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yeah

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just a few and so today we're going to

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be talking about um

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the past tense so

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two different past tenses in english

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so we've talked a little bit about

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making

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using verbs making sentences talking

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about now

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in the present tense

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but english has a actually quite a lot

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of past tenses and today we're going to

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talk about the two most common ones

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so

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we'll get started with that in a little

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while yeah um but we're going to give

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some people some time to to get set up

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here

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tgif yeah

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do you guys know what tgif means

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i'll give you a hint

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it's about

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today

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this day

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of the week

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yeah what day of day of the week is it

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starts with the letter f

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the best day

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well i don't know if it's the best day

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but it's a good day

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today do you have a favorite day of the

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week my favorite day of the week we

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talked about this because yeah i have i

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have trouble because they're all good

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in their own way i guess like saturday

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is good yeah saturday is a good day

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yeah yeah but sometimes it's not oh

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and just you know if you need to go to

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the grocery store it's very busy yeah

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yeah yeah friday

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yeah so brian what does tgif mean so

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it's thank god it's friday

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so if you work monday through friday so

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like a five day work week and those are

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the days that you work

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then

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friday is your last day to work and then

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it's the weekend yeah

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thank god it's friday yeah that's right

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yeah really common and there's actually

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a restaurant called that to tgif yeah

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dji fridays yeah yeah

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yeah it's a chain of restaurants they

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serve like american sort of

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when i say like a pub food or something

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yeah

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and like french fries and

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yeah they have them like all over europe

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too

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they haven't been like prague do you

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have them in germany i'm sure in germany

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somewhere probably really okay so we

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could google that later because i was

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like oh if it exists in germany then

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they probably have it in um

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berlin you know like i feel like berlin

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is too cool for tgi friday yeah

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berlin is not happy with with big

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businesses we call those chain

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restaurants so like a restaurant that

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there's multiple locations all over the

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state or the country or the world

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like mcdonald's is a chain

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and america loves chain restaurants yeah

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not it's not as common here i think just

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have chain restaurants it depends yeah

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fast food yes like places like subway

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burger king but

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restaurants that you sit down and have a

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nice meal they're usually private i

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think yeah yeah a lot of them

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although there are some chains i feel

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like i've seen there's a pizza place

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that i have in mind that's a chain that

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i think you like

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what is a cute door uh

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oh

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cute door cute door are you saying that

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is a cute door

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right there oh yeah it is a cute door is

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that is that what you mean to say

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i hope i hope you think i have a cute

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door

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oh

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today we're learning parts of

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the room no but i do have a video on

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that that's true

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um

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yeah so you can check that out on the

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channel

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oh thank you captain t uh

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adorable door and a door that's cute

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that's funny

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but something else i need for my room is

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a

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a light cover or like a lampshade

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because here i have a light bulb i don't

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use this light bulb that very much

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um it's a very strong light yeah

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ah okay utah there used to be a tgi

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fridays in berlin not anymore i told you

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berlin's too cool for tgi friday thanks

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utah wow you're looking stuff off

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looking stuff up for us yes thank you

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you're our live stream assistant

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okay

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so let's see are we

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are we about ready should we give it

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couple more minutes let's give it just a

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few minutes okay

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some more people join i don't want

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anybody to miss the beginning yeah

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that's right um and then how were your

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weeks everybody

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where's what were the best things that

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happened for you this week what were the

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the highlights

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was the highlight of your week the

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highlight of my week was seeing my

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husband's family they were visiting from

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finland

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and we had a really nice time together

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how wonderful yeah we don't get to see

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them so often so

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that was nice what about you

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um i think mine was maybe last night um

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yeah i had

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two people came over and we made

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dumplings so like um

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we made chinese style dumplings where

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you take a flower wrapper kind of thing

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you fill it and then you fold it and

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then you steam it with hot water and oh

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my goodness i love dumplings that sounds

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delicious they were so good i love

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dumplings too any asian food is my

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favorite kind of food yeah oh that's

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very good that and mexican food but we

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talk about that every week

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how much we love mexican food

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yeah

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um but and sometimes when i make

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dumplings they don't come out that great

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like or i don't know they're usually

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pretty good too um yeah they usually

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come out

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fine

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but sometimes i think

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when oh jen loves

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awesome you love asian food too yeah

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it's good it's also really easy to make

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vegan usually too because although

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there's um

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there's meat in a lot of asian dishes

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it's really easy to use tofu or like

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tempeh or something to replace the meat

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they don't use a lot of dairy like

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hardly ever

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um and then eggs you can always find

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some replacement for so

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yeah

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that's true good options there but

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sometimes i think when i follow my

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recipe for dumplings too closely

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then it doesn't come out right but if i

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just look at them like you know this

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much soy sauce okay good you know just

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eyeball everything i think cooking is

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meant to be eyeballed baking needs to be

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exact

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but cooking i think you need the feeling

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that's right passion for the food to

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make good food to eyeball have you heard

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of this expression before

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that's a good one

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if you eyeball something

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so for example if you're

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making

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a soup and you need to add salt

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but you don't want to get a measuring

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spoon you just take the salt

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and pour it and just say oh that looks

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that looks about right

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that's eyeballing yep so to you're

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measuring with your

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eyes

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yeah it's a good expression so yeah when

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i make dumplings the key is to eyeball

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yeah

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voila

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all right shall we get started i think

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so okay are you guys ready to learn

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we're excited to teach you

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all right diving into the past

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going to the past

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oh cool

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teaching you new things left and right

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okay

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so

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um we were talking about you know what

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was the highlight of your week

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um so that's a little bit of warm up of

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the past for us

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we're going to be talking about two

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different past tenses today

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yep the past simple that's what we're

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going to start with

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and then we're going to talk a little

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bit about the past continuous or

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past progressive yeah it has two names

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very confusing for you yeah

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no but it's pretty simple and you've

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probably heard it a lot and again these

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are the most common past tenses in

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english oh

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yeah

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um so you see them a lot i'm sure you've

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used them before even if you have

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somewhat basic english

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yep um

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so we're gonna just establish we're

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gonna start with some vocabulary for you

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um and just talking about how do we talk

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about time

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so um

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so utah actually started

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started us off with tgif awesome

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so what day of the week is it

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it's friday right

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now what's today's date

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it's almost halloween almost

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so

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the date is

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should we should we wait for it or

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should we yeah wait you guys tell us in

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the comments what is the date and write

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it in american english style

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yeah what's today's date

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hmm

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awesome october 29th

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great yeah don't forget you have the the

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at the end there we went over that last

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time yep um so today's friday october

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29th

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um

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and so that means that yesterday

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was thursday october 28th

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so we have the expressions today

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and yesterday

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right today and yesterday

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now

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there's

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something else that we often use too

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there are all kinds of ways to talk

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about past tense other key expressions

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we talked about this week

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so if this week is october 29th

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and that's what friday is so this week

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friday is october 29th

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then

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last week

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friday was on which day

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this is a harder question what was the

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date

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so the number

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last friday

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i might have to do a little bit of math

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here yeah 29 minus seven minus seven

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math is hard counting on the fingers

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what's 29 minus seven

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math class again captain t

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coming in for the win

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22.

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exactly right so and how do we say this

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in american english it was october 22nd

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right um great yeah awesome so

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last friday

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was october 22nd this friday so today is

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october 29th

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last friday was october 22nd

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and so these also these dates are in two

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different weeks two so

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this week

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it's the 29th

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last week

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was the 22nd so here we have the

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expressions this week and last week that

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also goes for months and years so this

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month is october

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what was last month

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what month was last month

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if this month is october last month was

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september september

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and you can do that for years too right

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so this year it's 2021 last year was

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2020.

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so

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that's right so different expressions

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different ways to talk about the time of

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the past

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all right so moving forward let's look

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at some example sentences

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with the simple past

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so

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we can start with the sentence

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yesterday

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i went to the store

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yesterday i went to the store and type

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that in for you

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all right

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all right

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or another sentence could be

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last week megan

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bought groceries

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last week megan bought groceries

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so yesterday i went to the store

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last week

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megan bought groceries

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on tuesday

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my dad called

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on tuesday my dad called

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so these are different kinds of past

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tense sentences they're all using the

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simple past right

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um and now one of the ways so how do we

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know when to use the simple past tense

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in english

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one of the ways that like one of the

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most important ways that we know this

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is by having the specific time mentioned

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so if you don't have the specific time

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you don't necessarily use the simple

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past tense and we can see this in our

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examples too right so

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yesterday

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i went to the store

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in our next sentence that we saw

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last week megan bought groceries what's

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the time there

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what's the specific time mentioned

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so when we say last week

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megan brought groceries

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is it groceries is that when

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no no

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is megan when

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no no

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what about bot

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it's in the past tense

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yeah that helps you know that it's in

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the past but it doesn't specify

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the time that's right

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yeah i mean bot is in the past tense but

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the specific the time marker yeah how do

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we know what the time was

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it's last week right yeah so

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exactly so in the second sentence

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last week megan bought groceries and

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then if we look again at the next

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sentence we had on tuesday my dad

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called so again the time marker that

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shows the time

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tuesday

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on tuesday

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right

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so again this is a specific time right

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it's always a somewhat specific time you

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can also um

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use

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there are other expressions you can use

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too so like when i was younger when i

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was younger i had a dog

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or

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when i

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was

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when i lived in oklahoma

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i

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lived in tulsa

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when i lived in oklahoma i worked at

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this store

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and so here these when clauses they're

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sort of like adverbial clauses they tell

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you when the time is they specify

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at this specific time this happened

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yeah yeah so when i was younger i had a

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dog

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all right so that's when we know when to

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use the simple past

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um

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now

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how do we form how do we make the simple

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past great question so our examples gave

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you this structure a little bit there

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are two main ways that we make the past

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tense the simple past

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um

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great awesome

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um

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um

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good captain t

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yep when i was young i listened to the

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radio great yeah

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okay

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let's look at how we form the simple

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past in english yeah we're going to

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start with regular verbs

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yeah

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so how do we form

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the simple past with regular verbs

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so well we have the subject

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what's the subject

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look at the let's we'll start with a

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regular little we'll look at the example

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that we had um we'll use this sentence

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here

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oh perfect i don't know how to make that

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go there you go okay that's the sentence

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we're looking at you can you guys see it

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so on tuesday my dad called

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for regular verbs

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you're just going to add an ed to the

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end

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so

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excuse me

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we have the verb call

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right to call someone on the phone ring

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ring ring

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oh somebody is calling me hello

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to call

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and yeah so in the past we have verb

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plus ed

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my dad

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called

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yep right so

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um and we can do this with all kinds of

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examples so for example

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walk becomes

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walked

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listen

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to listen to someone

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becomes

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listened

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now why don't you try to write some

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examples for us write some examples in

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the comments you can think of a regular

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verb

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and give us both the simple form the

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regular form

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and the simple past tense yep just like

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the examples we just gave you so call

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called

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walk walked

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and be careful here

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you add an ed ending like called

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but you don't say the e so much it often

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sounds like either a d or a

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sound it really depends on

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the

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last consonant so for example walk

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you don't use your vocal chords for it

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so it becomes

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walked

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and it makes a t sound

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walked

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yesterday i

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walked

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to the store

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um

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and good captain t this one's actually

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a little trickier this one's slightly

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irregular we'll talk about that

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um should we talk about it right now

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yeah might as why not yeah

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so this one

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it doubles the p

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so instead of stopped with one p

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it

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is with two p's if you only had one p it

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would actually be pronounced stoked

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yeah english is happening funny yeah so

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it keeps the the pronunciation

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oh yeah i never thought of it that way

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so the rule here so what what's the rule

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um

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the rule is when you have a word or a

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verb rather

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that ends in

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vowel

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plus

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i know i know english

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throws its challenge it's okay is that a

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crying face yeah it is that's cute and

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sad

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sorry i'm just typing out so when you

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have vowel plus single consonant

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when you're making the

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symbol past

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it'll become

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you double the consonant so

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consonant times two

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plus e d

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what does that look like

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emily already told yeah

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math emily already told us that but um

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so stop

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becomes stopped

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what's another example

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pat

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so

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um

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so you can see there

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hi jack thanks for joining

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um so you can see here stop it's

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the o ah is the vowel

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the p is the consonant

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so we double the p

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and add the ed

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stop

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stopped again if we write

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s-t-o-p-e-d without doubling it

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um it sounds like stoked which is not a

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word

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that i know it might be a word i don't

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know

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um what's another example of this

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i have some down here too

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um

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let me take a look

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um

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oh i'm picking it i keep thinking of it

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pat no because the past tense of past

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pat oh you're right

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okay i think oh no pat it's padded okay

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yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah sorry

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confusing me okay so another one like

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stopped

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is

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padded which

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that is to this is padding that's right

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thanks

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usually you pat someone on the back when

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they did a good job yeah like emily's

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such a great co-worker

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she's so great at what she does and

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she's always so nice to me so we pat her

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on the back for doing a good thank you

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oh wow someone hasn't patted me on the

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back in a while you can also pat

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yourself on the back so that's a little

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is it an idiot it's a little thing we

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say

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if someone did well you could say you

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should pat yourself on the back that

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means you did a good job so

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good expression there

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okay

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so

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that's how we form the past tense of

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regular verbs um verbs that end in

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a vowel and consonant

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um notice it's not necessarily the case

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with vowels that end in um

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sorry verbs that end in two vowels so

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for example

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um

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i mean a lot of them are also

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irregular too so i'm thinking of bi

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becomes like bot

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um

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let's go on to

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i also want to look at some examples

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with verbs that end in e

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by the way captain t needed looked asked

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passed those are all great good job

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so we were talking about types of

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cooking and earlier you said

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um cooking you with cooking you can

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eyeball things

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but

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when you cook things in the oven like

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cakes

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or breads or something like that

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you

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bake them

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and when you bake something

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that

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here the verb i'm gonna type big here

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you can see bake is a verb that ends in

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an e

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so to make it past tense

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do we need to add edie

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bake eat bakeed

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what do you think what do you think it

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might be

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how would i say the sentence if brian

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said what did you do yesterday

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and i

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made a cake you cooked a cake i cooked a

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cake

26:17

use the verb bake and try and write that

26:20

sentence what i would respond with

26:23

i

26:27

um

26:46

anybody got it

26:49

that's okay

26:50

i'll just yes

26:54

yeah great yep yeah i baked the cake i

26:56

baked a cake great

26:58

good job yeah so

27:01

though a lot of verbs are irregular for

27:03

the regular verbs ending in e i don't

27:06

know why i keep doing the american sign

27:07

language for e but there it is

27:10

um

27:11

yeah you just simply add the letter d

27:14

again the pronunciation here is baked

27:17

i baked a cake yeah

27:21

i know german speakers tend to have a

27:23

bit of a problem they want to say baked

27:27

oftentimes um

27:29

but in english we don't pronounce every

27:31

letter that's right there are some words

27:34

in the past tense where you would add an

27:37

extra consonant for the ed um there

27:39

aren't many words i can't think of one

27:41

right now i'd have to look one up um

27:44

sometimes they're used in like

27:46

the bible or like older english or to be

27:50

poetic you know

27:52

blessed

27:53

blessed

27:55

blessed be the fruit

27:56

[Laughter]

27:59

oh god

28:01

okay yeah all right should we move on to

28:05

do you have any questions about

28:07

regular verbs

28:15

did we i'll write a few more here so

28:17

wash

28:19

becomes washed

28:22

uh cook

28:24

becomes cooked

28:27

so i washed the dishes

28:31

i cooked

28:32

the food

28:35

have we already said listened yes

28:38

use

28:39

call yeah

28:41

so those are a few

28:43

common

28:44

regular verbs

28:49

um

28:51

yeah that's good okay

28:54

are you ready for some

28:56

irregular verbs all the irregular verbs

28:59

no

29:00

and sadly i love them i think they're

29:02

sort of like poetic they're fun but as

29:05

like a learner it is a bit

29:08

daunting

29:09

um

29:10

challenging

29:13

to think you're going to have to just

29:14

memorize these but every language has i

29:18

think

29:19

irregular verbs and

29:21

yeah i guess yeah that's for sure for

29:23

every language that conjugates verbs

29:26

there are irregular verbs

29:28

and you just learn them and you get used

29:30

to them so don't stress

29:32

and don't panic

29:35

um

29:36

it's not so bad

29:38

yeah and

29:39

sorry i'm doing my eye real quick um

29:42

i mean also

29:44

these things take time and practice and

29:47

you know i'm working on yeah we live in

29:50

berlin and

29:51

i'm studying german regularly

29:55

um

29:56

and yeah i mean the cool thing is

29:59

the most common verbs in languages

30:03

are most

30:04

are the most irregular ones so the verbs

30:07

you use the most are normally the

30:09

irregular ones

30:11

and you learn them quickly

30:13

because you use them all the time yeah

30:16

right so that's kind of cool there are

30:18

some irregular you know there are some

30:20

exceptions there are some rare verbs

30:22

that are irregular too

30:24

um but you know you don't use those as

30:27

much

30:27

and you know you take your time

30:30

learn them little by little and just

30:32

practice using them like don't let them

30:34

scare you yeah and it's okay to make

30:37

mistakes too

30:39

you know if you

30:41

um if you say

30:43

you know if you know how to form the

30:46

simple past with ed

30:48

and you want to say do in the past tense

30:51

and instead of saying it correctly which

30:53

is did if you say dude or something

30:57

like people will still understand you

30:59

with context so that's cool you know you

31:01

just try and you alert with time yep oh

31:04

vivi

31:05

sally vivi hello

31:09

thanks for joining

31:12

uh let's see i don't know why i

31:13

understand you talking like that

31:17

um wait you do understand us

31:21

that's good yeah and grammar it just

31:23

takes practice yeah yeah keep watching

31:25

the live streams yeah

31:28

it comes in time keep practicing

31:31

listening is really helpful that's how i

31:33

really learn most of my languages i

31:35

listen to you know i watch youtube

31:37

channels

31:38

um and i also

31:40

um listen to podcasts

31:42

talk to friends

31:44

yeah oh that's helpful

31:48

okay so

31:49

shall we

31:52

give you guys some of the irregular

31:55

verbs

31:57

these are the ones i would say

31:59

are the more common you'll see these the

32:01

most so maybe this would be a good time

32:04

to take notes yeah

32:06

also um

32:08

with the irregular verbs we're going to

32:11

go ahead and give you a bunch of them

32:13

we'll give you a few

32:15

sentences too uh we already gave you

32:18

some sentences in the beginning with

32:20

irregular verbs

32:22

so um

32:23

but go ahead and write some in the

32:25

comments too there are a lot of them so

32:28

if you know some irregular verbs for the

32:31

simple past go ahead write them in if we

32:33

write them in twice then hey that's cool

32:37

you think we should give this as one

32:38

full list or

32:40

each one individually um i think we

32:42

should just go one by one okay

32:45

yeah and if we don't do them all that's

32:47

fine either way

32:49

um

32:52

all right let's start at the top yeah

32:54

okay so um brian

32:57

if

32:58

i wanted to say

33:00

that

33:03

you make this sentence past tense okay

33:06

i go to the supermarket

33:08

i went to the supermarket

33:11

right yeah this one's very different go

33:13

and went yes went yeah yesterday i went

33:17

to the supermarket i went you went he

33:20

went did you go to the supermarket

33:22

yesterday um yeah i went to the

33:25

supermarket did you really yes no cool

33:28

did you yeah i also went to the

33:30

supermarket yesterday i went to two

33:31

supermarkets

33:33

i went to the asian supermarket to get

33:35

things for the dumplings and then i

33:37

needed some cereal because i eat cereal

33:40

for breakfast

33:42

um

33:43

quite often so i went to

33:46

the supermarket

33:47

um after class yesterday and i got some

33:50

cereal what kind of cereal

33:52

um i got

33:54

the cinnamon squares oh my favorite

33:57

there's like an american english name

33:58

for it but i forget what it is

34:00

how could you cinnamon swirl i don't

34:02

know

34:03

is it cinnamon toast

34:05

oh i confuse that with french toast

34:06

crunch sometimes yeah i've never had

34:08

french toast okay that one's like pretty

34:10

good okay we're getting off topic oh no

34:12

but cereal is important and i also got

34:14

like a

34:15

like an oats like a muesli kind of thing

34:18

yeah and i usually mix them together

34:19

it's like berry flavor and if i mix it

34:21

with chocolate or cinnamon

34:23

delicious

34:25

okay sorry

34:26

went

34:27

go becomes wet

34:29

all right should i quiz you on the next

34:30

one sure

34:32

all right can you make this sentence

34:34

past tense okay

34:35

um

34:38

i

34:39

do pilates in the morning

34:43

i did pilates in the morning good

34:46

pilates is like a type of exercise it's

34:49

like yoga kind of

34:51

so do becomes

34:53

did

34:56

that's how you write pilates right

34:58

pilates yes

35:00

pilates is a german thing is it

35:03

is it a german word it is a german man

35:06

invented it for german athletes

35:09

to practice mobility and

35:13

so

35:13

pilates pilates

35:16

okay the next one

35:20

um

35:24

if i

35:25

make this sentence past

35:27

i run

35:29

this morning

35:31

i

35:32

ran this morning

35:35

so run becomes ram

35:38

i ran run run run

35:40

the race

35:42

and to run is like to walk

35:46

but quickly

35:49

it's hard

35:50

it's hard to run when you're sitting yes

35:54

okay

35:56

and the next one is also a little toy

35:59

and a playground

36:01

um

36:02

i see friends

36:04

in the past

36:06

would be yesterday i

36:08

saw

36:09

friends yeah i saw friends or i saw some

36:12

friends sounds a little better yeah good

36:15

i'll type that one in

36:16

oh you got it she's on it

36:19

okay okay yeah seesaw there's also a toy

36:22

in a playground called a seesaw so one

36:25

like it's like this and one person sits

36:28

here one person sits there and then you

36:31

go back and forth up and down and it's

36:34

called a seesaw which i don't know why

36:36

it's called that

36:38

um

36:39

yeah for example um someone could say

36:42

oh um

36:44

what move if you went to the movies to

36:46

the movie theater

36:48

someone would ask you what movie did you

36:50

see last night and you would say i saw

36:54

dune

36:55

dude is that a real movie yeah it's like

36:57

really popular these days it's

36:59

everyone's talking about it i have no

37:01

idea what it's about i might know of i

37:04

think timothy chalamet isn't it but i'm

37:06

not 100 sure yeah it's okay we're we're

37:09

old yeah we're oh i'm almost

37:12

as clueless as you here i don't know

37:15

anything okay

37:16

i mean i know things just not that

37:19

okay uh so

37:21

oh fun i saw a man with a saw good oh

37:25

that's another meaning for the word so

37:27

saw

37:28

is the past the simple past for c

37:31

but saw it's also a tool it's a thing

37:34

you use to

37:35

cut wood

37:39

we're using a saw yeah so it's made of

37:42

metal and if you have a piece of wood

37:44

yeah you might cut yeah it with the saw

37:46

it's like if you cut a tree down with a

37:48

saw

37:52

okay

37:53

the next one

37:55

can

37:57

yeah this is a modal verb and

38:00

uh to make can past tense

38:02

you say could

38:05

so

38:07

um

38:08

now i can speak

38:10

a few languages but when i was younger

38:13

i could not speak

38:16

any languages no when i was younger i

38:19

could only speak one language

38:22

i could only speak english until

38:24

i was 16 or 17 years old

38:31

so can is to be able to so when you say

38:34

i could only speak english you could

38:37

also say i was able to speak english

38:40

that's another way of saying the same

38:42

thing so i could

38:44

only speak english when i was a child

38:47

okay

38:49

good emily i have a question for you of

38:51

course yes did you have any pets when

38:54

you were younger

38:56

uh yes i had five dogs really i had no

39:00

idea i never

39:02

heard of that yeah we were dog people

39:06

so

39:10

have becomes had

39:13

he said did you have any pets and i said

39:16

i have

39:17

five dogs

39:19

or had sorry had five dollars i only

39:22

have one now

39:23

oh

39:25

okay

39:27

um

39:28

what brian what did you make for dinner

39:31

last night

39:32

i made i think you should know the

39:35

answer to this too

39:37

what did i make for dinner last night

39:39

can you write the answer in the comments

39:42

a full sentence

39:45

you can use my name if you want you can

39:47

say last night brian

39:50

and the rest of the sentence

39:57

what did i make for dinner last night

40:13

uh-huh this is

40:16

see if you were listening

40:18

um

40:25

let's see

40:28

oh captain t doesn't know oh no anybody

40:32

else any other friends know

40:35

do you remember what i made of course i

40:38

remember

40:39

do you like those i love them we should

40:41

make them together sometimes yeah that's

40:43

maybe we can do a little video on it or

40:45

something that'd be fun or a live stream

40:48

it would be a little difficult with the

40:49

camera but we could figure it out yeah

40:52

we can prepare everything ahead of time

40:54

and then teach people how to make them

40:56

on camera

40:58

um so

41:00

what did i make for

41:02

dinner last night

41:04

do you want to give it away i'll give it

41:06

away

41:08

you made

41:09

dumplings last night that's right yep i

41:11

made dumplings brian made

41:14

oops

41:17

so make

41:18

made

41:21

good

41:22

okay

41:23

so the next one

41:27

what did you say

41:30

i said that i made dumplings ah

41:33

i said dumplings he said

42:58

okay can you guys see us now

43:07

we were having technical

43:09

difficulties

43:13

can you see us now

43:15

can you hear us okay

43:23

okay we're back thanks jen okay um

43:28

okay yeah sorry about that

43:30

all right moving onward so

43:32

um

43:34

irregular

43:36

verbs in the simple past

43:39

now if you remember when we talked about

43:43

um

43:44

verbs in the simple present

43:46

if you have a verb like eat for example

43:49

you say i eat

43:51

you eat

43:53

she eats

43:54

we eat

43:56

it's mostly the same however

43:59

when we say he she and it

44:01

you add the s at the end right so

44:04

not all of the forms of the verb are the

44:07

same

44:08

for the subjects

44:10

um

44:10

[Music]

44:13

but the simple past

44:16

is it the same for all the subjects

44:18

hmm

44:20

i

44:21

let's go through them yeah i

44:23

are we using meat um

44:25

maybe we can

44:26

yeah we can use eat in the simple past

44:29

so

44:29

eat

44:32

is um

44:35

i'm wondering maybe i should type these

44:36

out in this in the present first just to

44:38

compare them so i eat

44:42

you eat

44:44

she he

44:46

itch

44:47

eats with the s

44:54

we eat

44:56

they eat

44:59

so that's the simple past oh sorry it's

45:02

a

45:02

simple present

45:16

now it's a little easier with the past

45:19

tense though

45:21

because you say i h

45:24

eight

45:25

yep

45:27

uh

45:31

he ate it eight

45:33

we

45:34

ate

45:36

day eight

45:38

that's it

45:39

yeah so they're all the same

45:42

eight eight eight eight

45:43

this is true with almost every verb

45:47

so

45:48

i called you called she called

45:52

it's all the same so that that helps

45:54

that makes things easier

45:57

um

45:58

but

46:00

we said it's not the same for every verb

46:05

what verb is different

46:08

what verb changes in the past tense

46:11

based on the subject can you tell us in

46:14

the comments yeah this is a tough one

46:16

it's a hard one but this is one of the

46:18

most common verbs

46:20

it's probably the most common verb

46:24

the most common verb

46:26

in english

46:48

yeah so what verb changes in the simple

46:50

past tense

46:51

based on the subject

46:53

it's different

46:56

or you could think of what's the most

46:58

common verb

47:01

[Music]

47:03

one of the verbs we use the most

47:06

shall we give it away

47:07

let's do it okay

47:09

so

47:10

it's the verb to be

47:14

good yeah

47:15

good job captain captain t you're on

47:17

fire good job

47:19

um so we have

47:22

i was

47:25

you were

47:30

she

47:31

he it

47:34

was

47:39

we were

47:42

and they were

47:46

boom

47:47

yep there we go so was and were but

47:50

they're different right so it was that's

47:52

important to

47:53

learn and to know how to use

47:56

one of the most common verbs

47:58

if you need help in memorizing this

48:01

you can also think of i

48:05

um

48:06

yeah

48:07

um so i

48:09

she he

48:11

it

48:12

was

48:14

and those are all singular

48:17

there's just one

48:18

but in english when you have any of the

48:21

plural ones i know you can be singular

48:24

but it can also be plural so we'll think

48:26

of it

48:27

as plural as two or more

48:30

so um you

48:32

we and they

48:34

were were

48:36

yeah and those are the the same for

48:39

example

48:40

i

48:41

was

48:42

tired

48:43

yesterday

48:46

were you tired um no i wasn't tired

48:50

yesterday okay i was energetic wow i had

48:54

a lot of energy

48:58

yeah exactly

49:00

um

49:01

yeah

49:04

um

49:05

okay so that's

49:07

that's was in the past

49:09

um

49:12

how about you how were you doing

49:14

yesterday yeah were you tired yesterday

49:18

were you were you excited

49:21

were you busy

49:22

let us know how you were yesterday how

49:25

are you doing tell us in the comments

49:36

oh jen was tired and busy oh yeah busy

49:40

and tired oh that's a lot yeah

49:44

um

49:47

oh you kind of go up

49:50

to where the comment was

49:52

and then

49:55

how about you guys ah i was

49:59

captain t what was i yesterday you said

50:02

you were tired i was tired

50:04

i was also a little bit busy

50:07

and i was

50:10

hungry all day yeah you know those days

50:12

where you're just

50:14

want to eat all day you just want to eat

50:15

everything yeah i was hungry all day

50:18

what about you

50:20

um let's see yeah i was energetic

50:23

um yeah i was busy most of the day yeah

50:26

i did a lot of work um and i did some

50:29

german homework

50:31

um

50:32

yeah i did some shopping i did some

50:35

grocery shopping so yeah i was a busy

50:37

man busy bee yeah how was how was the

50:40

weather yesterday do you remember oh i

50:42

think it was beautiful

50:44

it was sunny

50:46

when i went on my walk the weather was

50:48

beautiful

50:50

it was not

50:51

very cold mm-hmm yeah and hadia was

50:55

hungry yesterday me too

50:58

hungry twins yes quick we need to make

51:01

some dumplings for you yeah

51:06

great um do we want to talk more about

51:08

these or do we want to going back to the

51:10

regulars yeah because we only got

51:12

through part of them

51:14

it was rainy yesterday

51:17

oh it was raining

51:19

that doesn't sound nice yeah it was

51:21

really stormy

51:22

oh

51:24

that's too bad storms are kind of nice

51:26

sometimes

51:27

yeah if they're not too strong yeah yeah

51:30

there was a storm in boston recently

51:33

then some people lost electricity was

51:35

that like the last few days right yeah

51:38

did you read about it i read about it

51:40

should we do read and read that's a good

51:42

one yes yeah this is a fun and tricky

51:44

one so

51:47

be careful

51:48

read so for example i read a book

51:53

every night before i go to sleep

51:56

read is r-e-a-d

52:01

now did i read my book last night

52:04

yeah because i read my book every night

52:08

before i go to sleep so last night i

52:11

read my book

52:13

yeah but be careful read

52:16

and read are written the same they look

52:20

the same you can't see a difference you

52:22

just

52:24

you have to know on like with the

52:25

context

52:27

so i read

52:29

i like to read

52:32

i read yesterday

52:35

or i read

52:36

on the train

52:40

that's a tricky one yeah yeah definitely

52:43

um why don't you just copy paste them

52:45

that way they have them and they can

52:46

write them in their notes because those

52:47

are important okay should i just do all

52:49

of them yeah okay

52:50

um we're gonna give you just a big list

52:52

of a bunch of common irregular verbs for

52:56

the past tense

52:57

um

52:59

sorry the list is a little mixed up here

53:01

a little

53:02

smushed

53:04

oh well oh well

53:05

um

53:06

so we're gonna read through these just

53:08

so you can hear them at least

53:14

all right okay um should we start the

53:16

beginning or where we left off

53:18

uh we'll start from where we left off

53:20

okay um

53:22

so give

53:23

becomes gave

53:25

find becomes found

53:29

get

53:30

becomes got

53:33

tell

53:34

becomes

53:35

told

53:38

take

53:40

took

53:42

feel

53:44

felt

53:46

leave

53:48

left

53:50

come

53:51

came

53:54

right wrote

53:57

and we already said read

54:00

read

54:02

drive

54:03

drove

54:06

by

54:07

bought

54:09

now the bot

54:11

looks kind of funny but remember it's

54:14

just

54:15

bought kind of like the word thought

54:20

yeah so bot is really just pronounced

54:22

bot

54:23

is you don't say the gh

54:27

okay so we looked a little bit at um so

54:30

that's forming

54:33

sentences is like affirmative yes

54:36

sentences

54:37

um we haven't looked so much at

54:40

questions though have we

54:42

we did a little bit we've asked each

54:44

other questions

54:46

um but we should take a moment and

54:49

um look at questions yeah and the

54:51

negatives yeah that's important

54:54

um and then we're going to go on to this

54:56

okay then we have

55:02

thank you

55:04

okay so with questions

55:08

let me um ask brian something and pay

55:10

attention to the word order and the

55:13

words we use

55:15

so what did you do yesterday um

55:19

yesterday i

55:21

went shopping

55:23

should i add more or is that good

55:26

well maybe type type the question okay

55:28

so

55:29

what

55:31

did you do yesterday

55:48

let's look at another one

55:51

what did you do last weekend

55:54

last weekend i went to a football game

56:10

did you eat any good food

56:13

i

56:15

yes i ate

56:17

a hot dog

56:19

why it's true it was a good news

56:22

okay i was starving

56:25

but it wasn't good

56:30

good okay

56:33

all right so let's look at the question

56:35

did you eat any good food

56:40

thank you

56:42

um

56:43

you'll notice that the

56:44

structure here

56:46

what's the first word in the sentence

56:49

did

56:50

right did you eat any good food

56:54

so when you're asking a question in

56:56

english

56:57

you put the helping verb in the

56:59

beginning

57:00

right

57:02

and especially for

57:04

past tense

57:05

you have that did there right you see

57:08

that a lot

57:11

last week was your birthday happy late

57:14

birthday yeah happy belated birthday

57:17

great so vivi ate some cake

57:19

awesome i hope it was delicious sounds

57:22

nice

57:23

oh vegan cake cool not as much

57:28

um

57:29

great yeah so we have let's look at the

57:31

structure i'll type it out here so we

57:34

have did

57:36

plus subject

57:39

plus

57:41

verb in

57:43

the simple form

57:46

um

57:47

and the rest of the the sentence so

57:50

that's for questions

57:53

again

57:55

did you

57:57

eat you know whatever

57:59

did you eat some good food

58:01

that's our example mm-hmm

58:06

with that yeah i'm never gonna yeah

58:10

okay so did you eat so okay jen said she

58:13

made hummus today so i could say

58:16

jen did you make hummus today

58:22

and see

58:23

what happened with that she said i made

58:25

hummus in the past

58:27

but you don't say did you made hummus

58:31

it's did you make

58:35

okay so it's very common for people to

58:38

try to say did and then another past

58:41

but the word did is already in the past

58:45

so we know we're talking about the past

58:48

the other verb you leave it

58:50

by itself in

58:52

the simple form that's right

58:55

it's great

58:57

um

58:59

all right

59:02

so if i want to say that

59:06

or

59:07

you want to know

59:08

if i listened to music yesterday

59:12

how would you ask me that question go

59:15

ahead and type it in

59:17

the comments

59:18

[Music]

59:20

oh we got a question from jen did you

59:22

study finnish yesterday emily um

59:25

[Music]

59:26

no i didn't

59:28

i didn't study finnish yesterday

59:31

bad student

59:53

all right so again if i listened to

59:55

music yesterday but you want to ask

59:58

that um did i study german i did study

60:01

german yesterday

60:03

um and i i learned

60:06

yeah some new words some new advanced

60:08

words that's nice yeah

60:10

yeah side messy it's one of the words

60:13

contemporary

60:14

wow learning my c1 words here yeah fancy

60:19

um

60:20

okay so what would the question be

60:23

if my answer is i listened to music

60:26

yesterday

60:28

what would someone ask me to get that

60:30

answer

60:35

remember our structure

60:37

oh actually yeah captain t already wrote

60:39

it oh great ah great haha i was hiding

60:42

there good job captain t

60:44

so

60:47

great yeah

60:49

um

60:53

yeah and how do you that's that's great

60:55

that's another so um how do you wrote

60:58

were you listening to music yesterday is

61:01

this a correct sentence

61:03

it is yeah this is perfectly fine you

61:05

can definitely say that that's another

61:08

kind of past tense and we're going to

61:10

look at that in a few minutes and we're

61:12

going to also talk about the difference

61:14

between did you listen to music and were

61:18

you listening to music they're very

61:20

similar there's a small difference and

61:22

we'll talk about that yeah we'll talk

61:24

about that after we have our break in a

61:27

in a little bit

61:28

good very nice cool so that's how we

61:31

form questions

61:33

also just quickly another way you could

61:35

ask that is what did you do yesterday um

61:41

actually i'm gonna let you type that

61:42

because it's hard for me to tell you

61:44

what did you do yesterday oh i listened

61:46

to music yesterday

61:48

and that's starting with the w

61:52

question word

61:55

okay

61:56

so

61:57

jen asked the question to

62:00

emily

62:01

um

62:05

did you study finnish yesterday um

62:08

do you remember what emily's answer was

62:10

to that

62:12

she said no

62:14

but she wrote a full sentence or she

62:16

said a full sentence

62:22

oh i was putting medicine in my eye

62:26

um

62:29

so she said no

62:32

i said no i

62:35

didn't

62:36

study finish yesterday

62:39

or just no i didn't

62:42

i didn't

62:49

that's another

62:52

yeah that's another way you could say

62:54

both both are correct

62:56

um it's common to say no i didn't

63:00

um but if you want to say the full

63:02

sentence no i didn't study finnish

63:04

yesterday and what if i did study

63:08

how would i answer that

63:10

i guess i kind of just said

63:13

no

63:14

not quite

63:26

you could say yes i did study finnish

63:28

yesterday

63:30

you don't need to say the whole sentence

63:32

though right that's a lot of information

63:34

yeah so typically

63:36

you just say yes i did yes i did yep

63:39

it's good practice to say the full

63:41

sentence practice speaking pronunciation

63:44

all of that but in normal conversation i

63:46

would just say yeah i did

63:50

so when we say no i didn't study finnish

63:52

yesterday

63:54

what's the structure here

63:56

so we have

63:58

the sub no okay we start with that then

64:01

we have the subject

64:03

plus

64:06

didn't

64:08

plus

64:10

the verb

64:11

and the simple form

64:17

so

64:18

i didn't study

64:21

i didn't read

64:23

she didn't eat

64:25

he didn't

64:27

drive

64:28

we didn't walk

64:31

oh that's confusing

64:33

with finish

64:36

yeah i think we can just leave this for

64:37

a moment

64:38

um

64:41

good so again making sure that um

64:45

when you use didn't

64:47

so both did and didn't whether positive

64:49

or negative

64:50

tells you already that it's in the past

64:54

so you just use the simple form of the

64:56

verb

64:57

he didn't walk to school

65:00

we know it's in the past because it's

65:02

didn't

65:04

um

65:06

again a common mistake is he didn't walk

65:09

to school but that's not correct you use

65:12

the simple form he didn't walk to school

65:16

we didn't have a live stream yesterday

65:20

we didn't that's right we're having it

65:22

now

65:23

we didn't have it yesterday

65:36

all right

65:38

good so

65:39

there just a little bit of a review so

65:41

we looked at forming the simple past how

65:45

to use it when to use it right you have

65:48

to use oh should we shoot a quiz on this

65:51

yeah

65:52

oh that's fun in our sentences with

65:55

the simple past

65:58

what's something we said this in the

65:59

beginning you need to have something

66:01

in your

66:02

sentences hmm

66:05

oh i don't remember using the simple

66:07

past

66:08

i know you know yeah yeah when do you

66:10

use the simple past

66:13

i'm like i know you know the answer what

66:15

do you

66:17

in need sentence yeah yeah

66:20

either you're asking the question or

66:23

you're just

66:24

talking you know you're starting a

66:25

conversation

66:30

okay did you have breakfast this morning

66:32

boom this morning

66:34

is

66:35

when

66:36

so

66:37

when you have a question with the simple

66:38

past or you're talking in the simple

66:40

past

66:41

yeah you need the time

66:43

marker of some sort right we need the

66:46

time did you guys have breakfast this

66:49

morning

66:50

yes we did

66:52

um

66:53

good yeah and the verb needs to be in

66:55

the simple past very good

66:58

we looked at how to form it we looked at

67:00

regulars and irregulars we also looked

67:03

at um

67:05

forming questions and negatives right

67:08

um what do you say we let's see

67:10

moving onwards

67:12

i say we

67:14

yeah it's been an hour yeah let's go

67:15

ahead and take a break it's been more

67:16

than an hour we'll take a break now and

67:19

we'll come back in a few minutes

67:21

and what we do after the break

67:24

we told you earlier do you guys remember

67:26

after the break we'll do a little

67:28

worksheet

67:30

and then we're going to quickly look at

67:32

another past

67:34

tense

67:35

um

67:37

but yeah so take you know five minutes

67:39

go to the bathroom get a water whatever

67:41

you need to do

67:42

and we will meet here

67:47

um

67:48

also

67:50

oh yeah yeah

67:52

um so there's something if you check out

67:54

the link below so we'll be looking at a

67:56

worksheet that's from our app

67:58

and you can use the lingonia english app

68:01

if you go to if you check out the link

68:04

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68:06

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68:08

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68:11

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68:14

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68:16

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68:17

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68:19

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68:21

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68:22

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68:26

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68:28

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68:31

make stuff that

68:33

will help you in all different types um

68:36

there's even like a

68:37

a speaking

68:39

yes

68:40

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68:40

pronunciation and some of the

68:43

um membership opportunities too yeah so

68:46

go ahead and check it out

68:48

um also go ahead and um i can pull it up

68:51

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68:54

and go ahead if you have some questions

68:56

for us too you know where are you

68:58

watching from where where do you live

69:00

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69:02

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69:04

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69:07

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69:09

for us that maybe you've wondered either

69:11

today or in watching our videos in the

69:14

past go ahead and um

69:17

yeah you can ask us about

69:19

english stuff you can ask us about

69:21

anything with lingoni

69:22

um about us our stuff our lives living

69:26

in germany

69:27

being from america

69:29

funny things you've heard about america

69:31

i'm sure there's plenty

69:35

no we need to go to the other drive okay

69:38

oh to the driver that's the worksheet

69:46

um

69:48

oh

69:50

oh

69:51

we like helping you guys thank you for

69:53

watching

69:56

and then hagos roach

69:58

uh where are we going like where did we

70:01

go yesterday you mean um

70:04

let's see i just stayed in my

70:05

neighborhood so i went to the park

70:08

yesterday with my dog

70:10

i went to a cafe and i had a nice

70:13

cappuccino

70:16

i

70:17

worked most of the day at home

70:22

all right should we pdf

70:34

okay sorry we're just getting everything

70:36

ready

70:39

again if you need to

70:40

take a bathroom break get your notepad

70:43

ready you know

70:44

ready for some more some more practice

70:47

um cool that's up and running i feel

70:49

like we should oh i'll be the one

70:53

manning computer have you ever met a

70:55

hollywood actor have i a time marker

71:00

uh time marker uh jen wants to know what

71:03

we mean with time marker

71:05

that means um

71:06

any word or phrase that shows a time

71:09

period so

71:11

this morning yesterday

71:14

it could be in the future too next week

71:16

last week

71:19

at three o'clock all kinds of questions

71:21

oh my goodness we're behind on our quest

71:23

what am i drinking i'm drinking cold

71:26

coffee

71:28

and

71:30

of course some water

71:31

always coffee and water together that's

71:33

right

71:34

hydrating and dehydrating yes both you

71:36

gotta even it out what did we have for

71:38

breakfast this morning what did you have

71:40

for breakfast i already know i didn't

71:42

have oatmeal oh i know i had

71:46

an egg

71:47

with spinach and avocado and then a

71:50

peanut butter and jelly

71:52

i couldn't decide if i wanted sweet or

71:54

savory yeah

71:55

sometimes i mix i do that sometimes i go

71:57

to the bakery down the street

71:59

and i'll get like a yeah a savory so

72:01

savory is almost like salty

72:03

a savory um pastry and i'll get

72:06

something sweet as well like uh

72:10

yeah like a chocolate chocolate

72:11

croissant

72:13

and i'll have that with coffee and it's

72:16

it's the best perfect

72:18

um

72:19

okay and captain t we haven't answered

72:21

your question yet have you ever met a

72:23

famous actor i don't think so wait have

72:25

i uh

72:27

i'm like no my life

72:29

um one time i saw famous people

72:32

well more than once a couple of times in

72:35

my life i've seen them like in the wild

72:38

in the y aka like in real life in real

72:40

life

72:41

um

72:43

but

72:44

oh i have i've met a few at like

72:46

concerts and stuff yeah yeah i met bon

72:49

jovi

72:50

and uh the weekend

72:53

that was a long time ago so those are

72:55

famous musicians those are famous

72:56

musicians not actors sorry

72:58

um

72:59

yeah i met regina spektor once um

73:03

yeah she's a singer that i really like

73:04

interesting um because i went to her

73:06

concert and then afterwards yeah angry

73:08

yeah meet and greet yeah she was great

73:10

she's she's really cool yeah

73:12

cool have i ever seen anybody else say

73:15

this

73:16

i don't think so have you met someone

73:17

famous captain t

73:20

hollywood actor has anybody else here

73:22

met somebody famous before

73:26

okay i've met famous people in germany

73:28

but i didn't know they were famous does

73:30

that make sense so they're famous in

73:32

germany

73:34

and everybody knew them but i didn't

73:35

know who they were

73:37

so i wasn't nervous

73:41

okay

73:44

um should this be in a separate window

73:48

i don't know it

73:50

it's up to you okay because i think

73:52

otherwise i'm not gonna be able to see

73:53

it yes okay

73:54

yeah usually i download it that way it's

73:56

like just well it is downloaded i just

73:58

this is my pdf reader as well oh i see

74:01

it was my like

74:02

you met oh

74:03

wait you like him have you met him

74:07

he's famous is he from boston he's

74:09

boston he's bostromian that's the new

74:12

yorker accident

74:14

i can't do the boston except brian do

74:16

the best tonight he's from boston boston

74:18

tell your mom i said hi yeah they're

74:21

very similar accents

74:22

no you haven't met him

74:25

maybe one day you never know you never

74:27

know

74:28

you never know

74:31

um

74:32

all right shall we shall we do our

74:34

worksheet let's do it are you guys ready

74:36

to practice did you have a good break

74:38

we hope you had a good break

74:40

okay um

74:42

and sharing our screen here do you mind

74:44

i can go to shared um i can do it too

74:48

you can go for it okay then oh this is a

74:50

crazy yeah it's a funky mouse okay and

74:52

then window

74:58

okay can you guys see

75:00

our beautiful worksheet

75:03

all right

75:05

um

75:08

okay so this is one of our worksheets

75:10

from the lingonia app

75:12

um so when you go ahead and sign up for

75:15

your free seven day trial again the link

75:17

is in the description below this is one

75:20

example of some of the materials that we

75:22

have there so let's go ahead and get

75:25

started

75:26

so you're watching the video and then

75:29

in there you'll see and hear the

75:31

sentences

75:33

here in this practice

75:35

and what you're doing is

75:36

you're using these words and you're

75:39

putting them in the sentences below

75:42

right

75:44

so number one

75:45

hey

75:47

what

75:48

did

75:49

sorry no you're

75:52

hey what did you

75:54

yesterday

75:56

hmm so which words from the list above

76:00

which word fits

76:19

yeah also as you

76:21

look at this i'm sure some of you will

76:23

go through and get all of the answers

76:25

sooner yeah um

76:28

sorry so first one hey what did you

76:31

do yesterday

76:32

yeah yeah good job what did you do

76:35

yesterday what did you do yesterday

76:37

i

76:38

grocery shopping and when i was at the

76:41

supermarket i saw your friend tom

76:45

yeah what did you do what happened

76:48

um number two

76:50

i blank

76:52

grocery store oh sorry blank or grocery

76:55

shopping and

76:57

i went to the supermarket

76:59

you just read this and i saw your

77:05

i went grocery shopping

77:10

oh we have a question here oh nice

77:13

you say hi to him

77:15

this number three is the question

77:26

did

77:27

did you say hi to him remember capital d

77:30

here

77:31

so yeah when you're asking a question

77:34

did comes first right

77:36

did you say hi to him

77:41

number four

77:43

of course i blank this one might be a

77:46

little trickier

77:48

um

77:50

yeah of course i blank hi

77:55

um he said he wants to cook dinner for

77:58

us soon

78:02

of course i

78:04

said

78:06

hi

78:06

of course i said hi

78:11

oh that

78:12

like fun

78:18

oh

78:19

that

78:22

can i turn the heat up yes

78:24

the heat yeah are you cold i'm cold hot

78:28

i'm gonna turn the heat up

78:31

oh that

78:32

i'm kind of hot but i'm also in a wool

78:34

sweater it's okay okay everything's fine

78:36

are you sure i'm totally fine

78:40

live streams

78:41

um ooh that

78:43

we still sound

78:45

like fun very good jen

78:50

did you go shopping last

78:56

i know where's katy perry you're hot and

78:59

you're cold

79:05

did you go shopping last

79:09

hmm

79:13

last last

79:14

last did last win nope

79:16

last

79:17

time

79:19

last weekend captain t always coming to

79:22

help

79:24

awesome did you go shopping last weekend

79:27

no i didn't go shopping last weekend but

79:30

i

79:31

shopping last thursday

79:34

you go to the gym last week

79:38

i

79:44

oh well

79:46

but i

79:51

but i went shopping last thursday

79:55

very good

79:56

good

79:57

and then a follow-up question

80:02

when we ask a question

80:04

and about the past tense we're going to

80:06

use what's the first word

80:10

blank you go to the gym last week

80:13

did

80:15

did you go to the gym last week and then

80:18

finishing it off yeah i went to the gym

80:20

on tuesday and thursday

80:23

of course

80:24

last week

80:26

all right okay

80:28

should i move onwards yeah if you guys

80:30

have any questions please write us in

80:32

the comments

80:34

all right so we looked at some irregular

80:37

verbs

80:38

earlier in this live stream hopefully

80:40

you know the answers to these so you're

80:43

going to match the irregular past tense

80:46

form

80:47

with the verb

80:48

maybe you could take a moment to think

80:50

about this

80:51

if you know put the answers in the

80:53

comments

80:56

and also one of the ways you can write

80:58

this too is like um we wrote before buy

81:02

becomes botch

81:04

if you can type it that way that can

81:06

help people really see

81:07

the main verb the simple form with the

81:11

simple past

81:13

that kind of just makes it easier to see

81:18

good job captain t

81:25

good

81:30

we'll start with go

81:31

so number one

81:33

go becomes

81:36

[Music]

81:38

oh no comments

81:39

oh that's

81:41

interesting great yeah c becomes so

81:45

go becomes

81:47

changes the word completely to

81:50

yeah

81:51

great job

81:53

good

81:57

do becomes ditch

82:00

i'm just gonna let captain t take over

82:02

here yeah

82:04

uh very good

82:05

special lingoni star here

82:09

and then number three c

82:12

i guess we already saw that too c

82:14

becomes saw

82:15

good

82:16

can becomes

82:21

good

82:22

yeah um and good watch the pronunciation

82:25

here can

82:27

could so could only has three sounds

82:34

could you don't say the l in there

82:37

yeah could

82:39

and then yep good so lastly have becomes

82:42

had yep good so hopefully by the end of

82:44

this live stream you know your symbol

82:47

passed

82:48

and your past um continuous yes

82:52

all right

82:53

so moving on to the next part here

82:56

now um choose the correct irregular verb

82:59

from here so a through e

83:02

to fill in the blank here

83:07

yes now you have to use what you've

83:09

learned

83:14

yeah have had

83:15

we've got a new

83:17

commenter

83:21

if that's i hope that's how you say your

83:22

name

83:23

looks like a french name does look

83:25

french yeah

83:27

um all right so

83:29

blank you go shopping this weekend

83:39

well luckily you're in the english live

83:40

stream but if you're bad at french you

83:42

could also check out the lingoni french

83:44

channel yep

83:46

lingoni french also has lots of fun live

83:48

streams yeah

83:49

they do

83:50

and lots of great youtube videos yeah

83:52

lingoni french has existed longer than

83:54

lingonie english yeah so they have a lot

83:57

of materials out there we have a good

83:59

amount but they have even more because

84:01

they've been doing it for longer yep but

84:03

not as long as the

84:05

german

84:06

the german the original

84:08

lingoni channel yeah english is the

84:10

third

84:12

i think anything

84:13

so far

84:14

that's right yeah who knows what the

84:16

future holds

84:18

all right so

84:20

did you go shopping this weekend

84:24

very great

84:25

we blank your friend last weekend

84:29

hmm

84:32

we you

84:33

weren't your friend

84:35

no we couldn't

84:39

we saw we saw we

84:41

saw your friend last weekend yeah again

84:44

remember you're taking these a through e

84:47

these verbs and you're putting them in

84:49

here in the right place yep

84:52

she blank spaghetti for dinner last

84:54

night oh i love spaghetti me too maybe

84:58

i'll have spaghetti soon yeah yeah

85:01

i was watching uh luca the other day

85:03

the disney movie uh

85:05

have you seen this oh my goodness you

85:07

have to see it and they eat um

85:10

a pesto dish with like basil pesto

85:14

and uh

85:16

um

85:18

it looked good it looked great yeah i'm

85:19

like i need to make a pesto dish but i

85:21

think of that as something more summery

85:23

yeah i made it i mean i made a pasta

85:26

last night but it was like a

85:28

parmesan sauce

85:30

that's all it's good

85:32

okay so she oh yeah

85:34

she did spaghetti for dinner last night

85:37

not so much we would maybe say i could

85:40

see what you're thinking because do and

85:42

make are similar verbs you could say she

85:44

made spaghetti for spaghetti for dinner

85:48

last night um but you probably wouldn't

85:50

say did for

85:52

making food um

85:55

yeah here you're gonna use a verb that

85:58

means to eat so another way we say eat

86:00

in english

86:02

is um what is it

86:05

the birds outside are going crazy

86:08

it's a little distracting

86:10

so you could say she had

86:13

spaghetti for dinner last night you can

86:15

use the verb had

86:17

when you're talking about eating

86:18

something so i had eggs for breakfast

86:21

and i had cereal for breakfast

86:24

yes she ate spaghetti for dinner last

86:26

night is also totally fine um it's just

86:29

not in the list so

86:30

that's right

86:32

all right um number nine

86:35

she blank

86:37

not go to the basketball game

86:42

ah captain trd oh wait no

86:46

just kidding

87:02

how do we form the negative

87:04

she

87:08

right yeah

87:09

yeah she did she did not go to the

87:11

basket the baseball game sorry i think i

87:13

said basketball i think you did too yeah

87:15

i read basketball

87:16

it's baseball she did not go to the

87:18

baseball

87:20

game

87:20

um great

87:22

she

87:25

yeah so because it's not we have to use

87:27

did she did not

87:29

go to the baseball game good and then

87:32

lastly i blink to the park with my

87:35

friends

87:43

yeah

87:45

i'm giving away the answer here good

87:46

yeah i went to the park with my friends

87:48

past tense of go yep cool

87:52

um

87:53

and

87:56

remember for did not you can contract as

87:59

didn't so

88:01

did not

88:02

equals didn't

88:04

yup so what's the difference between

88:05

when you use did not and when you used

88:08

didn't

88:11

so mostly when we speak we say didn't

88:15

but

88:16

did not is a little more formal so if

88:19

i'm writing something that's very formal

88:22

i'll only write with

88:24

did not i won't make any contractions i

88:26

would not say can't i would say cannot

88:30

i wouldn't say i'm

88:31

i would say i am.

88:33

um

88:34

but i very rarely write something that

88:37

formal

88:38

even when i write to say like a business

88:41

or to like some government office or

88:44

something in english

88:46

the level of formality in the speech i

88:50

just i do write contractions most of the

88:52

time really only for

88:54

things that are going to be published or

88:56

sent um

88:58

very academic yeah then you don't

89:00

contract so but for your purposes most

89:02

of the time you can contract that's fine

89:04

yeah

89:05

all right moving onwards yep

89:08

okay

89:11

um

89:11

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89:12

which sentence is correct so here we

89:15

have some mistakes

89:17

in some of the sentences there's only

89:20

one that's right

89:32

all right we're going to make this our

89:33

last activity and then we're going to go

89:35

on to

89:36

the past continuous

89:38

right yeah so

89:41

she was happy

89:42

very nice yep good yeah

89:46

she was happy we can't use were

89:49

with

89:50

she she was happy good number two

89:54

so

89:56

is it i see your friend yesterday

89:59

i see your friend yesterday or i saw

90:02

your friend

90:03

yesterday

90:09

decisions decisions

90:16

yup good yeah i saw your friend

90:18

yesterday

90:21

reminds me of a song that i like i saw

90:23

her again

90:24

i'll play for you later yeah yeah good

90:28

three

90:29

emily waist tired emily we're tired or

90:34

emily was tired that was a real young

90:36

really

90:37

good this is a good uh he's gonna say

90:39

your acting skills oh no you're making

90:41

me odd now oh no

90:45

everybody's ready for a nap yeah

90:46

afternoon now yeah maybe after this

90:49

yes it's c emily was tired i was tired

90:53

good

90:55

um all right number four

90:59

dough do you go shopping

91:01

did you go shopping or did you went

91:04

shopping hmm this is a tricky one some

91:06

common mistake is

91:08

is in this one yep let's see if you can

91:11

avoid it

91:13

what's the correct answer

91:19

four

91:21

great yeah captain t has got it again

91:23

yep did you go shopping

91:25

that's it did you go shopping

91:28

uh be careful this is a common mistake

91:30

did you went shopping is not correct

91:32

right

91:33

you use the simple form of the verb did

91:35

you go shopping

91:38

and then five

91:40

um

91:42

did you say hi to him

91:44

did you

91:46

oh it's hard do did you say hi to him

91:50

hard to say it wrong

91:52

uh and then it was you say hi to him no

91:54

it's did you say hi to him good job yeah

91:58

great

91:59

so this is an example of one of the

92:01

worksheets we have again in the comments

92:04

below you can find a link to use the

92:06

lingoni english app there we have all

92:09

kinds of not just worksheets like this

92:11

we have interactive exercises you can

92:13

watch our videos listen to our podcasts

92:17

we have so much to help you improve your

92:19

english there so go ahead and check it

92:21

out you get the seven-day free trial um

92:23

and then after that you can choose what

92:25

kind of subscription you would want to

92:27

have um so there's different options for

92:29

that too yep yeah cool um should we get

92:32

to we don't have so much time left um

92:34

the past continuous oh you're showing

92:36

them our notes oh

92:40

um do click there yeah

92:42

um

92:44

yeah

92:45

okay um

92:47

they're getting a sneak peek yeah really

92:49

okay past continuous um

92:52

why don't you uh put those on the screen

92:54

like

92:55

the shares are gonna get yeah uh

92:59

uh these ones yeah these two sentences

93:02

okay

93:02

you don't need the first part though

93:04

just that

93:06

all right so we have two sentences we're

93:07

going to share with you here

93:12

do i show them

93:14

you're there

93:17

oh i don't know what yours is doing

93:19

actually okay we'll just leave it for

93:20

now okay so we have the sentence

93:22

i'll type them again just so they're

93:24

kind of separate as well

93:29

so when the guests arrived marcus was

93:32

cooking dinner

93:34

we also have

93:38

when the guests arrived marcus cooked

93:41

dinner

93:42

do these sentences mean the same thing

93:48

is there a difference

93:50

there must be a difference if there's

93:52

two different ways of saying them

93:54

there's got to be something a little bit

93:56

different one from the other

93:59

so

94:01

which one is in the simple past

94:05

marcus was cooking dinner is that simple

94:07

past

94:10

no

94:10

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94:11

that's the past continuous

94:13

or the past progressive

94:16

so

94:17

the ones with the symbol passed is let's

94:19

look at this one first

94:21

um

94:24

i'm gonna make this larger

94:28

so

94:29

when the guests arrived marcus cooked

94:31

dinner

94:32

what this means is first

94:35

the guests arrived to marcus's house or

94:38

apartment or wherever right

94:42

then

94:43

marcus cooked dinner he began

94:46

cooking dinner he started step one then

94:49

step two

94:50

right

94:51

when the guests arrived

94:53

marcus cooked dinner yeah one and then

94:55

two

94:57

but when the guests arrived marcus was

95:01

cooking dinner

95:03

that means that marcus started cooking

95:05

dinner

95:07

time continued

95:09

the guests arrived

95:12

and he kept cooking dinner

95:15

so

95:16

marcus was doing this action and it went

95:19

on for a long time yeah and something

95:21

came between it

95:23

something interrupted something happened

95:26

during so he was cooking dinner

95:28

during this time

95:30

the guests arrived you can imagine they

95:33

came and probably said something like oh

95:35

my gosh it smells so good in here it

95:37

looks so good because he was already in

95:39

the process of cooking it was already

95:41

happening

95:44

um

95:46

let's look at some more examples of the

95:48

past

95:48

um

95:50

the past continuous aka the past

95:52

progressive i'm just going to type this

95:53

for you too

95:54

um

96:00

you can use either name of this you

96:02

could say past continuous or past

96:04

progressive um

96:06

yeah try saying that to yourself past

96:08

continuous past progressive i like the

96:11

word continuous um more than progress

96:13

though because it shows that it's a

96:15

continuing action it's something that's

96:16

going on

96:18

for a long period of time which is part

96:20

of when we use the past continuous

96:23

so i prefer that because it reminds me

96:25

of when to use it like why

96:29

so he was talking

96:32

on the phone for hours last night

96:35

he was talking on the phone for hours

96:38

last night

96:40

right that's one more example

96:44

let's look at another one

96:47

i read this one yeah we were traveling

96:50

on the train when it suddenly stopped

96:54

so we were traveling

96:56

and then suddenly stopped

97:00

right

97:02

so how do we know when to use

97:05

the past continuous

97:07

there are a couple different times when

97:10

we use it

97:11

so first is for ongoing action where

97:14

it's not clear or important when it's

97:17

stopped

97:18

so for example you want to read this one

97:21

yeah i was cleaning all day long

97:24

when did i start i don't know when did i

97:26

stop

97:27

not important

97:29

i just know it lasted a long time during

97:32

the day

97:33

i was cleaning

97:35

all day long

97:38

and

97:39

again is this the present or the past

97:44

or the future or the future no the

97:46

future doesn't exist yet

97:49

it's the past maybe it was yesterday

97:52

maybe it was three months ago but

97:55

either way it was in the past and i was

97:57

cleaning all day

98:03

another one where it's um oops got a

98:06

little extra bracket in there for fun

98:09

um so brian was working the whole week

98:14

when did he start working we don't know

98:17

maybe he started on monday maybe i

98:19

started on tuesday it's not exactly

98:22

specific

98:23

um but that's not important

98:25

we just know that i was working the

98:27

whole week

98:30

um

98:31

so again ongoing action where it's not

98:34

important when it started or ended we

98:36

also use this to set the scene so we saw

98:39

this a little bit with um

98:41

we were traveling on the train when it

98:43

suddenly stopped

98:45

so

98:46

you're sort of painting a picture

98:49

with this beginning part

98:51

kind of imagine you're telling a story

98:53

to somebody right

98:55

so that's what they what we mean with

98:56

setting the scene you can imagine like a

98:58

movie scene right that's like the the

99:01

picture of the movie that's a scene and

99:03

so you're setting a scene you're giving

99:05

context to the situation and the world

99:09

around you at that moment we were

99:12

traveling on the train you can envision

99:14

us sitting on the train when it suddenly

99:17

stopped

99:19

okay what's another

99:23

ah i was sitting in the park listening

99:26

to music

99:27

when this cute dog came up to me

99:31

so i'm giving you you can see

99:33

the picture of what i'm doing i'm in the

99:35

park listening to music and

99:38

now a dog is here

99:40

yeah you're painting that picture

99:42

what was happening you know

99:45

giving it context

99:47

all right

99:49

and then um

99:50

[Music]

99:53

and also we use the past continuous to

99:56

show one action interrupting another

99:58

again we saw this with the train i was i

100:01

was traveling or we were traveling on

100:03

the train

100:04

when it suddenly stopped

100:06

the stopping action interrupted

100:09

the traveling same thing with marcus was

100:12

cooking

100:13

when the guests arrived

100:16

um so

100:17

they didn't stop him from

100:20

um

100:21

from cooking

100:22

but that happened during his cooking

100:25

time yeah another example

100:28

i was working

100:30

when you called me

100:33

maybe i answered the phone maybe i

100:35

didn't but i was working when he called

100:38

me

100:39

okay with all these examples

100:42

how do we form

100:43

the past continuous

100:46

so this one's hopefully a little easier

100:49

um

100:50

than the simple past there are fewer

100:52

irregular verbs

100:54

um

100:55

all you do is

100:57

um

100:59

let's see

101:00

can you tell us actually

101:02

we know the answers so look at the

101:04

examples we gave you

101:06

how do you form the past continuous

101:22

how do you form the past continuous and

101:24

again look at our examples

101:45

you see a pattern

101:53

so for example

101:55

i was working

101:57

i was working

102:02

yeah yeah yep

102:07

so we have subject plus

102:10

great captain he said it the conjugated

102:12

form of b

102:13

which would be was or were

102:16

plus verb in the ing form

102:22

so i was working

102:24

we were traveling

102:27

i was working

102:29

yeah great yeah

102:31

yeah perfect

102:33

not so bad right

102:35

yeah

102:36

um

102:37

and we already saw

102:39

the forms of b in the past tense

102:42

i'm afraid to copy this whole list yeah

102:45

but we know that it's i she he it was

102:49

and you

102:51

we and they were right

102:55

um

102:56

and

102:57

making the ing forms of verbs is overall

103:00

pretty simple you just add ing to the

103:03

end so we saw this with i was working

103:06

i was going

103:08

they were talking we were eating

103:12

just adding ing to the end

103:18

so

103:19

walk becomes walking

103:21

go going

103:22

etc

103:26

now there are some that

103:28

you have to make a couple of little

103:30

changes they're not so bad though those

103:33

are irregular

103:35

for example if you have a vowel and

103:38

consonant at the end of your word you're

103:41

going to double the consonant so

103:44

get

103:45

becomes

103:46

getting

103:50

it becomes getting

103:52

sit

103:53

becomes

103:54

setting we were sitting in our chairs

103:59

fast

104:00

run becomes running

104:03

i was running

104:05

when i tripped and fell

104:07

on the ground

104:12

all right um and then also verbs that

104:15

end in e

104:16

all you do is you take away the e

104:19

and you add ing

104:23

so

104:24

take

104:25

would become

104:26

taking

104:29

what about leave

104:32

i'll type that here

104:36

leave becomes what

104:40

or make

104:45

what does make

104:46

become about half

104:49

oh that's a good one

104:55

we have lots of possibilities lots of

104:57

verbs ending in e

104:58

now these in the symbol path so we saw

105:00

this before the um

105:03

vowel consonant the doubling there we

105:05

saw that a little bit with the simple

105:07

past two but this happens even more

105:11

with the continuous form with the ing

105:15

yeah making

105:16

perfect without an e very nice

105:21

and have becomes

105:25

happening perfect

105:27

leaving making great awesome yeah good

105:29

work everyone teamwork yeah teamwork

105:32

makes the dream work okay so i was

105:35

making cookies

105:37

uh she was leaving

105:39

her

105:41

[Music]

105:43

not a house plane yep

105:46

always think of songs that help you

105:48

remember

105:51

good so

105:52

um

105:54

let's see

105:56

now

105:57

forming questions now

105:59

for example

106:00

um

106:03

let's say emily and i are

106:06

talking to each other

106:07

and

106:09

um

106:11

i call her this morning she's not at my

106:13

house

106:14

i'm not at her house and i say hey emily

106:18

i called you 10 times yesterday

106:22

oh

106:23

what were you doing

106:25

you didn't answer my calls oh my gosh i

106:28

am

106:29

so sorry

106:31

i

106:32

was working

106:33

all day so and i turned my phone off

106:36

wow

106:37

yeah okay

106:38

understandable yeah

106:40

um so

106:42

if you want to know

106:44

what a person was doing at a specific

106:46

time you asked that what were you doing

106:49

what were you doing

106:52

at a specific time

106:55

what were you doing

106:58

during

107:00

the concert yeah what were you doing

107:02

during the concert

107:04

i was listening to the band were you

107:06

dancing um yeah i was dancing too were

107:09

you singing

107:10

sometimes i sang a little bit

107:12

yeah

107:13

yeah and what were you doing during the

107:15

concert i was sleeping oh no

107:17

no

107:18

i was tired

107:20

good um

107:24

so of course with the um

107:27

past continuous when you're forming a

107:29

question here what were you doing um

107:32

or maybe

107:34

um i could hear

107:37

a sound in the background when i called

107:39

emily

107:40

and um today when she came to visit i

107:43

might ask her hey were you cooking this

107:45

morning

107:50

were you cooking this morning

107:52

and again the structure it's was or were

107:55

plus subject

107:58

plus

107:59

verb

108:00

in the ing form

108:02

were you cooking yeah

108:05

um

108:07

was he

108:08

making lunch

108:11

were you taking turns

108:14

things like that

108:15

yeah and then to form the negative just

108:17

to kind of wrap things up here

108:19

um

108:22

how would you put these in the negative

108:23

form

108:24

can you can you let us know

108:28

so i could ask her were you cooking this

108:30

morning that's our question but

108:33

the answer is no

108:37

no

108:43

how would she answer that question in

108:45

the negative form

108:47

were you cooking this morning

108:49

no

108:54

no i wasn't cooking this morning that's

108:58

right

108:59

i wasn't was not

109:04

were you

109:05

studying german this morning

109:08

um

109:10

no i wasn't studying german this morning

109:12

what were you doing um

109:15

i was having coffee oh

109:18

all morning all morning i was having

109:20

coffee

109:21

um

109:23

yeah

109:24

captain t wasn't cooking

109:26

captain t wasn't cooking either

109:28

nor was emily good

109:31

um

109:32

[Music]

109:33

now as far as common mistakes go with

109:36

the past continuous

109:37

you tend to have there are certain verbs

109:40

we don't use that much in the past

109:42

continuous so these are stative verbs um

109:46

a really common one is you cannot

109:49

i think you can never say

109:51

was knowing

109:54

was over knowing yeah no

110:02

yeah

110:03

so

110:05

no is one of those verbs you don't use

110:07

in

110:08

the past continuous or really any

110:11

continuous think of it because when you

110:13

know something it's one time you

110:16

if you meet someone or you learn a fact

110:20

or some information it's not something

110:21

that's going on

110:23

you just know it or you don't

110:25

or you know the person or you don't so i

110:28

know her

110:29

i'm not knowing

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yeah it's just yeah it's a

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it's kind of a strange verb but yeah

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there's no real clear beginning or end

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to it so there's no continuous form of

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it these are called state of verbs um

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and i have a actually another youtube

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video on this topic like we also have a

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youtube video on the simple past as well

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so you can check that out on our channel

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um and there you can find out a little

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bit more information about it yeah um i

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think that like mostly wraps things up

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for today is there more that you wanted

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to add

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i don't think so yeah okay yeah if

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there's any confusion though like brian

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said

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search um lingoni english state of verbs

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or um lingoni english simple past

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and you can kind of re re-watch

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most of the stuff we went over today and

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of course you can watch this live stream

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again

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um

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it'll be posted to our channel

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yeah and then great question um captain

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t so forgetting uh remember this is one

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of those ep so you double the consonant

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um

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you would not i wouldn't use forgetting

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in the continuous form i was forgetting

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no

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uh you know i forgot just the same yeah

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like right now i'm forgetting it you

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could maybe you're like i think i know

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i think maybe no you just say i forget

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yeah if people ever say that it's just

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one of those weird little mistakes that

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native speakers will sometimes make

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when we're not thinking

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no you can keep forgetting something but

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that's a little different and yeah it's

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not the same yeah

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that

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