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Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning the past simple tense and some useful Christmas vocabulary.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be learning how to form the past simple tense
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to people reminiscing about past festive times.
So Let’s start!
Woman: How do you form the past simple? Well for regular verbs in the affirmative it is quite simple, you just add “ed” to the end of the verb
Now listen to these examples:
Man: I visited my grandmother last week.
Man: I watched an old Christmas film last night.
Man: I worked over 20 hours yesterday.
Woman: However, if a verb ends in “y”, we add “ied” at the end.
Now listen to these examples:
Man: I studied phrasal verbs yesterday morning.
Man: I married my wife 10 years ago.
Woman: However there are a lot of irregular verbs, which if you want to speak English properly, you must learn:
e.g. go = went, do = did, eat = ate, drink = drank, drive = drove,
buy = bought etc.
Now listen to these examples:
Man: I drank too much spumante last Christmas Eve.
Man: I ate too many mince pies last Christmas, and put on 10 kilos of weight in 1 week.
Man: I did my Christmas shopping in November last year, to avoid the queues.
Woman: To ask questions In the simple past, the form is did + subject + verb, e.g. Did you go shopping last week?
Listen to some more examples:
Man: What did you do last New Year’s Eve?
Man: What did you do last Christmas?
Woman: To use the negative in the past simple, the form is subject+didn’t+verb.
E.g. I didn’t go to England last year, I celebrated Christmas in Italy instead.
Now listen to these examples:
Man: I didn’t study for my exams last December, I was too busy partying.
Man: I didn’t get many presents last Christmas.
Woman: Now let’s listen to these words in a dialogue between two people sharing memories of their last Christmas.
Woman: I can’t believe the shops have Christmas decorations in the windows already – and it’s only October.
Man: Well, some people say it’s too early, but I love it myself, it starts the magic of Christmas time early.
Woman: Don’t tell me you are doing your Christmas shopping already?
Man: Actually, last year, I started shopping in November – I have a very big family.
Woman: Wow! I didn’t do mine until Christmas Eve?
Man: You mean the 24th of December? Was there anything left in the shops?
Woman: Of course, I bought all my presents in one morning, and I even got some discounts too.
Man: How did you manage to wrap all your presents on time?
Woman: At the shops, they “gift-wrap” for free.
Man: I didn’t know that. I spent hours last year, wrapping everything up. I’ll get the shops to do it this year.
Woman: And what did you receive for Christmas last year?
Man: Oh, all sorts of goodies. My children know how to spoil me. What about you?
Woman: I got a new car – to replace the one I crashed. My husband even gift wrapped it, so it was a fantastic surprise, when he took me to the garage to collect it.
Woman: If you wish you can hear this lesson again. In the meantime we hope we have helped you to be more confident with your English. Watch out for the next topic. Thank you for using the EnglishBlog.
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