Games for teaching present continuous

This student will then act out the word. When they guess correctly, show the next word for the student to act out. After 30 seconds check how many words they guessed correctly.

Once students have been shown how to make present progressive sentences, this guessing game is a great way to practice. Play the video in class. There are 10 questions. After each question, students are shown a picture which is hidden behind some colored shapes. Present progressive words included in this game are swimming, eating, running, jumping, watching, listening, reading, drawing, playing, and dancing. This simple no prep game is a great way to get your students speaking and making present continuous sentences.

One by one students should make a sentence, and if they repeat something already said, or they cannot make a sentence, they are out. Put students into small groups and give them a simple situation for them to write a role play about. The role play should include a narrator who describes what the people are doing in the role play using present progressive sentences. Present Continuous Practice. Here is a useful present continuous tense worksheet for elementary students to use in class.

First, students read how to use the present continuous tense and review the structure. Students then read a set of situations and write down what they would say in the present continuous.

After that, students complete a set of voice mail messages by writing verbs in brackets in the present continuous.

Students then write their own message about what is happening in the class right now. To finish off, students correct mistakes in sentences and rewrite them. What are they doing? This present continuous activity helps to teach students how to ask what people are doing and reply using the present continuous tense. To begin, students write present continuous sentences, describing what people in pictures are doing. After that, in pairs, students ask and answer questions about what the people in the pictures are doing.

Finally, students take it in turns to ask and answer questions about what other people in the class are doing. What's happening? Here is a useful present continuous board game for elementary students. In pairs, students take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter along the board. When a student lands on a picture square, their partner asks them a question about what is happening in the picture, e.

If the student does this successfully, they stay on the square. If the student makes a grammar mistake or can't think of what to say, they go back two spaces.

The first student to reach the finish wins the game. Guess what I'm doing. This free present continuous miming game can be used with pre-intermediate students. The aim of the game is for the students in the teams to guess present continuous sentences from mimes. All the sentences are present continuous affirmative sentences beginning with 'You are The student asks the class 'What am I doing? When a member on either team thinks they know what the student is doing, they call out their answer by making a present continuous sentence.

If it is correct, the student scores a point for their team. Then, a student from the other team comes to the front of the class and so on. On the Roof. In this intriguing present continuous activity, students write present continuous sentences in English and their native language and then try to find matching translations that other students have written. Ask the students to imagine that there is a man on the roof.

The students then write ten reasons why he is on the roof in the present continuous tense on their worksheet, e. The students write the first sentence in English. The second sentence is in the student's native language. The third is in English, and so on. Next, students cut their sentences into strips.

The students' task is to find accurate translations or semi-translations of what they have written. The students move around the classroom reading their sentences to each other.

When two students find they have an accurate translation or semi-translation of a sentence, they write the other student's name down on the strip.

The student with the most accurate translations or semi-translations wins. Afterwards, the students go through the present continuous sentences and matching translations as a class and discuss any differences in meaning. Present Continuous. This present continuous worksheet helps students learn how the present continuous tense is used to describe temporary situations, unfinished actions happening now and future plans.

Students start by completing sentences with the present continuous form of the verbs in brackets. Students then sort the sentences into columns, according to what each sentence describes. Next, students match the sentences with corresponding pictures.

After that, students unscramble present continuous sentences. Lastly, students create true present continuous sentences about themselves to describe the three uses of the present continuous. Present Continuous Party. Download all the materials you need for this lesson in the box below. Check out the bottom of the page for additional games and activities to teach the present continuous progressive tense to beginners.

To warm up and to introduce the present continuous tense to students, start off by listening to a fun song. This song by the Silly Billy Band is perfect for this lesson and kids find it very funny. After the song, ask students what present continuous words they can remember and write them on the board. Next, put these words in context. The present continuous tense describes actions that are taking place at the time of speaking. So, the best and easiest way to demonstrate this to students is to act out the present continuous verb as you are saying it.

Do the same with the other present continuous verbs from the song. As you are saying and acting out the sentences, ask the students to do the same. To introduce the basic structure of the key sentences, play the song one more time. Using these present continuous flashcards practice the key words by showing the flashcards and asking students to repeat after you. Then, ask students to try to say the words on their own. Then ask students to look closer at the flashcards and ask them if they see or a boy or a girl.

Pass the ball is a great classroom game to practice the present continuous tense.