Question

design an activity to teach past perfect continuous tense to yours learners at the elementary level.​

Answer 1

Activity to Teach Past Perfect Continuous Tense to Learners

Explanation:

• Past perfect continuous tense is used to describe an action that started in the past and went on to another point in the past. For example: I had been dancing for two hours when mother arrived. In this sentence I began dancing two hours before mother arrived and stopped dancing when mother arrived. Here the action 'dance' started in the past and ended in the past.

• The activity given below will help you to teach PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE to your learners.

• Activity: How Long?

• Material Required: Chits of paper.

• Participation: Whole class.

• Procedure: Past Perfect Continuous Tense describes an activity with the help of time. The tense is used to stress the amount of time a person was doing an action before another action began.
• Write down different lengths of time (for example: three years, one day, two hours etc) on chits of paper.
• Now ask students to come and form sentences with the chit they get. For example: If a student gets 'five minutes' the sentence could be I had been on the phone for five minutes when the door bell rang.
• Motivate students to participate and form sentences using the formula Subject + had + been + verb + ing