Present Continuous games, worksheets, stories, video activities and songs

About 67 Present Progressive for actions in progress PDFs and teaching ideas. For the future arrangements meaning see here. If you find anything useful here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.

Teaching Present Continuous articles

with Present Continuous game ideas

35 fun classroom practice activities for Present Continuous

15 games for the Present Continuous (mainly for the present meaning)

The two Present Continuous blocks games in the 18th section of this article

Useful language for Present Continuous lists

Words with doubled consonants before -ing listed by level

Present Continuous index pages

Present Continuous songs page

Present Continuous video activities/ worksheets page

Present Continuous miming worksheets (including a section on the similar activity of making noises, and miming for contrasting both present tenses)

Photocopiable Present Continuous classroom activities

Good and taboo Present Continuous questions

Present Continuous telephoning practice (in this really cheap e-book)

Gestures cultural differences Present Continuous mimes and answer key

Present Continuous small talk 

Who is …ing Present Continuous subject questions dice drawing games

Present Continuous plasticine shapes games

Actions in different places Present Continuous guessing game

Clothes and Present Continuous drawing game

Food present continuous pictionary

Present Continuous accusations (for young learners, but adaptable for adults)

Good boy/ Naughty boy projects (for young learners)

Trying to get through (put the telephone conversations where someone is trying desperately to talk to someone in order, then do the same thing in pairs)

Present Continuous hobbies mimes (for young learners)

Present Continuous travel mimes

Technical English mimes

Business English Present Continuous mimes

Telephoning hold on mimes

Present Continuous vocabulary revision mimes (for New Cutting Edge Intermediate, but you could easily adapt the idea for your own classes)

Present Continuous sound impressions (for young learners)

Business English Present Continuous sounds and mimes

Present Continuous Classroom language sounds

Noises mimes (including expressing purpose)

Spelling code game (general worksheet, useful for doubling of letters – or not – in ing forms, plus maybe contractions of be)

Mr Bean The Department Store Present Continuous video worksheets

Mr Bean Meets the Queen Present Continuous video worksheets

Mr Bean The Library Present Continuous video worksheets

Mr Bean The Exam Present Continuous video worksheets

Cutting Edge Intermediate Modules 1 to 4 vocabulary Present Continuous mimes

Combining Present Continuous with other language worksheets

Present Continuous and like with ing Xmas questions games

Present Continuous and special occasions phrases (guessing what is happening when you hear “Bon voyage etc, so great for adding some functional language to this grammar)

Feelings and Present Continuous memory games

Medical English Present Continuous mimes

Present Continuous and prepositions of position drawing dice game

Present Continuous and like with -ing sounds and questions

Present Continuous and like with ing personalised speaking dice game

Present progressive and prepositions of position mix and match

Present Continuous and prepositions of position drawing game

Weather, clothes, times and Present Continuous mix and match

Present Continuous and Present Perfect Continuous guessing game (to practise the rarely pointed out similarities between those two tenses)

Present Continuous stories

One Moment around the world (on LearnEnglishKids)

Related pages

Present Simple and Continuous page (for contrasting the two tenses and using them together)

Business present tenses page (some specific to Present Continuous)

Present Continuous for future arrangements page

Updated 29 February 2024

1 Response to Present Continuous games, worksheets, stories, video activities and songs

  1. Hitesh says:

    Very good resources. Thanks for sharing..

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