1. Positive – Negative - Question
Past Continuous
Positive – Negative - Question

2. Past Continuous - Use
We can use the Past Continuous to talk about an activity in progress at a point of time in the past:
- Yesterday at 9 o’clock I was watching TV.
(I started watching TV before 9 o’clock and continued watching after 9 o’clock)

3. Yesterday at 9pm I was watching TV.
Affirmative:
Yesterday at 9pm I was watching TV.
I You
He was We were
She They It
You were watching a movie.
She was sitting in the living room.
was Verb(ing)
were

4. What were they doing yesterday at 9pm?
The baby / sleep
Jack / play computer games

5. Yesterday at 9 pm the baby was sleeping.
Yesterday at 9 pm Jack was playing computer games.

6. The action began before 9pm and continued after that time.
Baby sleeping

7. What were you doing yesterday at 9pm?
Were you sleeping?
Were you having dinner?
Were you watching TV?
Were you playing?
Were you washing your teeth?

8. Question word + was/were + subject + Ving
I you
Was He Were we
She they It
Was he cleaning the house?
Were you talking on the phone?
Where were they going?
Question word + was/were + subject + Ving

9. Question auxiliary subj. V+ing
word
Where was he going?
Who were they talking to?
What were they doing when …
What was Sam doing when …

10. We weren’t reading the magazine. He wasn’t listening to her.
Negative:
I You
He wasn’t We weren’t
She They It
We weren’t reading the magazine.
He wasn’t listening to her.
wasn’t Ving
weren’t

11. Look at the pictures and make sentences… What were they doing yesterday at 2pm?
Samuel
The father and the kid
The children
Ricky

12. The father and the kid were reading.
Samuel was playing tennis.
The children were playing.
Ricky was having lunch.

13. Well Done!