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when we talk about moments in the past
we can use many different forms an
example of the most common form is the
past simple for example I went to New
York last week the form we used here is
subject verb in past or verb too and the
object but when we tell a story about
the past we probably won’t only use the
past simple for example I was talking to
my friend for this I used past
continuous and the form is subject B in
the past so was or were depending on the
subject and the verb with ing which is
called Jarrett and the object okay now
you’re going to watch your story before
you watch get a pen and paper you’re
going to write the actions that you see
in either past simple or past continuous
oh my god something crazy happened last
night
so now you’re going to watch again with
the answers oh my god something crazy
happened last night so I was having sex
with my girlfriend and then suddenly the
cat jumped on the bed so he stopped and
looked it was staring at us and meowing
at us it was really strange I had to
stop I had to shoot it in the face it
was just so strange
if you got everything correct well done
you’re a genius if not continue watching
okay let’s look at each action of the
story
imagine this timeline represents the
time of the story the first action is
have sex the duration of this action is
quite long and lasts the whole of the
story for that reason because it’s the
background action happening all the time
in the story we’ll say it in past
continuous so I was having sex our next
action is the cat jump it happened once
very short time in the middle of the
having sex so we say it in past simple
the cat jumped on the bed our next
action exactly the same reason the stop
so we will just say we stopped the next
action exactly the same notice you have
passed simple past simple and this one
we looked also past simple to list past
simple actions will show the order of
events the next action is the cat stare
the cat stare lasted a long time he
wants to put emphasis on a long time for
that reason he said the cat was staring
at us so here’s another reason for past
continuous it puts emphasis on a long
time the next action was the cat meow
this happened a few times many many
times and this is also another reason to
use past continuous the cat was meowing
something happens many many times
continuous puts emphasis on that
so we have a few reasons to use past
simple and past continuous with past
continuous background actions I was
having sex repeated actions
the cat was meowing for long actions the
cat was staring for a long time past
simple basically the important actions
in the story but they’re short actions
and usually only happen once okey-dokey
now you’re going to watch another
cartoon in this story notice when we use
past simple and when we use past
continuous but also the reasons why we
use each form November 1938 it was
raining and I was hungry she looked at
me and said nice night isn’t it she was
smoking a cigarette knee tapping her
fingers on the table she was talking to
me but I couldn’t hear anything I wasn’t
thinking about anything other than the
woman just outside she was holding some
hay in her hand
I answered the waitress jelly
time for a test in these situations
should we write past simple or past
continuous write your answers and follow
the link after the video to check
remember these are video classes so you
can pause or rewind if you didn’t know
the stencil watch again and again until
you feel completely comfortable using
the new grammar and the new vocabulary
remember leave your comments or
questions and tell your friends about us
your class starts now
when we talk about moments in the past
we can use many different forms an
example of the most common form is the
past simple for example I went to New
York last week the form we used here is
subject verb in past or verb too and the
object but when we tell a story about
the past we probably won’t only use the
past simple for example I was talking to
my friend for this I used past
continuous and the form is subject B in
the past so was or were depending on the
subject and the verb with ing which is
called Jarrett and the object okay now
you’re going to watch your story before
you watch get a pen and paper you’re
going to write the actions that you see
in either past simple or past continuous
oh my god something crazy happened last
night
so now you’re going to watch again with
the answers oh my god something crazy
happened last night so I was having sex
with my girlfriend and then suddenly the
cat jumped on the bed so he stopped and
looked it was staring at us and meowing
at us it was really strange I had to
stop I had to shoot it in the face it
was just so strange
if you got everything correct well done
you’re a genius if not continue watching
okay let’s look at each action of the
story
imagine this timeline represents the
time of the story the first action is
have sex the duration of this action is
quite long and lasts the whole of the
story for that reason because it’s the
background action happening all the time
in the story we’ll say it in past
continuous so I was having sex our next
action is the cat jump it happened once
very short time in the middle of the
having sex so we say it in past simple
the cat jumped on the bed our next
action exactly the same reason the stop
so we will just say we stopped the next
action exactly the same notice you have
passed simple past simple and this one
we looked also past simple to list past
simple actions will show the order of
events the next action is the cat stare
the cat stare lasted a long time he
wants to put emphasis on a long time for
that reason he said the cat was staring
at us so here’s another reason for past
continuous it puts emphasis on a long
time the next action was the cat meow
this happened a few times many many
times and this is also another reason to
use past continuous the cat was meowing
something happens many many times
continuous puts emphasis on that
so we have a few reasons to use past
simple and past continuous with past
continuous background actions I was
having sex repeated actions
the cat was meowing for long actions the
cat was staring for a long time past
simple basically the important actions
in the story but they’re short actions
and usually only happen once okey-dokey
now you’re going to watch another
cartoon in this story notice when we use
past simple and when we use past
continuous but also the reasons why we
use each form November 1938 it was
raining and I was hungry she looked at
me and said nice night isn’t it she was
smoking a cigarette knee tapping her
fingers on the table she was talking to
me but I couldn’t hear anything I wasn’t
thinking about anything other than the
woman just outside she was holding some
hay in her hand
I answered the waitress jelly
time for a test in these situations
should we write past simple or past
continuous write your answers and follow
the link after the video to check
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