Simple past tense describes completed actions that happened in the past, typically indicated by specific verb forms (e.g., 'went' for 'go', 'told' for 'tell', 'answered' for 'answer'). To identify simple past tense, look for verbs that have changed form to indicate past time, and use the process of elimination: if a sentence contains 'was/were' + verb-ing (past continuous) or 'am/is/are' + verb-ing (present continuous), it is not simple past. For example, 'The kids went to the park' is simple past because 'went' is the past tense of 'go', while 'She was going to the store' is past continuous because 'was going' indicates an ongoing action in the past.
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Added:And then we had said in class, in the previous class, Wait, I'll take a picture of this.
Ready.
In the previous class, look at the quiz we did, which I did on the other channel, on the other platform.
Okay.
Okay. I'll be there in 5 minutes. I'll be there in 5 minutes. I arrive 5 minutes before the class starts. I'm going to stay here with you for a while. Look, the question I asked was... The question I asked was... Uh, the quiz was: Pick the sentence in simple past.
And we had three sentences. We'll put them here.
We had Ah, she was going To the store.
We had that one, uh, number two, they had, sorry.
Let's erase a little bit here. I do n't know if you can see the whole thing, the size, I think you can. Okay, that's great.
That's good enough. So, choose the sentence that is in the simple past tense. This is the key here, it says simple past.
Two.
I'm going to book a flight.
Okay?
I am going to register, book, and buy a flight.
Three, ah, sorry, ah, three yes.
And that bad thing here, which was that I gave a semi-translation, okay? I'm not going to do that again and we put three, ah, Three, the kids.
The kids went to the park.
And the question is, the quiz asked us, "Pick the sentence in simple past."
Choose the sentence in the simple past tense.
There is something that needs to be explained.
Oh, sorry. And out of twenty-something students, 58% chose this one.
And then I'm going to put it here. 50 58% which means that 58% chose this one, and these were divided, many were closer to this one, this one was like 36% 36% and what are we left with there? Uh uh, what? I got lost.
Damn.
Ah, we have 14 left.
Less.
Six.
Okay.
Because we have these eight, we put them here and it would be 40 44 6% 6% here. Okay. Perfect.
We remember a little bit, we were back in third grade. So, 36 % of the students picked this one. I'm going to put 36% of the students here.
Look what I'm putting.
Pick, I put this verb, this same verb, pick from choose. I put it in the past tense because I say they chose.
This prayer, they chose this prayer.
And those 36% say that this sentence is in the simple past tense because the sentence is in the simple past tense.
Therefore, 36% say that the sentence that is in the simple past tense is this one.
Okay?
Then 6% said it was this one and we're going to discriminate against it and say that because it's a little bit different, then this one isn't it.
But that wouldn't be an excuse, okay?
But this sentence is in the present tense, look, I am.
So it doesn't comply with this because it says simple past.
But here it is in the present tense. Therefore, we are going to discard this sentence once and for all and say that this is not it.
This sentence is not in the simple present tense, sorry, it's in the simple past tense because at the beginning it already says and that means I am, I am. I'm going to book a flight.
So this sentence is not in the simple past tense. Let's see if we can make this clear here.
So, how are you?
They are videos, yes. I make videos. Guys, good evening to those who are watching me here on TikTok and on YouTube.
Uh, I'm about to start a class with my student, but I'm here sharing with you all for a little while.
So, look, we're left with these two.
Here we can argue, here this word was is in the past tense, we can argue, hey, past tense.
But it so happens that here in the 58% who chose this one they say it is past tense because the word went is the past tense of the verb to go, therefore, the kids went, the kids went, the children went to the park.
Hey, the kids went to the park.
The children went to the park.
Whereas here it says, she was, ella estaba, dice uno, es el pasado del verb ser o estar. She was going to the store. So, this whole structure here is in the past continuous because this word is going, it is continuous, therefore, it is not simple past, it is past, but continuous.
She was going to the store. She was going to the store.
Hello, teacher.
Hey, Brian.
Good evening.
Good evening, man. How are you?
I'm fine.
Okay.
And you?
I'm doing great.
I'm doing great, thank you.
So, I had this question on TikTok.
Pick the sentence in simple past. Can you read it?
Think.
Pick. The sentence in Pick the sentence in simple past. Great, great.
What does that mean? What does this mean? What does this mean?
Eh, what is the meaning of that pick?
All right. What a great question. What's the meaning of that? You said, "What's the meaning of that pick?" And then he threw it here like this, look. If you're going to write it, you have to write it like this.
What's the meaning of that?
Pick.
So that if you write it, you have to write it like this, so that the person who reads it already separates everything in their mind and organizes it and knows that you are asking, what is the meaning of that? Pick.
Yes, right.
So, remember, this is the structure; if you want, copy it so you can see the quotation marks, question marks, and how it's well organized.
Pick can mean to choose, to lift, or to collect.
Okay, pick, what does that mean?
To pick up or lift. Look, pick, pick one. I come and offer you, I have markers and I offer you one and I say, hey.
Pick one.
Take one. It's like you pick one, right? Ah, if it's a drink, I can tell you to take.
Ah.
Take. Take one.
Take one.
No.
Pick one.
The red. The red one.
Red.
Now, let's do it.
Ah, pick one.
Choose one.
Tell me in English. Pick one. Answer in English.
Pick one.
The black one.
The red one.
The red one. The red one.
Not red one, not red.
The red one.
The red one. Because I said pick one.
Pick one.
The black one. The black one.
But look, pick one, the black. Ah, ah.
No, that's not English.
Okay. No, that's not English. Pick one.
The red color. No, the red one.
The red one, the red one.
No.
Pick one. Give me the red one.
Pick one.
Hey. Give it to me.
Eh, eh, Eh, take.
Give me.
Give.
Yes, yes.
Give me the red one.
Yes.
Give me, give me.
Give me.
So, let's do it again. Let's do it again.
Take one, man.
Pick one.
Give me the blue one.
Give me the blue one.
Give me the blue one.
Oh.
Uh, I'll take it, I'll take it, I'll take it, I'll take the red one.
Pick one. "I'll take the red one," you say.
I.
I take.
Yes.
I take the red one.
The, no red.
Red.
Red. Aha, don't strain too much. The red one.
The red one.
Yeah, don't put too much force on that net, on the T. Don't put any force on it.
Okay, red one.
Yes, network, but it sounds like it's a network, not a net.
Red.
Red. Look, the red one. Gentle.
The red one.
The red one. Okay. So, let's do it again.
Pick one.
I take the red one.
I take the red one.
Yes. It can never sound like "red" here, because if it sounds like "red," you're saying, " man, red."
Network. It ca n't be a network.
It's got to be red.
The red one.
Not red.
Not here.
And you can't network because you can also pronounce this, look.
Red. Can you see? No, no, no, that can't be because you're saying a strange word and they're going to say they're lost.
Because you're throwing it here.
And not here, you see? And don't put any force here, don't put any force here.
Not hard, no, don't use so much force.
The only thing you can't do is here, this sounds here in the, here.
No.
Like, like this, look.
Pronounce this, read it.
Look. That may be the case.
Okay, and it can't be that strong, look. It ca n't be that strong.
I read books.
I read books.
I read books, I read books.
Yes, it doesn't have to be I read books, no, I read books. Now, listen.
I read books every day, let's say like this, I read books everyday.
Okay? Already.
Or wait.
Wait.
I read a book per month, a month. I read a book a month.
Can you sound this one?
I read a book a month.
Okay.
Okay, I read a book a month.
I read a book a month.
Ah, now look at this.
This has to make sense. I'm putting it this way, although this word here and this has to make sense. It says last month here. Last month indicates that it is the past. Last month. Therefore, this sentence is in the past tense; this verb never changes, it remains the same. Here the read and here it has to be pronounced like the color red.
That's how it has to be pronounced. Say it.
Read, read.
No, no, no, no, no.
Read.
Read.
Read.
Read, uh-huh, read.
read a book Ah, sound it, the whole sentence.
I read a book last month.
Okay, good. And don't put so much pressure on the T here. Last month.
Because everyone knows, everyone knows, last month, even if you pronounce it wrong, everyone knows you're saying last month.
Okay.
Everybody knows, even if you pronounce this wrong, everybody knows that you're saying last month. Last month, last month, last month. There are people who will say " last month" and it doesn't sound like Latin. That doesn't matter. This partnership is what matters.
Yes, you see? There is nothing else that can make this happen. Last month.
So, you have the freedom not to pronounce that T so strongly. Last month.
Everyone knows what you said last month, even if you didn't mispronounce it. Okay, fine?
So, what new things did we learn here? What's important, look, the verb read, here is read and here is red.
Network. Uh-huh.
I read a book last month.
I read a book last month.
Last month.
I read a book a month.
I read one book a month.
Per month.
Okay? Do you want to copy that?
Red book.
I read a book last month.
I read a book last month.
Now, how would you say, here's a question for you.
I have a question here. How would you say? I 'm reading a book.
In Spanish you always say, I'm reading a book. So, how would you say that in English?
Uh, I'm reading a book.
I'm... Yes? So?
I'm reading a book.
I'm reading, reading, very good.
A book, eh, fantastic, great.
Very well, I'm reading a book.
I'm reading a book.
I'm reading a book, right? I am reading a book about Mexico or from Mexico.
Eh How do you say in English about?
About.
About, uh, about me.
Okay, go ahead.
Go ahead.
I'm I'm reading I'm reading a book about Mexico.
Great.
great, great, great.
So, I'm reading a book about let's put it here.
About Mexico. Hey, long live Mexico!
Greetings to Mexico. Shout out to Mexico.
Shout out to Mexico.
Mhm. Shout out to Mexico. So, I'm reading a book about Mexico. I am reading a book about México. I am reading a book about Mexico, by Mexico, regarding Mexico.
Okay.
All right, let me get rid of this. And I'm going to return here to the central point of our conversation.
I'm posting this poll.
Pick the sentence ah in the simple in the simple past. That was the poll and I put it like this, look, watch.
I had number one ah I am ah work I am working. I'm working now.
I'm working now. Uh, I had another one.
Ah She was Are you sure that is past? Okay, let's see.
Let's see, shall we? I'm asking you, are you sure? Are you sure?
Ah, she she was she was Hold on. Are you sure?
What's your answer? You're sure? What's your answer?
Yes.
And what is it? You don't answer yes, that's wrong.
Okay, yes, I'm sure, okay. Yes.
I'm sure. It's not that it's wrong, but it sounds really harsh to just say "yes, okay?"
Yes, I'm sure, everything. Yes, I'm sure.
So, yes, I'm sure.
So, she was correct.
Past. You're right. Past. And this, uh-huh, keeps moving his head. And this.
So, it's not past, it's past.
Because this one is what?
Present continuous.
Okay, so this one is not.
Look, the process of elimination gave you the answer. What remains has to be.
They.
Told. Past. This one is definitely in the past tense, it's all alone, there's nothing else. If there is something more, it is not in the past.
Okay, pronounce this.
They. Exactly, no day, they.
They told me.
They told me. To shut up.
Shut up.
Shut up.
Shut up.
Shut up.
Oh, told. Good, good.
Present.
Tell.
Tell me.
No, tell me.
Tell me, tell me. Tell me your name, tell me your name.
They.
Okay, so they, they told me.
Hey.
Not daughter of saying they, because we don't want to translate them.
Told me.
Told me, aha, they told me, of course they told me. They told me.
Hey.
What did they tell me? Be quiet. They told me to shut up, they didn't tell me to be quiet, because for it to be "be quiet" it would be like this, look.
They told me, [snort] comma, look, the important thing is that this, they told me, I open quotation marks, shut up, okay?
I close the quotation marks and that's it, now I am saying they told me to shut up. Be quiet.
They told me to shut up.
They told me, now eat, they told me shut up.
They told me to shut up, while here, they told me to shut up.
Shut up. They told me to shut up.
Or they told me to keep quiet.
Yeah? Okay, write it down.
So, this sentence is in simple past, they told me, they told me.
That I should shut up.
They told me, but here, look, they told me, here it is already fulfilled, they told me, they told me, past, simple past.
Esta, she was working, I'm working, simple present continuous and past continuous.
Very simple.
So, I'm going to give you another example, okay?
Am, so, take the sentence in simple past.
Hold on.
Take the sentence in simple past. It's past and she answered Okay.
the phone.
Okay, hold on.
Pronounce it.
Ans.
Answer.
Ah, okay, hold on.
Wait.
Answered.
Answered.
Okay, can you read the sentence again?
She answered the phone.
Good.
She answered the phone.
Look what it says. So what is that sentence translating?
Or how would you say it in Spanish? It doesn't matter, but the idea, right? About what she did.
No.
Well, he didn't answer the phone. in Spanish, in Spanish, that is, the action in Spanish, how is it said.
What about your sister?
No.
He answered the phone.
Yes, he answered the phone, he picked up the phone. Do you see? He answered, he replied, it doesn't matter.
She answered the phone.
She answered the phone.
Exactly, he answered the phone.
So, and number three, can you explain number three? Can you explain number three?
She was watching TV.
What can you tell me about that?
But do you see the idea behind what I'm asking you here?
Yes.
Launch.
Uh, it is, uh, It can be done, I continue.
Okay, continuous, good. And this?
Present continuous.
Present, very good. Hey, present continuous.
Present continuous.
Aha, that's the difference, okay?
Why is it important to know? Beyond identifying it, let me wipe this off.
Out.
Why is it important to know?
Why do you need to know that?
Because then, look, it happens that in Spanish, uh, someone says to you, "What did you do over the weekend?"
Okay?
Here.
What did you do?
What do you do on the weekend?
Right?
Yes.
So, what do you do on the weekend? Look at the components it has.
This, because I'm asking in the past tense, so, what did you do?
Did you do that on the weekend? What did you do over the weekend?
Look at what we say here in America, in Spanish.
Many people say, "We answer like this."
I was, I was, I was shopping, on Saturday I was shopping, uh, then I was, I was shopping at the mall, uh, I was visiting my parents.
On Sunday I was visiting my parents and on Monday I was, well, look, like I said, I was. You ca n't say that in English.
I was doing something, because I was doing something is in the past tense.
Continuous.
Continuous. And you have to answer with the simple past tense that they asked you about.
What did you do? They didn't ask you what you were doing. That's why we sometimes make mistakes and say, " I was watching TV." No. I watched TV.
TV.
But you don't say, I was watching TV. You don't answer like that, because that's used for something else.
So, let me show you here first.
So, what did you do yesterday? Right?
Can you read it for me, please?
What did you do on the weekend?
Okay, what did you do on the weekend?
Very good. What did you do yesterday? How do you say that?
What did you do yesterday?
Excuse me. What did you do?
Do.
On yesterday.
One word.
One.
One word. Not two words.
On.
What did you do yesterday?
Yesterday. Great.
Okay.
Okay. So, it's not on yesterday, but on the weekend or the weekend. What did you What did you do on the weekend? Yes.
Clear.
On the weekend.
On the month, on the years.
Okay, exactly.
Ah.
On the month, but with the number. On September 1st.
On September, no.
In September.
Oh, yeah.
On September 10th.
Dated.
Exactly. Very good.
Nice.
So, uh what did you do yesterday?
Can you read that again, please?
What did you do yesterday?
So, what did your sister do yesterday?
What did you do? Okay, hold on, what?
Aha, did What did you, what did your sister? What did your sister, your sister, hey.
What did your sister do yesterday? Do.
But sometimes the doing gets done.
This one puts it in the past tense, this one here puts it in the past tense, but this isn't the doing, it just puts it in the past tense.
Exactly, so what did your sister do?
Yesterday, yesterday, great.
Hey, nice.
What did your sister do yesterday?
How would you answer this question?
What did your sister do yesterday?
My sister, did you?
Okay, my sister, my sister, did you? Uh-huh. Did you do?
Anything, anything, okay, anything.
Okay, now what?
What?
Here's the answer. Hold on. Don't worry.
My sister.
My sister.
My sister. I'm going to say my sister played.
My sister played.
Yesterday. I'm going to say my sister played. I don't complicate things.
First of all, I do the easiest thing to avoid putting them in a negative light, as you want to say, I do all the easy ones in a positive light. Look, and I'll learn this first.
What did your sister do yesterday? Oh, my sister played.
Played the tennis.
My sister played the piano yesterday.
Played the piano. Played the piano.
What am I saying? What about my sister? He played the piano. He touched it. So, you have to translate it like this, he played the piano. So, my sister played the piano yesterday. My sister played the football yesterday. I do the easy thing.
And when I learn all that, I can say, oh, my sister. What did your sister do yesterday? My sister cleaned her room yesterday.
Cleaned.
Cleaned.
Her room yesterday.
Right?
And the fourth one?
Her room. Yes, the fourth one, but whose?
Her room.
Yes, although in English they always say "her room", not "the room".
The room.
No. My sister cleaned the room yesterday. Now I don't know what room they're talking about, I just don't know.
And it is said like my sister cleaned the house yesterday.
Oh, that's right.
But then what does it mean? I 'm probably saying I'm the same there at home too.
Clear.
But if I'm going to say that he cleaned the house, but which house? I make sure to say that it's her house. So.
Your house.
Your house.
My sister cleaned.
Ah, cleaned my the cleaned the cleaned.
Her.
Ah, her your Her.
House.
Her house.
Her house. It can't be your house because your means your, but whose? From you?
No, from her.
Hey my sister my sister cleaned my house to tell me.
Oh, yes, my house. She cleaned my house.
She cleaned my house.
My house.
But if I want to say my sister, my sister, eh, Lim, cleaned your house.
She cleaned.
Look how easy it is.
Whose house is it? Your house.
Your house.
So, my sister cleaned your house.
Your house.
See how easy it is.
Your house, because it is your house.
Your home.
Your home.
So, my sister cleaned, my sister cleaned, your house, my sister cleaned your house. My sister cleaned your house.
My sister cleaned your house, it doesn't matter.
My sister cleaned your house.
Easy.
Now, I mean, my sister has her house, she cleaned it yesterday, and I mean, my sister cleaned her house yesterday.
My sister cleaned her house. Already.
Her house yesterday.
Yesterday.
That's it. That's all there is to it. My sister cleaned her house yesterday.
Yesterday.
Her house. And we don't say "the house of she" or all that nonsense, no, "her house". Easy.
My sister cleaned their house.
My sister cleaned My sister cleaned your No.
No. It's not your, you're right, it's not your, you're right. Their house.
Great. Fantastic. So, my sister cleaned cleaned. Very good. Their house.
Yesterday.
Great.
Their house.
Easy. Very simple. Very, very, very simple. Their house, it's very simple.
Their house, they don't complicate things by lengthening it, they just say, their house, their house.
Or their house too, right? Their house.
Okay, write it down. Let's take note.
My sister cleaned the house.
And so, this sentence is also in the simple past tense, right, because we say my sister cleaned their house yesterday, simple past tense.
Okay, guys, we've reached the end of the class. Thanks to the people who are here. We'll see each other again tomorrow at this same time, uh, my time would be 10 pm, okay?
Thanks to everyone who stayed, shared the live stream, liked it, and we'll see you tomorrow.
See you guys.
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