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Past Progressive (When and While) INFORMATION QUESTIONS

Past Progressive Information QUESTION Form

Information Question Formula:
Wh-word + Was/Were + subject + verb-ing+complement?

Instructions: Listen to the audio and repeat the sentences.

1. What were you doing at 3 PM yesterday?
2. Where was she going when you saw her?
3. Why were they shouting during the game?
4. When was he studying for his exams?
5. How were the children getting home from school?
6. Who was cooking dinner last night?
7. What were we discussing in the meeting yesterday?
8. Where was the dog sitting when it started to rain?
9. How was she traveling to work during the strike?
10. What were your parents watching on TV last evening?

‘WH’ Questions / Past Progressive Tense

This guide helps you learn ‘WH’ questions like “Who,” “What,” “Where,” and more using the past progressive tense. Each ‘WH’ word is shown in bold with a simple focus word, like “place” for “Where” or “reason” for “Why.” Then, there’s an easy example for each, like “What were you doing?” This is good for beginners to practice making questions about past actions. It’s fun and easy to understand!

1. Who (Person) – Who was speaking at the meeting?
2. What (Activity/Thing) – What were you cooking?
3. Where (Place) – Where were they going?
4. What time (Time) – What time were you doing your homework yesterday?”
5. Why (Reason) – Why were you running so fast?”
6. Which (Choice) – Which movie were you watching?
7. How much/many (Quantity) – How many cookies were you baking?
8. How long (Duration) – How long were you waiting in line at the store?
9. How often (Frequency) – How often were you exercising each week last year?
10. How come (Informal Reason) – How come you were feeling so upset yesterday?

Do the following quiz, choose the correct form of the verb to be, after that do the audio practice.

Note: Listen to the audio and repeat after listening, you should pause the audio after each sentence.
Nota: escucha el audio y repite despues de escuchar, debes pausar el audio despues de cada oracion.

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Need more practice? Do quiz 2, choose the correct answer, after that do the audio practice.

Note: Listen to the audio and answer the scenario as the questions need you to do after listening, you should pause the audio after each question.
Nota: Escucha el audio y responde al escenario como las preguntas te lo indican después de escuchar. Debes pausar el audio después de cada pregunta

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Past progressive 1

Add was or were to the 10 sentences in this quiz

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