Unit 24 What were they doing?

Lesson 93

And

Lesson 95

• Word study

Add –ing to the following verbs.

1. ask —

look —

carry —

asking

looking

carrying

2. close —

take —

ride —

closing

taking

riding

3. swim —

get —

sit —

swimming

getting

sitting

4. put —

begin —

travel—

putting

beginning

travelling

Leading-in What are they doing?

She is reading.

He is cooking.

They are dancing.

They are playing basketball.

Han Mei is drawing a cat.Jim is drawing a lion.Li Lei is drawing an elephant.The twins are drawing a car. Act in pairs

What is Li Lei drawing? He is drawing an elephant?

Ask and answer It’s Monday. The students are drawing some pictures on the blackboard. What are they drawing?

Read and act How about Li Lei’s drawing?

It is quite a nice painting.

What is Li Lei doing?He is trying to draw an elephant.

What does the teacher think about the elephant?

Does Li Lei want to be a painter in the future?

What must he do if he wants to be a painter?

It’s quite a nice elephant.

Yes, he does.

He must work harder.

He is trying to draw well.

He is quite a good painter.

Talk about the pictures.

She is trying to jump far.

She is quite a good jumper.

He is trying to play well.

He is quite a good player.

It is now Wednesday. Do you remember?

What was Li Lei doing when the teacher came in?

He was drawing an elephant.

On Monday ...

What was Han Mei doing when the teacher came in?

She was drawing a cat.

What was Jim doing when the teacher came in?

He was drawing a lion.

What were the twins doing when the teacher came in?

They were drawing a car.

Li Lei

What was Jim

Han Mei

What were the twins

when the teacher came in?

drawing

Lan

guage

poin

ts

The Continuous Tense

amis are

＋ V.ing

The Past Continuous Tense

waswere

＋ V. ing

Read and learn

Summary:

1.quite a/an+adj.+n.

2.try to do sth.

3.I hope so.

4.What was he drawing on?

= Where was he drawing?

• 从 It’s quite a nice...浅谈 quite的用法• quite 的意思是“相当；完全地”，是一

个副词，但它很特殊。它不但能修饰动词、形容词、副词、分词，还能修饰名词、介词短语等。

• 一、 quite 修饰形容词、副词等。例如： • She is quite right ．她完全正确。 • This is quite impossible ．这是完全不可能

的。 • I know how to use the machine quite well ．

我完全知道怎么使用这台机器。 • He worked quite hard ．他工作很努力。

• 二、 quite 修饰名词。 • 1 ．当名词前没有形容词修饰时， quite 要放在

冠词前。例如： • quite a lot （许多）， quite a time （很长一段

时间）， quite an effort （很大努力）， quite a while （一段相当长的时间）， quite a few （相当多）， quite a little （相当多；大量的）

• 2 ．当名词前有形容词修饰时， quite 可放在冠词前，也可放在冠词之后，但放在冠词之前较普遍。例如：

• He is quite a clever boy ．（较普遍） • 或 He is a quite clever boy ．他是一个相当聪明

的孩子。

• 三、 quite 与 not 连用，常构成“ not quite” 结构，表示部分否定，意思是“没有完全……”。例如：

• She is not quite well ．她没有完全康复。 • I don't quite understand the problem ．我并

没有完全理解这道题。 • 四、“完全一样”要用 exactly the same ，

不用 quite the same 。“不完全一样”可说 not quite the same 。

• 五、“完全赞同”可说 quite agree ，但反义一般不说 quite disagree 。

What was/were he/she/they doing?

Practice

Ask and answer like this in pairs

What were you doing

last night?last Saturday?at ten o’clock?yesterday morning?at noon yesterday?Yesterday afternoon?

I was

We were

cooking a meal.playing volleyball.having a PE class.watching TV.working in the chemistry lab.washing dishes.making a model plane.feeding my dog.sweeping the floor.

Ask and answer

PracticeYesterday: Li Lei

9:00 10:20 noon

reading playing football

12:00 1:40 4:40

having a rest shopping with Jim

A: What was Li Lei doing at half past nine yesterday morning?

B: He was reading.

Ask and answer in pairs.

What was/were Lucy and Lily/the boy/… doing yesterday morning when it rained heavily?

What were the children and other people doing?

The man was selling the fruit.

Practice One Sunday morning the man upstairs heard the

sound of children playing in the park. What did he see when he looked out of his wind

ow. Look at the picture. （图片）

1. What was the man in the building doing?

2. What were the man by the lake doing?

3. What was the man in the park doing?

4. What were the girls doing? What were the boys doing?

Questions.

Try to write a composition about the picture.

One Sunday morning the man upstairs heard the sound of children playing in the park. He looked out of the window. He saw a man was selling fruit and a woman was buying. Some boys were playing foot on the ground happily. Some girls were playing cards . Two women were reading newspapers on a chairs near the lake. Some people were fishing near the lake. He saw some young men were boating on the lake, too. How happy they were!

Exercise Fill in the blanks with proper tenses:• 1.While I______________(peel) potatoes, I

_______ (cut) my thumb.• 2.We just________(go) out when some

friends________(call) to see us.• 3. When he was a child he_______(live) in the

country.• 4. While Judy and I _____________ (wash) up,

she ________ (ask) me to be quiet as our neighbors_____________(sleep).

was peeling cut

went called

lived

were washing asked

were sleeping

Exercise

补全对话：A: What you doing at 8 o’clock yesterday evening?

B: I a panda the wall some chalk.

A: Did your mother see it?

B: Yes. She saw it and said,“It’s a nice panda.”

But please don’t the chalk, and don’t on the wall.

were

was drawing on with

quite

play withdraw

Thank you !