What were you doing yesterday

What did you do vs What were you doing

Chstavridis

New Member

Exercise: What ____ you ____ (do) yesterday morning? I ____ (study) for an exam.

I’m a little confused about which tense to use in the first part of this sentence. I know that the correct answer is to use Past Continuous:

Correct answer: What were you doing (do) yesterday morning? I was studying (study) for an exam.

But, why grammatically is wrong to use Past Simple?

What did you do (do) yesterday morning? I was studying (study) for an exam.

Uncle Jack

Senior Member

For the answer, «was studying» is more likely for something that occupied a relatively long period of time so recently.

Xyz123456

Senior Member

«I was walking to school when I saw the dog.»

But the difference between the past continuous and simple past when they have no other information attached to them is sometimes very subtle in English and not easy to explain to a learner. Especially because (as with so much in English grammar) we often ignore the rules.

For example: a mother comes home and sees rubbish all over the house. She says to her son «The house is a complete mess! What were you doing here yesterday?!» Unfortunately it means (in practical terms) almost the exact same thing as «The house is a complete mess! What did you do here yesterday?!» What she wants to know is simply what happened.

The clearest way to separate them is to use examples where you must use only one type of past tense because more information is requested or added in the sentence:

This question MUST be answered with the past continuous because she is asking what was happening at the time she phoned. Her son cannot reply «I ate dinner when you phoned»; he has to reply «I was eating dinner when you phoned». Again- an event in the past (eating) was occurring when another event occurred in the past (the mother phoned the house).

So the problem with your sentences is simply that there isn’t enough added information for you to decide if a sentence is wrong or right- it completely depends on a) how the questioned is asked, and b) understanding WHY a question is being asked. Is it «wrong» to answer a question posed in the past continuous form with a simple past answer? Yes. But do we do it anyway? Yes. Because sometimes it is a way to tell someone to «Mind your own business».

Q. Suspicious mother: «What were you doing today?» (Because I think you were wasting time instead of doing your studies)
A. Annoyed son: I studied then went out (Mind your own business).

When I say it’s subtle I do mean «subtle»- let’s say a jealous woman goes away on business and leaves her husband alone for a week. If she asks «What we’re you doing while I was away?» you can assume from the context that what she means is «Are you having an affair?» If she asked «What did you do while I was away?» It sounds more like a genuine, simple question. The problem is the husband might decide to answer BOTH types of the question only with the simple past.

But be aware- we often play around with these rules when telling someone about an event that took place:

«So I’m sitting there eating my dinner when suddenly the doorbell rings. «

In grammatically correct English this ought to be : «So I was sitting there eating my dinner when suddenly the doorbell rang. «

Don’t worry- most languages have these issues and we all have to go through it. In Persian the past subjunctive is a nightmare for an English-speaker to learn.

Best advice: read as many past continuous phrases online as possible. Detective novels are a great source for the English past tense because they involve so much dialogue about the past. Agatha Christie!

There is a huge difference in English between «The correct use of tenses» and «How we actually use tenses». Learn the formal «correct» versions but be prepared to hear the idiomatic versions and why we use them.

What were you doing yesterday?

The theme What were you doing yesterday?

Past continiose tense tobe was, were

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«What were you doing yesterday?»

______________ VILOYATI _________ TUMANI XALQ TA’LIMI BO’LIMIGA QARASHLI

___-SONLI O’RTA TA”LIM MAKTABI

INGLIZ TILI FANI O’QITUVCHISI

_______________________________NING
6-sinflar uchun Unit 6. Lesson 1
What did you do yesterday?

mavzusida 1 soatlik

Date_____ Form_____ Subject: English

Theme: What did you do yesterday?

— to enable pupils to write and act out dialogues;

— to enable pupils to listen for specific information.

Learning outcomes: At the end of the lesson pupils will be able to:

— talk about different activities;

— listen for specific information;

— write and act out dialogues.

Competence: SC1, FLCC, and PC

Type of the lesson: Mixed, group work, pair-work, individual work

Method of the lesson: nontraditional, mixed

Equipment of the lesson: Textbook “New Fly High 6”, pictures, internet, computers, projector

TECHNOLOGICAL MAP OF THE LESSON:

Part of the lesson

-to greet pupils.

— to check up the register

Repeating last lesson

— to give pupils some questions about last lesson. – to ask words from previous lesson

Explaining new theme

— to explain to pupils new vocabulary and theme

Consolidating new theme.

— to consolidate new theme and new words of the theme.

Procedure of the lesson:

I. Organizing moment: Motivation, Greeting, checking attendance, season, weather, checking the preparation for the lesson.

— Check for homework given on past lesson.

— Ask pupils all new words learnt on previous lesson.

Activity 1 Listen and repeat. 5 min

Objectives: to introduce the unit topic;

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to listen to the song and say what this song is about. Play the DVD.

STEP 2: Play the DVD again and ask them to repeat the song.

Did you visit your grandparents? (Tune of “Mary had a little lamb”)

Did you visit your grandparents,

Your grandfather, your grandmother?

Did you sweep and mop the floor?

Yes, of course I did.

Did you help them in the kitchen,

In the bathroom, in the bedroom?

Did you help them clean the rooms?

Yes, of course I did.

Did you help them in the garden?

Did you water plants and flowers?

Did you help them in the garden?

Yes, of course I did.

Activity 2 Play “Miming”. 10 min

Objectives: to recycle the previously learnt vocabulary;

to give practice in talking about different activities

STEP 1: Get the pupils to read the activities in the cloud.

STEP 2: Demonstrate the activity before the class as shown in the example.

STEP 3: When everybody understands what to do, you can let the pupils mime and guess.

Activity 3 Listen and match the dialogues and pictures. 15 min

Objectives: to listen for specific information;

to practise speaking

STEP 1: Explain that a reporter asks different people the same question.

They answer. The pupils must listen to the answers and find the pictures.

STEP 2: Ask the pupils to look at the pictures carefully and answer your questions. Ask them about the people in the pictures, where they are and what they are doing.

STEP 3: Ask the pupils to listen and match. Play the DVD two times.

Answer key: 1) e; 2) c; 3) b; 4) a; 5) d

1) A: What did you do yesterday?

B: I stayed at home yesterday. I watched TV with my sister.

B: It was interesting.

2) A: What did you do yesterday?

B: I visited my grandparents yesterday. I helped them in the garden.

A: How are your grandparents?

B: They’re fine. They were happy to see me.

3) A: What did you do yesterday?

B: I went shopping with my sister yesterday.

A: What did you buy?

B: I bought new jeans.

4) A: What did you do yesterday?

B: Uh, let’s see. We cooked a cake with my mum.

B: It was delicious.

5) A: What did you do yesterday?

B: We went to the park.

A: What did you do there?

B: We flew kites.

Activity 4a Work in pairs. Read and write your dialogue. 7 min

Objective: to practise writing dialogues

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to read the examples and the activities and the adjectives in the clouds individually.

STEP 2: Ask the pupils to work in pairs. Explain that they must discuss and write a dialogue using the words in the clouds.

Activity 4b Act your dialogue out. 7 min

Objectives: to give practice in acting out dialogues;

to develop speaking skills

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to act out their dialogues in pairs.

STEP 2: You can ask as many pairs as time allows to act out their dialogues for the class.

Ask the pupils to look at the homework on Page 100. Check that everybody understands what to do with the task. If necessary, explain how to do the homework.

VII. Evaluation. Giving marks

Конспект урока на тему:”What were you doing at 10 p.m. yesterday?”

The aims of the lesson:

more information about it;

writing and speaking comprehension with doing different

exercises.And develop to use their knowledge in practice;

the pupils’ interest to the subject.

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«конспект урока на тему:”What were you doing at 10 p.m. yesterday?”»

Бекітемін 13.12.2012 year

_________ Form: 6 ”G”

«___» __________2012ж. Place:# 307

Time: 14.50(2nd lesson)

Teacher: Abzhapparova F.T.

The theme of the lesson:”What were you doing at 10 p.m. yesterday?”

The aims of the lesson:

educational aim: introduce pupils with the new grammatical material give

more information about it;

developing aim: developing pupils’ skills and habits in listening,reading,

writing and speaking comprehension with doing different

exercises.And develop to use their knowledge in practice;

cultural aim: to train children be active and honest all their life,to arise

the pupils’ interest to the subject.

The type of the lesson: demonstrative lesson

The method of the lesson: explain,question-response,individual work.

Visual aids: interactive board,pictures,placards,tape-recorder.

The outline of the lesson

b) Checking up attendance.

2.Phonetic drill exercise.

3.Checking up hometask.

4.Introduction of the new material.

a)Explain grammatical theme compare Present Continuous

and Past Continuous Tenses,how to make their question form.

5.Doing exercises using the interactive board:

a) Put sentences in the questional form;

b) Work with picture;

7.Resting time(sing a song “Hippety Hope to the corner shop”)

8.Giving hometask ex 1p.55(AB)

10.Conclusion of the lesson “Test”.

11.The end of the lesson.

The procedure of lesson

— Good afternoon, pupils!

-Good afternoon, teacher!

-How do you do? How are you?

-We`re fine, thanks. And you?

-I`m ok. Thank you, sit down.

b) Checking up attendance:

-Who is on duty today?

-I`m on duty today.

-All are present.

-What date is it today?

-Today is the 13 th of December.

-What day of the week?

c) Phonetic drill:

Were you walking your funny cat?

Were you using the internet?

Were you watching a film with friends?

Were you at school?

I don`t understand?

I wasn`t walking my funny cat.

And I wasn`t using the Internet.

And I wasn`t watching a boring film.

I was doing a very exciting thing.

II.Checking up hometask

-I`ll check up your hometask. Ex.2 p.132

Open your copybooks

III.Introduction of the new material

-Our today`s theme “grammatical theme”

As Present Continuous and Past Continuous Tenses and

How to make their questional form.

Present Continuous Tense Past Continuons Tense

Урок на тему «What were you doing at 5 yesterday? (Что ты делал вчера в 5?)»

Тема : What were you doing at 5 yesterday? (Что ты делал вчера в 5?)

Цели: развитие навыков говорения.

Тип урока: урок обобщения и повторения

Методы и приемы : наглядный, словесно-логический, метод упражнений, похвала.

Оборудование: презентация, карточка №1, карточки для групповых работ, карточка с тестом.

1. Организационный момент

Teacher: Good morning!

Pupils: Good morning!

T: And now turn and greet our guests, please.

P: Good morning, guests!

T: Sit down, please!

Who is on duty today?

P1: I am on duty today.

T: What date is it today?

P2: Today is the 20 th of February

T: Who is absent?

P1: … is/are absent./ All are present.

T: Thank you. Sit down, please.

Look at the sentences and make up a question to them.

Diana was reading the book at 5 yesterday.

Paul was playing football at 5 yesterday.

Clare was cooking food at 5 yesterday.

Jay was decorating her room at 5 yesterday.

They were doing homework at 5 yesterday.

Answer : What were they doing at 5 yesterday?

Today we’ll discuss what you were doing at 5 yesterday. So the problem of our lesson is “What were you doing at 5 yesterday?”

What are the aims of our lesson? Try to name them.

— To revise Past Progressive, its using, signal words and forming;

— To revise Past Simple.

4. Проверка домашнего задания

Last lesson we spoke about Past Simple. Let’s check up your hometask ( ex1 2), p77 AB)

1. I watched a lot of Russian cartoons.

2. We visited a lot of museums.

3. We went on exciting excursions.

4. I took some rides in Gorky Park.

5. I learnt to cook some traditional Russian food.

6. I bought a lot of souvenirs in the Detsky Mir Shop.

How many points have you got? (for every right answer you get 2 points)

Who have got 10-12 points?

Who have got 6-8 points.

5. Совершенствование грамматических навыков ( Past Progressive )

1) Answer my questions.

-When do we use it?

Answer: when we speak about the action that was in the Past in a certain moment ;

— What signal words do you know?

Answer: At that moment – в тот момент

All day long – целый день

— How is it formed?

Answer: be and the verb with the ending –ing.

2) Card 1.Work in a chain. Try to answer the question: “What were you doing at 5 yesterday?” Use the words from your card.

Play tennis, have breakfast, ride a bike, cook tasty meal, decorate my room, clean my room, help my parents, water flowers, play computer games, do homework, read an interesting book, dance.

Model : I was playing the piano at 5 yesterday.

Now you will be divided into groups.

The 1 st group will work with cards in pairs. We have 2 pairs. Make up the dialogue about what you were doing all evening long yesterday.

You have a dialogue. Fill in the gaps with the correct verb forms.

1. Where …(was/were) you at 5 yesterday? 1. I …(was/were) playing football.

2. … (was/were) you playing at school? 2. No. I … (was/were) not. I …

(was/were) playing at stadium.

Why …(was/were) you looking for me?

3. I …(was/were)playing football in the

yard at that moment and remembered you.

You have a dialogue. Fill in the gaps with the correct verb forms.

What …(was/were) you doing at that time? What …(was/were) you cooking?

2. I …(was/were) cooking a cake. My Mum 2. … (was/were) she at home too?

… (was/were) helping me.

The 2 nd group do ex 6, p99. This group is divided into pairs. Make up a dialogue using the word combinations and a model.

Write a little test. Choose the right variant.

1. He …having breakfast at 8 yesterday.

a) was b)were c) are

2. They … tennis at 6 yesterday.

a) was playing b)were playing c) was played

3. She … the book last week.

a)read b)reading c) were reading

4. I … at home at that time yesterday.

a) were b) was c) was being

5. O ни украшали комнату с 5 до 8 часов вчера.

a) They were decorate the room from 5 to 8 yesterday.

b) They was decorating the room from 5 to 8 yesterday.

c) They were decorating the room from 5 to 8 yesterday.

AB ex 1, p77-78. Fill in the gaps

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What were you doing at 5 yesterday?

Past Progressive tense

They were go ing to Abakan

when they saw an accident.

Они ехали в Абакан, когда увидели аварию.

I wasn’t play ing computer

yesterday at 3 o’clock.

yesterday at 5 o’clock?

a letter to her granny?

a letter yesterday at 5 o’clock?

Вопрос к подлежащему

1. Timothy (to feed) his dog.

2. Mr. Jones (to clean) his yard.

3. Nancy (to paint) her kitchen.

4. Jay (to choose) a present for his mother.

5. I(to make) a huge cake.

6. My mother (to shop) all day long.

7. What she (to do)? – She (to dance).

8. The children (to brush) their teeth.

9. What he (to do)? – He (to visit) his friends.

10. They (to have) a big dinner together.

11. The boys (to run) about the garden.

Hamley’s is a very famous toy shop in London. It has got seven floors.