Past continuous overview

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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