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Welcome one more time to our English class.

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Today we're going to work on pages 17, 18 and 19 of our textbook.

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You have to work, by the way, to do the activities in the online book.

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As you can see, these pages deal with the review of past tenses.

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And to be more specific, with the past simple, past continuous and used to.

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So let's start.

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We're going to begin with the past simple and past continuous together.

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The past simple is this tense that we use for finished actions in the past.

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And particularly when we know, when we say or ask or know when they happened.

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What we have to do is to write the verb or to add an ed to the verb most of the time.

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Because there are also irregular verbs.

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which reminds me by the way that you have to know in further verso your

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irregular verbs you have to know the basics don't panic because most verbs

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aren't irregular but there are some that you have to know about so please make

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sure that you know them please revise them if you don't I'm sure you can find

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lists there's probably one in your book as in the internet you're gonna find

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plenty of lists of irregular verbs or ask me if you don't. Here you have some

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examples of sentences in the past simple. She was born in Berlin. They got married

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last year. On the way to Rome we stopped in Florence for the night.

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and then we've got a negative the first two were affirmative in the question so

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what do we have to focus on when we are writing a sentence in the negative form

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in the passive you have to remember that we use do but this time do goes in the

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past simple so write didn't and the main verb does not receive the ed now the

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main verb goes in the infinity form which reminds me by the way

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that in the past simple we have to add no s there are no changes for the verb

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with any of the persons something similar happens with the questions we

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use date, we write it before the subject, before you in this case, and then we

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write the main verb in the infinitive form. It would be redundant to write an

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ed now because the ed, the past, is already implied, is already shown in do.

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As for the past continuous, the past continuous, the form of the past

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continues is quite different. First of all you have to make sure you use these

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two elements, the verb to be in the past and then the main verb with the ING form.

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It's super important because if you don't write one or the other, the verb to be

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or the ing, it is not correctly formed. Now, as opposed to what we said that

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happened with the past simple, you have to remember that we use was with he, she

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or it and we use were with all the other persons. It does change. So, what do we use

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the past continuous for? We use, you can see it here, we use the past continuous to talk about

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an action in progress at a specific time in the past. Look at example number one.

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What were you doing at six o'clock last night? It's like, yeah, an action that is happening at

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6 o'clock you were doing something. It's an action in progress but in the past. We also use the past

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continuous to describe an action in progress that was interrupted by another action. As you can see

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here in number two. This action that interrupts goes in the past simple. Look at example number

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2. I was driving along the motorbike. I was driving. This is an action in progress, in

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the past. And suddenly, then, it started snowing. So, the action of me driving along the motorway

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was interrupted by the snow. So, this goes in the past continuous, the action in progress,

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and this goes in the past simple. It started snowing. Something that you

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have to look at or you also have to look at when talking or using the past

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continuous and the past simple, they usually go combined as we've just seen.

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so you can see that we use while with past continuous while I was doing the

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housework the children were playing in the garden beautiful and we use use are

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you gonna find when with the past simple not with the past continues okay it is

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also explained number three we often use the past continues with while for two

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actions happening at the same time but also it is true that you can find in an

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example like in number two where there is an action in progress interrupted by

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another but this time there will be a change I would say while I was driving

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along the motorbike the motorway it started snowing finally another use a

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last use of the past continuous is to the use of the past continuous to

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describe the beginning of a story or an anecdote like you can see in number four

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it was a cold night and it was raining I was watching TV in the sitting room so

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that's basically it for the past simple and past continuous as a summary we use

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the past simple for an action that happens in a specific at a specific time

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in the past the verb goes in ED form or if it's irregular in another form but

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the one that corresponds for questions and negatives we use did in the past

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continues is used for an action that is in progress in the past in the form of

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the past continuous is the verb to be in the past, was or were, and the main verb in the

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ING form. Many times we use past simple and past continuous together to express that an

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action that was in progress in the past is interrupted by another action. That's the

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action that is in progress goes in the past continuous and the action that interrupts

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is the past simple. In these cases we can use WHILE and WHEN to introduce the

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actions. We use one or the other, not the two at the same time, and we use WHILE

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with past continuous and when with past simple. Let's move on now to USED TO.

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USED TO is a tense or is a form of the verb that is

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It's usually used for expressing or talking about past habits.

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We used to live in the city, but now we live by the sea.

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We don't live in the city anymore.

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Let's see how it goes.

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I used to play tennis, but now I play only football.

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When I was little, I used to play tennis, but now I play only football.

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So, it's like we said, this is the use for past habits and past routines that are not true anymore.

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This is the positive form of used to.

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You need used to and the main verb in infinity form.

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Used to play.

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I played tennis in the past, but now I don't play it.

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Let's look at other forms of this form of the verb.

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I didn't used to eat apples, but now I love them.

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This means that in the past, I didn't eat apples, but now I do.

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This is the negative form of didn't used to.

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So look at how it goes.

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We use did in the negative form.

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like we said that we do, we have to do

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for the past simple

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and the verb that follows, which is use

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goes in infinity form

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it doesn't have

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ed anymore

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the following verb, the main verb

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goes in infinity form too

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I didn't

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use to

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it, full stop

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how about questions

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did he used to

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go to school

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Did he go to school every day in the past?

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For questions, we use did as well.

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We use the subject.

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Like any question in the past simple,

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the verb that follows goes in infinitive form

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and the main verb goes in infinitive form too.

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Did, subject, use in infinitive form

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and then the in infinitive form.

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This is basically it.

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so this is a very simple structure

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but you just have to get used to using it

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to refer to things that you used to do in the past

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but you don't do anymore

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Guys, as usual, now it's time for you to do your practice

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and I'll be available for any of your questions

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in the video call and or messages