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[earthbound14]

So I kind of hate teaching past continuous. It's hard to explain and the worst the topics usually suck

Any one got a really good topic for teaching this?

So far I'm using injuries:

As in
I was skiing when I fell and broke my arm.

Now I'm hoping my students have had lots of injuries....then it will be fun, other wise this will be one dead class

As in
I was studying English yesterday when I was accidentaly bored to death.

[Kimchieluver]

Make a bingo game on MS Word or Hwp. Speak out the first sentence and then they have to figure out which part of their bingo sheet correlates with the first half.
For example. I was driving my car... they have to figure out 'when I got in an accident"

Sorry this is just off the top of my head.

[bogey666]

presenting the past continuous with the simple past and something that happened at a specific time/moment is a good way to contrast the two.

"I was sleeping yesterday morning when the fruit truck drove by my window with its loudspeakers and I woke up. I was so angry I wanted to kill the driver but then went back to sleep".

I was standing in line yesterday when an adjumma bumped and cut in front of me.

I was walking home when I slipped and fell on a loogie on the sidewalk.

I was trying to catch a quick nap when you so rudely interrupted me early by saying "Englishee room.... open..."

[Tobias]