Hi! Have you ever gotten a little confused when telling a story in the past tense or when telling someone's life story? Or do you get a little stressed when you have to speak in one of the past tenses? If so, this video is for you.
Before moving on to the content and the little game that we have prepared for you, I remind you right now that you can do a quiz that is linked to the content of this video. All you have to do is click on the first link at the bottom to test yourself. You can already open this in a new tab and test your understanding at the end of this video.
Today, we are offering you a somewhat unusual activity. It is an oral practice activity to try to master the past tenses and we are going to do it in the form of a game. It is quite important, in fact, since we use the past in many situations, to tell stories, anecdotes, to tell parts of our lives, etc.
The idea of this game is to put yourself in a situation and tell stories in the past tense. For example, you can tell the story of someone's life, a famous person, anyone. And when telling the story of this person's life, you will necessarily need to use the past tenses. So of course, it pushes us, it forces us to use the right past tenses at the right time. We're not here to try to make unnatural sentences, so it pushes us to use the right tenses in the different moments of the story.
The idea here is to give you two stories. So uae whatsapp number data I'm going to tell you two stories about two different people, two famous historical figures. So I'm going to use a lot of past tenses and you're going to have to guess who it is. Then you can repeat this exercise yourself by trying to tell the life of another character from the past. That will push you to use all these tenses.
Before we start the game, we would like to remind you of the different past tenses, the six past tenses.
You have the near past or the recent past. It is used to describe a situation that has just happened. For example: I just got back. I got home, I just got back just now or a few minutes ago.
The past tense. It is used to express a specific action defined in time. For example: I came home an hour ago.
The imperfect. The imperfect is used to describe a setting, a habit or a habit that is little or not defined in time. For example: When I worked, I always came home late.
We put a link in the description and in the "i" as info because we made a video in which we explain the difference between the imperfect and the passé composé. You can go take a look.