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English as a Second Language (ESL)

Extra Exercises: Past Simple and Past Continuous with When/While

Writing - English Language

  • When you finish the exercises, click “Finish!” and choose “Email my answers to my teacher.”
  • Then type your full name, group, school subject, and the teacher’s key code.

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When & While

Vocabulary - English Language

Choose the suitable word 

Past tenses and narrative expressions

Grammar - English Language

Practice simple past, past continuous, and past perfect simple within a story. Identifying narrative expressions such as eventually, once upon a time, when, while, suddenly, after, before.

Past S and Past C

Grammar - English Language

Task Write sentences with when/while and the prompts

When and While (2)

Grammar - ESL

Change the verbs in the brackets using the simple past or past continuous form.

Past simple and past continuous with When and While

Reading Comprehension - English Language

Past simple and past continuous with When and While

When,While

Reading and Text Analysis - English Language

Read the text and answer the questions

When and While

English language

Simple Past-Past Continuous

English as a Second Language (ESL)

Matching exercise and completing sentences

WHEN / WHILE

WHEN / WHILE

WHEN / WHILE 

When While Exercise

English as a Second Language (ESL)

Use When While in a sentence

Grammar

English language

when and while grammar

CLUES - WORKSHEET

Inglés

WHEN - WHILE

when

when&while

It's an Emergency

Reading Comprehension - English Language

  • Read the text carefully. Look at the sequence of events in the emergency.

  • Identify the two types of actions in each sentence:

    • Long action (what was already happening → Past Continuous)

    • Short action (what happened suddenly → Past Simple)

  • Fill in the blanks with “when” or “while” correctly.

    • Use “while” for the long action in progress.

    • Use “when” for the short, sudden action that interrupts.

  • Check your answers: Does each sentence show clearly what was happening before and what happened suddenly?

5.2 Past Simple / Continuous

English as a Second Language (ESL)

Students complete sentences with "when" and "while" and the past continuous and past simple.  

Past simple & Past continuous (when / while)

English as a Second Language (ESL)

Complete with the correct form of the verbs in brackets( Past Simple and Past Continuous) and choose between in when / while when possible.

READING PASSAGE

Past Continuous

LESSON1B1-WRITING 1 english 5

english 5

Tarea de redaccion de texto breve, escribir una historia breve sobre un fin de semana utilizando when y while.

Extra Exercises: Past Simple and Past Continuous with When/While

Grammar - ESL

  • When you finish the exercises, click “Finish!” and choose “Email my answers to my teacher.”
  • Then type your full name, group, school subject, and the teacher’s key code.

***Teacher’s key code: McpEKsKoXH

Past simple and past continuous with When and While

Reading Comprehension - English Language

Past simple and past continuous with When and While

When or While?

Writing - English Language

Complete these tasks.

Past conitnuous while

English as a Second Language (ESL)

while when, past conti

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