🎬 What Were You Doing When...? Past Continuous

A2 Teens Lesson 07 introduces the past continuous through the cinematic theme of interrupted moments. The lesson opens with a warm-up that sets the mood with four 'What were you doing?' prompts anchored to specific past times. The grammar core has four parts: (1) the form with a central formula box and a was/were split grid showing subject pronouns with worked examples; (2) the crucial when-interrupted pattern with three narrative examples plus a visual timeline showing the long background action as a blue bar crossed by the sudden past-simple moment marked with a wine dot; (3) simultaneous actions with while using past continuous + past continuous; (4) negative and question forms side by side with patterns and examples. Vocabulary (10 items) focuses on narrative/dramatic words: suddenly, scream, notice, moment, whisper, meanwhile, power cut, freeze, bump into, background. The reading is a magazine feature titled 'The night something happened' with four interrupted-moment stories from teens in Argentina (power cut), New Zealand (midnight bang), Morocco (the message), and Italy (bumping into a teacher). Practice includes 8 multiple-choice questions with 5 color-coded hint tags (PC, PS, WHEN, WHILE, NEG/Q), a speaking task with 'What happened next?' follow-ups, an 80-100 word narrative writing task, and an 8-question quiz mixing form drills, tense-contrast decisions, and reading-comprehension.