Lesson 101 👩‍🏫Basic English with Jennifer - Simple Past in Conversation

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English with Jennifer


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Hi everyone. I'm Jennifer from English with Jennifer. Let's study basic English
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together. You can learn with my students, Flavia and Andreia. Flavia and Andreia
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practiced asking me questions about my vacation photos.
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Let's review common questions. Can you put the words in order?
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Where was that?
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When was that?
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When did you go there?
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Did you have fun?
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How long were you there?
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Ladies, how are you today? Good. And you? Pretty good. Just a little hot. How are you, Andreia? Good. Good, good.
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Well, today is Friday, and I want to know -- how was your week? So, can you tell me: how is your
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week and what did you do? Did you do anything special? Monday, Tuesday,
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Wednesday, Thursday. How was your week? Nothing. Did you go anywhere?
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No. You stayed at home? Yes. What did you do yesterday? Yesterday? Nothing. I stayed at home. I'm on vacation.
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How about you? Did you go anywhere? Yesterday I visit...I visited my friend. Does she live far away? She she lives
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in Westborough. How many minutes does it take to get there? One hour. Oh! Wow.
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You traveled for one hour to see your friend. It must be a good friend.
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Yes, a special friend. Yeah I want to talk more about things that you've done in the past. We've been
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practicing forming questions like: Where was that? When was that? When were you
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there? Did you like it? Did you have fun? How long were you there? I told you about
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my trip to Niagara Falls. Do you have photos to share today? And we can ask
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questions about where you went and when you went there. Okay. Flavia, do you have a
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photo to share? Oh, how beautiful! I love the colors. Yeah. Yeah. Ask some questions.
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Where was that? It was north...in..of Brazil. In Brazil. In the northern region? Okay. It's beautiful.
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time of the year was that? When was that? When was that? Was that...Ah two years
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ago. Okay. It was two years ago, but was it and like was it in the beginning
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of the year, like January? Was it February? April. It was in April. Yeah. It it always like that?
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Yes. Okay. So beautiful. What else could we ask? How about a question with "who"? Do you remember that one?
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Who were you with? who were you with?
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Or who was with you? Either one makes sense. One more time. Who was with you? It's easy.
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Who was with you? My husband was with me. Who took a picture? Yes. He took the picture. How long were you there?
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Ah, one week. Was that a surfer? Yes.
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Nice. Did you go surfing? No. Did you go swimming? Yeah. Okay. Lovely.
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Do you have a photo?
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Where was that?
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It is...no? It was. It was in a casino. Oh, it was in a casino. Yes. Nice. In Boston. Mm-hmm.
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When was that? When was that? When? When was that? Was it this year? Last year?
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Three weeks ago. Oh. Three weeks ago. You can ask, "When was that?" or "When did you go?" Yeah.
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When did you go? We went three weeks ago.
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Did you win money or did you lose money? A little. Did you win a little or did you lose a little?
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Lose. So lose - - lost. We lost a little money. We lost a little money. But did you have fun? Yes.
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Okay. Then it's okay. Flavia is lucky. She was lucky. Oh. Did you win? Did you win a little or a lot? A little.
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I win...won ten dollars. It makes you happy.
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When you win a dollar, it's like, "Woohoo! I got a dollar."
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I think that's why people go. It's just for fun. If it's just a little money. A lot of money, I think it dangerous.
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But a little money...when you gamble with a little money...The verb is "gamble." Gamble. When you play with
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money to win or to lose, that's "to gamble." Gamble. Yes. So, gambling with a little bit of
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money can be fun. Gambling with a lot is dangerous. Yes. Yeah. It can be. How long were you there?
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Three hours. For about three hours. Uh-huh. I want to know about the number of
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people. A lot of people . A few people. What question could I ask? At the casino, maybe
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there were ten people. Maybe there were 100 people. Maybe there were a thousand.
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How many people was...were there? How many people were there?
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Or I can ask were there a lot of people?
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Were there? There were a lot of people. The question... we switch. Were there...were there a lot of people?
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Yes. Yeah? A lot of people. A lot of people were there. But you had fun. Yes.
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There are many questions we can ask when we look at someone's photo. When Andreia and I saw a
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photo of Flavia on the beach, we asked, "Where was that?" We also wanted to know
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who took the picture, so we asked, "Who was with you?" Or, 'Who were
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you with? If you're looking at a picture of a public place, you can ask a question
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about the number of people there. You can ask, "Were there a lot of people?" "Were
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there a lot of people there?" Or, "Was it crowded?" Okay. Now we're going to practice
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using the time words WHEN, BEFORE, and AFTER. Help me complete a text about my
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trip to Niagara Falls. Choose the right words to complete the sentences.
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Here are my choices: before, when, after. In that last sentence, you can use "after" or
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"when." After we came home...when we came home... "When" means at that time. When we
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came home, we gave the souvenir. "After" means following, like first one action
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and then another action followed. After we came home, we gave the souvenir. Bin
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this case, both time words can work. So, I want you to take turns and describe the
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trips that you took, the places that you went to. For example, we went to Niagara
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Falls in 2016. This was in Canada. And before we went to Canada, we got
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passports for the children. Before we went to Canada, the children got
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passports. Then we went to Canada. When we were there, we took lots of photos. We
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saw the waterfalls, and we took a tour, and we went behind the waterfalls, not
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above, not below. We went behind the waterfalls, and we saw the water. It was exciting. Um,
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we bought souvenirs, and my husband wasn't there, so he got his souvenir
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after we came home. So I want you to think about somewhere you went and tell
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us about it. When, before, after. What did you do before?
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What did you do after? What did you do when you were there? Okay?
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Did you find a photo? Oh, you look so pretty! You look like a toothpaste commercial.
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Your teeth are so white. You're going be like, "Buy this toothpaste."
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That's very beautiful.
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Where was that? It was in New York. Oh. What else can you ask? Where was that? Oh...okay.
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So, where was that? It was in New York. Do you know the word "exactly"? Where exactly was
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that? Because we know it's New York. Now you want to know the place. Where exactly
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was that? Where exactly was that? Where exactly was that?
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It was in Rockefeller Center. Oh. You're so high. Yes.
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There's so many places to see in New York. Can you tell us what you did before
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Rockefeller Center and what you did after? Before I went to Rockefeller
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Center, I was in Central Park. Nice. Yeah. And after I went to Rockefeller Center,
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I was in Times Square. Nice. I know there's always a lot of people in Times Square.
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Um, what did you do in Central Park?
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I walked. We walked. Okay. So you can say, "When we were in New York, we saw Times Square,
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Rockefeller Center, and Central Park." Yes. When I was in New York... Okay? Good. Did you do anything else
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in New York? Did you see anything else? When I was in New York... When I was in New York,
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I visited the Liberty...no, the Statue of Liberty. Very good.
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Did you go up? No. No? You just took pictures?
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And be careful when you use "visit." I need to hear "visited."
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When I visited New York or when I was in New York, we visited the Statute of Liberty.
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We saw the Statue of Liberty. Very nice. New York is fun. Yeah. Yeah. It's fun to visit. I don't want to live there. Yes.
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But it's fun to visit. I agree. Good job. Do you have a photo?
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More flowers. Very pretty. I like the colors. So pretty.
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Question about place?
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Where was that?
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What? Where? Where was that? I was in the Public Garden. Mm-hm. You can say "in."
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You can also say, "I was at the Public Garden." At? At. I was at the Public Garden.
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That was at the Public Garden. Um, when was that? When? When? When was that?
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I went to...four...I went to...what place? I went to... I went to the Public Garden
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Was it last week? Last month?
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Four months ago. Okay. I went to the Public Garden four months ago. Or you
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can say, I was there four months ago. I was there four months ago. Who was with you?
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Who did you go with? Flavia. Flavia. Say, "We went together." Yeah. We went together. You can say, "Before we went
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to the Public Garden... Before we went to the Public Garden, we were at school.
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At school? Correct. Good job. Okay. So, it was a busy day. You went to school. You had classes.
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After you had classes, you went to the Public Garden. Looks like you took
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some photos. And after that? After that, we went to the library. Mm. Went to the library.
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And when you were at the library, did you... what did you do? Did you sit down? Did you read books?
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Walking. We walked. Took pictures. So, if you want, you can say, "We just walked."
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But if you you want to give the whole long idea, you could use "when." No, when we were there,
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we just walked. When we were in the library, we took photos. We looked around
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when we were at the library.
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Remember how to use BEFORE and AFTER. Look at these examples.
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Before Flavia and Andrea visited the Public Garden, they went to school. Before
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their visit, they had morning classes.
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Before that, they went to school. After their classes ended, they went to the
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Public Garden. After their final class, they visited the Public Garden. After
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that, they went downtown. So we can use a whole idea (subject and verb), a short
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phrase, or single noun or pronoun. We use WHEN with a whole idea, a whole clause
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(subject + verb). When they went to the casino, Flavia won $10. And with any of
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these time clauses, we can change the order. Flavia won ten dollars when she
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went to the casino. For practice, think of a place you visited and talk about it.
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Where did you go? Wen was that? Who was with you? Was it crowded? Did you
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like it? Try using longer ideas with the time
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words WHEN, BEFORE, and AFTER.
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What did you do after you arrived?
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What did you do before you left?
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That's all for now. Please like and share this video.
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