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Subido el 13 de octubre de 2020 por Paula G.

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Usos del pasado simple y el pasado continuo.

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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. 00:00:01
First of all, I'm going to remind you how to make the past of the regular verbs. 00:00:12
So when you have a regular verb, you only need to add "-ed at the end. 00:00:21
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. 00:00:26
And then we have the irregular past tenses. In this case, the only way is to know your list. 00:00:46
OK, we have given you a list that we will be looking at all through the year. 00:00:54
An example of an irregular past will be go, went. 00:01:00
Past simple, affirmative, negative and interrogative statements. 00:01:06
ok here the first thing that you have to know is the verb that you are going to 00:01:10
use or the verb that you have been given because a in most cases we will do it in 00:01:19
the same way but there's one special case that it's different to all the 00:01:30
others that is the verb to be now we are going to begin with all the other verbs 00:01:35
that are not the verb to be here we have an example in the affirmative he 00:01:43
traveled to New York traveled in the past so you see the ED no to make the 00:01:51
negative we need an auxiliary verb in this case is the verb to do in the past 00:01:59
did and what we do is to add not to the verb did he did not or he didn't in the 00:02:06
short form travel to New York notice that here we do not longer use the past 00:02:21
form we use the base or infinitive why because we can see the tense that is 00:02:31
surpassed in here in the auxiliary verb that we need to make the negative and to 00:02:41
make the interrogative we begin with our with our auxiliary verb did our subject 00:02:51
he and then the verb in the base form. Did he travel to New York? And then we have the 00:02:58
special case of the verb to be. The verb to be doesn't need an auxiliary verb. That is 00:03:10
to say, do and be, the verb do or did, and the verb to be was where, can never go together. 00:03:18
they are not friends 00:03:31
so we don't need anything 00:03:35
any auxiliary 00:03:37
to make the negative 00:03:40
or the interrogative 00:03:41
when the verb used is to be 00:03:43
example 00:03:46
they were the best 00:03:48
verb to be 00:03:50
in the past 00:03:52
the only thing we do in the negative 00:03:53
is to add not 00:03:56
at the end of the verb 00:03:58
They were not the best, or in the short form, they weren't the best. 00:04:01
And to make the interrogative, the only thing that we do is to swap places between where and they, 00:04:09
between the verb and the subject. 00:04:17
So we put the verb before the subject, in front of the subject. 00:04:20
Were they the best? 00:04:26
Great. 00:04:30
Now let's see when do we use one or when do we use the other one. 00:04:32
We use the past simple, for example, for past completed actions. 00:04:38
We went to the zoo last week. 00:04:42
For past habits or states, he really liked sports and was very fit. 00:04:46
For actions that started and finished in the past, I played football for 20 years. 00:04:53
so I don't play football anymore. 00:05:00
And then an important use is the narrative use. 00:05:06
Why is it important? 00:05:09
Because we are going to write stories 00:05:11
and you will need to use it a lot. 00:05:12
So in this case, the past simple is used 00:05:16
to tell the events of the story in chronological order. 00:05:19
She opened the door, looked at us and went to her room. 00:05:23
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. 00:05:29
So yesterday at 10 p.m. I was sleeping because if I say yesterday only, OK, I could be using the simple past. 00:05:42
But I'm talking about a specific moment in the past, in that yesterday. 00:05:58
Yesterday at 10 p.m. I was sleeping. 00:06:04
And then it also has a narrative use. 00:06:08
But in this case, we will only use it at the beginning to set the scene, no? 00:06:10
At the beginning of our story. 00:06:17
It was getting dark and I was walking to my house when... 00:06:19
Important. 00:06:25
because when we give you exercises in which you have to decide 00:06:26
whether to use the past simple or the past continuous, 00:06:31
you will be having some words that can give you the clue 00:06:35
of when to use one or the other one. 00:06:39
The word yesterday will tell you that you have to use the simple past. 00:06:45
Yesterday I went to the cinema. 00:06:51
Last, last month, last week, last year, last century, last Monday 00:06:52
In that case we also use the past simple 00:06:59
We met last month 00:07:03
For days, months, years 00:07:05
We also use the past simple 00:07:10
We watched the movie in October 00:07:13
We watched the movie on Monday 00:07:15
We watched the movie in 1961 00:07:18
I don't know 00:07:22
with the word ago we visited granny three days ago 00:07:24
we visited granny two months ago 00:07:30
we visited granny seven weeks ago 00:07:34
we cannot put ago by itself 00:07:38
it needs okay something 00:07:41
that tells us the time that has passed 00:07:45
ago so we cannot say we visited granny 00:07:50
ago and that's it no you need 00:07:53
time when they were playing tennis when 00:07:57
he broke his leg so in these cases 00:08:02
you will be having a 00:08:05
past continuous before when because it's the action 00:08:08
in progress and that action is interrupted 00:08:12
by another action that he broke his leg 00:08:16
So they have finished the match, the tennis match. 00:08:19
Past continuous, while. 00:08:24
While we were having a picnic, it started to rain. 00:08:27
Okay, so while will lead you to a past continuous, to an action in progress. 00:08:34
While we were doing this, another person was doing this. 00:08:39
Or while we were doing this, this happened. 00:08:44
and the action is also interrupted 00:08:47
and then at followed by time 00:08:50
at 6 o'clock I was having dinner 00:08:54
and well this is all for today 00:08:59
Autor/es:
Paula García Fuoli
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