00:00:01hi welcome to class
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00:00:09the stencil watch again and again until
00:00:12you feel completely comfortable using
00:00:14the new grammar and the new vocabulary
00:00:17remember leave your comments or
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00:00:22your class starts now
00:00:33when we talk about moments in the past
00:00:36we can use many different forms an
00:00:39example of the most common form is the
00:00:43past simple for example I went to New
00:00:46York last week the form we used here is
00:00:49subject verb in past or verb too and the
00:00:54object but when we tell a story about
00:00:57the past we probably won’t only use the
00:01:01past simple for example I was talking to
00:01:05my friend for this I used past
00:01:09continuous and the form is subject B in
00:01:14the past so was or were depending on the
00:01:18subject and the verb with ing which is
00:01:23called Jarrett and the object okay now
00:01:29you’re going to watch your story before
00:01:31you watch get a pen and paper you’re
00:01:34going to write the actions that you see
00:01:36in either past simple or past continuous
00:01:40oh my god something crazy happened last
00:01:48night
00:02:31so now you’re going to watch again with
00:02:34the answers oh my god something crazy
00:02:38happened last night so I was having sex
00:02:45with my girlfriend and then suddenly the
00:02:48cat jumped on the bed so he stopped and
00:02:52looked it was staring at us and meowing
00:02:58at us it was really strange I had to
00:03:08stop I had to shoot it in the face it
00:03:16was just so strange
00:03:22if you got everything correct well done
00:03:25you’re a genius if not continue watching
00:03:30okay let’s look at each action of the
00:03:34story
00:03:35imagine this timeline represents the
00:03:38time of the story the first action is
00:03:41have sex the duration of this action is
00:03:45quite long and lasts the whole of the
00:03:47story for that reason because it’s the
00:03:50background action happening all the time
00:03:53in the story we’ll say it in past
00:03:55continuous so I was having sex our next
00:04:02action is the cat jump it happened once
00:04:05very short time in the middle of the
00:04:07having sex so we say it in past simple
00:04:11the cat jumped on the bed our next
00:04:16action exactly the same reason the stop
00:04:20so we will just say we stopped the next
00:04:24action exactly the same notice you have
00:04:29passed simple past simple and this one
00:04:31we looked also past simple to list past
00:04:35simple actions will show the order of
00:04:38events the next action is the cat stare
00:04:43the cat stare lasted a long time he
00:04:46wants to put emphasis on a long time for
00:04:50that reason he said the cat was staring
00:04:53at us so here’s another reason for past
00:04:56continuous it puts emphasis on a long
00:04:59time the next action was the cat meow
00:05:03this happened a few times many many
00:05:06times and this is also another reason to
00:05:09use past continuous the cat was meowing
00:05:12something happens many many times
00:05:16continuous puts emphasis on that
00:05:20so we have a few reasons to use past
00:05:22simple and past continuous with past
00:05:26continuous background actions I was
00:05:29having sex repeated actions
00:05:32the cat was meowing for long actions the
00:05:36cat was staring for a long time past
00:05:40simple basically the important actions
00:05:44in the story but they’re short actions
00:05:47and usually only happen once okey-dokey
00:05:53now you’re going to watch another
00:05:55cartoon in this story notice when we use
00:05:59past simple and when we use past
00:06:02continuous but also the reasons why we
00:06:06use each form November 1938 it was
00:06:18raining and I was hungry she looked at
00:06:22me and said nice night isn’t it she was
00:06:26smoking a cigarette knee tapping her
00:06:28fingers on the table she was talking to
00:06:31me but I couldn’t hear anything I wasn’t
00:06:35thinking about anything other than the
00:06:37woman just outside she was holding some
00:06:40hay in her hand
00:06:42I answered the waitress jelly
00:07:05time for a test in these situations
00:07:09should we write past simple or past
00:07:12continuous write your answers and follow
00:07:15the link after the video to check