While + Past Continuous + Past Simple Scrambled Sentences

(TESOL Worksheets--Past Continuous, Past Simple, While, Conjunctions)

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In my classes, I used this Slideshow Presentation to cover the grammar in English World 5 Unit 1 p.25.  Because English World 5 was presenting a very rigid form (While+ Past Continuous+ Past Simple) I tried to mimic their form exactly. 

This is a standard scrambled sentence game.  Before class, the teacher cuts up the cards and shuffles them.  Students are given a blank grid, and the cards, and a glue stick.  In pairs, they must arrange the cards on the grid to make sentences.

There are many different variations possible besides the way I wrote the cards, and I accept as correct any reasonable answer when doing this in class.  In some cases, students who come up with alternative formations will run out of the correct "was" or "were" cards, in which case I allow them to write in the missing word with a pen.

While	he	was	swimming	a shark	ate him
While	he	was	listening to music	the phone	rang
While	we	were	driving to work	we	saw a fire
While	I	was	eating lunch	I	heard the news
While	you	were	sleeping	I	stole your money
While	they	were	watching TV	a lion	came into the house
While	she	was	walking	a dog	bit her
While	I	was	studying	it	started to rain