1. The children were playing football the whole day yesterday.
2. - What were you doing when your friends came? - I was reading a play by A. Chekhov.
3. When Peter was going home yesterday, he met Jane.
4. We were having dinner when my elder brother came home from university.
5. We were discussing our plans for the summer holiday the whole evening yesterday.
6. Peter was looking through the newspapers while Ann was watching TV.
7. You were translating the article the whole evening yesterday, weren't you? - Yes, I was. There were plenty of new words I had to look up in the dictionary.
8. Where did you meet Ann? - I met her near the library when I was going home yesterday.