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Step Six.1 |
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| Past Tenses | die
vergangenen Zeiten | les
temps passés | i
tempi passati |
los
tiempos pasados |
os
tempos passados |
| . My friend had left me and I was unhappy... . |
| Listen & repeat |
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| The
Simple Past Tense | I
weighed 99 kilos. |
Did
your girl- friend say you were fat? |
No,
she didn't say that.... |
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| .=
the completed past . | |||||
| The
Past Perfect Tense |
...because
she'd |
But
had she really liked you? |
No,
she hadn't ever really been serious about me.. |
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| =
looking back further ...into the past | |||||
| The
Past Perfect Continuous Tense | I'd
been eating from the fridge at night. |
Had
nobody been checking the fridge? |
No,
my mother hadn't been checking. |
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as above, but stress on continuity = non-stop | |||||
| The
Past Continuous Tense | I
was eating 6 Big Macs a day! |
Why
were you eating so much? |
I
wasn't eating because I was hungry.. |
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a specific moment or period in the past | |||||
| . Then I met someone new and everything changed... . | |||||
| The
Present Perfect Tense | I've
lost 10 kilos! |
Haven't
you felt hungry? |
No,
I haven't had time to feel hungry! |
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| .= the recent past | |||||
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Summary:........................
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| The Past Conditional |
| If I'd met her sooner, I wouldn't have got* fat | Would
you have got fatter if you hadn't met her? |
Well,
I wouldn't have got thinner! |
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| * To Get = | |
| he got... rich, fat, thin, lazy, careless, married, wise | |
| he got... a salary increase, a kiss, a present, a car | |
| he got... up, out of the prison, into the car, through immigration. | |
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| for, since, ago |
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