Video Transcript
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
In this video, we will learn how to
use the words “yesterday,” “today,” and “tomorrow” to describe when events
occur.
Today is the day which is happening
now. Yesterday is the day before
today. Yesterday is in the past; it’s
already happened. Tomorrow is the day after
today. Tomorrow hasn’t happened yet; it’s
in the future. So today is the day which is
happening now. Yesterday is the day that happened
before today. And tomorrow is the day that comes
after today.
If it’s Thursday today, what day
was it yesterday? We know that yesterday is the day
before today. The day before Thursday is
Wednesday. So yesterday, it was Wednesday. If today is Thursday, yesterday was
Wednesday, then tomorrow must be Friday. Tomorrow is the day after
today.
Let’s try some questions now to
help us practice using the words “yesterday,” “today,” and “tomorrow.”
Here are Matthew’s weekly
activities. Today is Sunday. What activity will he do today? Will he go to the park, go
swimming, or play on the computer? What day was it yesterday?
We’re shown a chart of Matthew’s
weekly activities. On Mondays, he goes to the
park. On Tuesday, he reads a book. On Wednesday, he walks the dog. On Thursday, he plays football. On Friday, he has a music
lesson. On Saturday, he goes swimming. And on Sunday, he plays on the
computer. The first part of the question
tells us that today, it is Sunday. What activity does he do on
Sunday? We can tell from the chart that on
Sundays, Matthew plays on the computer. So if today is Sunday, the activity
he will do is play on the computer.
The second part of the question
asks us what day it was yesterday. We know that yesterday is the day
that comes before today. And we know that today, it’s
Sunday. The day before Sunday is
Saturday. If today’s Sunday, Matthew will
play on the computer. And yesterday was Saturday.
The table shows the weather
conditions this week. Yesterday, it was cloudy. What will the weather tomorrow
be?
We’re shown the weather conditions
for this week in a table. On Monday, it will be sunny. And it will be sunny on Tuesday as
well. On Wednesday, it will be
cloudy. On Thursday, it will be rainy. It’s going to be stormy on Friday,
sunny on Saturday, and rainy on Sunday. We’re not told what the day is
today, but we know that yesterday it was cloudy. On which day was it cloudy? It was cloudy on Wednesday. So we know that yesterday was
Wednesday because it was cloudy on Wednesday. We know that yesterday is the day
that comes before today. If it was Wednesday yesterday, it
must be Thursday today.
Now that we know it’s Thursday
today, we can work out what the weather will be tomorrow. Today’s Thursday; tomorrow is
Friday. And the weather on Friday is
stormy. The weather tomorrow will be
stormy. Yesterday it was Wednesday. Today it’s Thursday. Tomorrow it’s Friday. And the weather tomorrow will be
stormy.
What have we learned in this
video? We’ve learned how to use the words
“yesterday,” “today,” and “tomorrow” to describe when events occur.
