Overview

So in the last lesson we talked about how to describe things clearly right.

In this lesson we’re going to also focus on something that’s very very important to know how to do to know how to use if you want to be able to speak English.

Well if you feel very very comfortable with different verb tenses which is what we’re going to talk about in this lesson you can skip this one and go to the next.

But if you don’t feel totally confident then you really need to watch this lesson very carefully.

We do this one and the last lesson because it’s so important to have these things first before we go on to some of the more fun stuff like inviting people to do things or hanging out at a coffee shop or ordering stuff.

That’s a lot more maybe fun and interesting but we really need to make sure we have the what I would call fundamentals.

Oh I don’t even have room fundamentals down.

This should be done.

Fundamentals down.

Before we get into that other stuff.

So a tense what is that what is what is a verb tense.

Well in English when you’re saying things that happen you’re talking about what happened and you need to say when it happened yesterday tomorrow today.

Now we use different verb tenses to basically say when the action happen we have to change verbs.

I’m sure you know this.

We have to change verbs according to when things happen so that they agree with each other.

Right.

And this can be a little confusing.

Sometimes it’s simple sometimes it’s not.

We’re going to go through these and I’m going to give you examples examples are the best way to learn how to use verb tenses because knowing these names.

Simple right past simple tense progressive tense.

Knowing these names is not that important.

If you don’t learn the names of grammar things that’s fine because you’re not an English teacher right.

I need to know the names of different kinds of grammar but nobody else does.

So don’t worry about that so much focus on the examples and try to get the feeling for them.

And then I’ll give you some practice to do so that you can actually understand hopefully deeply how to use different verb tenses and it can become I hope a habit for you so that when you’re speaking you don’t have to think about it.

OK.

That is the goal that you can use these naturally.

You don’t need to think.

So let’s get started.