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Hello everybody. Today we are going to look at some important aspects that you need to know about the past simple and the past continuous.

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First of all, I'm going to remind you how to make the past of the regular verbs.

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So when you have a regular verb, you only need to add "-ed at the end.

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Example play, played. Work, worked. And then we have this study, studied. Notice that the only thing that we've done is to change the Y into an I and then add ED. Study, studied.

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And then we have the irregular past tenses. In this case, the only way is to know your list.

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OK, we have given you a list that we will be looking at all through the year.

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An example of an irregular past will be go, went.

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Past simple, affirmative, negative and interrogative statements.

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ok here the first thing that you have to know is the verb that you are going to

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use or the verb that you have been given because a in most cases we will do it in

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the same way but there's one special case that it's different to all the

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others that is the verb to be now we are going to begin with all the other verbs

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that are not the verb to be here we have an example in the affirmative he

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traveled to New York traveled in the past so you see the ED no to make the

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negative we need an auxiliary verb in this case is the verb to do in the past

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did and what we do is to add not to the verb did he did not or he didn't in the

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short form travel to New York notice that here we do not longer use the past

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form we use the base or infinitive why because we can see the tense that is

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surpassed in here in the auxiliary verb that we need to make the negative and to

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make the interrogative we begin with our with our auxiliary verb did our subject

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he and then the verb in the base form. Did he travel to New York? And then we have the

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special case of the verb to be. The verb to be doesn't need an auxiliary verb. That is

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to say, do and be, the verb do or did, and the verb to be was where, can never go together.

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they are not friends

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ok

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so we don't need anything

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any auxiliary

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to make the negative

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or the interrogative

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when the verb used is to be

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example

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they were the best

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verb to be

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in the past

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the only thing we do in the negative

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is to add not

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at the end of the verb

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They were not the best, or in the short form, they weren't the best.

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And to make the interrogative, the only thing that we do is to swap places between where and they,

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between the verb and the subject.

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So we put the verb before the subject, in front of the subject.

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Were they the best?

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Great.

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Now let's see when do we use one or when do we use the other one.

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We use the past simple, for example, for past completed actions.

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We went to the zoo last week.

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For past habits or states, he really liked sports and was very fit.

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For actions that started and finished in the past, I played football for 20 years.

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so I don't play football anymore.

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And then an important use is the narrative use.

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Why is it important?

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Because we are going to write stories

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and you will need to use it a lot.

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So in this case, the past simple is used

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to tell the events of the story in chronological order.

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She opened the door, looked at us and went to her room.

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What about the past continuous? The past continuous is used to talk about actions in progress in a certain time in the past or at a certain point in the story.

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So yesterday at 10 p.m. I was sleeping because if I say yesterday only, OK, I could be using the simple past.

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But I'm talking about a specific moment in the past, in that yesterday.

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Yesterday at 10 p.m. I was sleeping.

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And then it also has a narrative use.

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But in this case, we will only use it at the beginning to set the scene, no?

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At the beginning of our story.

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It was getting dark and I was walking to my house when...

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Important.

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because when we give you exercises in which you have to decide

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whether to use the past simple or the past continuous,

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you will be having some words that can give you the clue

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of when to use one or the other one.

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The word yesterday will tell you that you have to use the simple past.

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Yesterday I went to the cinema.

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Last, last month, last week, last year, last century, last Monday

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In that case we also use the past simple

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We met last month

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For days, months, years

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We also use the past simple

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We watched the movie in October

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We watched the movie on Monday

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We watched the movie in 1961

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I don't know

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with the word ago we visited granny three days ago

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we visited granny two months ago

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we visited granny seven weeks ago

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we cannot put ago by itself

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it needs okay something

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that tells us the time that has passed

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ago so we cannot say we visited granny

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ago and that's it no you need

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time when they were playing tennis when

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he broke his leg so in these cases

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you will be having a

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past continuous before when because it's the action

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in progress and that action is interrupted

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by another action that he broke his leg

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So they have finished the match, the tennis match.

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Past continuous, while.

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While we were having a picnic, it started to rain.

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Okay, so while will lead you to a past continuous, to an action in progress.

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While we were doing this, another person was doing this.

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Or while we were doing this, this happened.

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and the action is also interrupted

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and then at followed by time

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at 6 o'clock I was having dinner

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and well this is all for today