El Pretérito o El Imperfecto Which one should I use?

Talk About the Past Using the Preterite & the Imperfect
ANTE TODO You have already learned the preterite tense.
Repaso: Ir a + infinitive in the imperfect
Regular verbs. The imperfect tense is quite easy to form and has very few irregular parts. There are only two sets of endings to learn and only three irregular.
The Imperfect Tense: Regular Verbs El Imperfecto.
The imperfect tense (El tiempo imperfecto)
The preterite forms of ir and ser are exactly the same. Carlos fue de vacaciones a las montañas. (ir) Mi equipo fue campeón.
THE IMPERFECT TENSE: REGULAR- IRREGULAR VERBS Avancemos 2 – Unidad 4.
Talk About the Past Using the Imperfect (el imperfecto)
The Imperfect- El imperfecto …another way of talking about the past.
El imperfecto Los verbos -ER/-IR.
El Imperfecto: The imperfect is used for past actions that are not seen as completed: The imperfect is used for actions that were repeated habitually.
The Imperfect… take notes somewhere The imperfect tense is used to refer to actions in the past that occurred repeatedly. I used to walk every day. Yo.
ACTION TAKEN AND COMPLETED DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED, WHAT OCCURRED DESCRIBES SPECIFIC ACTIONS THAT OCCURRED AT A POINT IN TIME AND WERE COMPLETED LOS USOS.
The imperfect tense The easiest way to understand the meaning of the imperfect tense in English is when the following three words are used: WAS - I was.
TOP SECRET An introduction to: The IMPERFECT tense.
El Imperfecto Hablar del Pasado Utilizando el Imperfecto Spanish4Teachers.org.
EL IMPERFECTO (The Imperfect) QUICK PRETERITE REVIEW! 1.(yo) jugar 2.(ella) servir 3.(ellos) hablar 4.(tú) andar 5.(nosotros) trabajar 6.(mamá) dar 1.
EL IMPERFECTO (The Imperfect) QUICK PRETERITE REVIEW! 1.(yo) jugar 2.(ella) servir 3.(ellos) hablar 4.(tú) andar 5.(nosotros) trabajar 6.(mamá) dar 1.
The Imperfect Tense: Regular Verbs Page 194 Realidades 2.
Uses of the imperfect.
Uses of the imperfect. Review uses of the imperfect Uses: Ongoing action in the past (Was ____ing) Repeated/Habitual actions in the past (Used to/Would.
1 Grammar of Chapter 4A El Imperfecto y el Preterito.
©CAS 2002 In English:I was playing / I used to play Like the Preterite Tense, the Imperfect is formed by adding endings onto the stem. AR Verbs dejar.
In Lecciones 6–9, you learned the preterite tense
El Pretérito y El Imperfecto Comparaciones. El Imperfecto You already know the imperfecto is used to: Say what was happening (not what happened) Describe.
Introducción al Imperfecto. The imperfect is one of two tenses used to talk about the past. What is the other one? ¿Cómo se forma el imperfecto? (The.
El Imperfecto Or….another past tense.
THE IMPERFECT TENSE.
The Imperfect Tense: -Ar Regular Verbs
The Imperfect Tense: Irregular Verbs Página 179 The Imperfect Tense: Irregular Verbs Página 179.
El Imperfecto The imperfect tense in Spanish is used to describe things that used to happen places,objects and people (in the past) give background description.
Would in the past I would go up north every summer. Yo iba al norte todos los veranos. imperfecto.
Sp. 2 ch One of the usages of the imperfect is to set the scene...when something specific happens or interrupts. He was watching the floor when.
El Imperfecto – In this presentation, we will look at another way of talking about the past.
El Imperfecto The Imperfect. Quick Review Spanish has two past tenses the preterite and the imperfect.
The Imperfect Formation. To form the imperfect of -ar verbs, drop the -ar and substitute the following endings: -ábamos-abais-aban -aba -abas -aba.
¿Pretérito o Imperfecto?
The Imperfect… take notes somewhere The imperfect tense is used to refer to actions in the past that occurred regularly or repeatedly. I used to walk every.
EL IMPERFECTO. 1. Used to (or would) Expresses the idea that something happened repeatedly in the past. todos los días cada día siempre frecuentemente.
El Imperfecto Los Verbos en -ER/-IR. El Imperfecto Usos del Imperfecto: –Express habitual or repeated actions/events in the past –Actions without definite.
¿Inglés? = was/were + verb(ing), used to + verb verb in the past
Repaso del pretérito y el imperfecto Endings and uses of the past tenses.
Remember present tense –AR verbs… Copyright © 2008 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved
Imperfecto versus Pretérito ¿Cómo diferenciar? How to differentiate?
NAME DATE The Unit Organizer BIGGER PICTURE LAST UNIT/Experience CURRENT UNIT NEXT UNIT/Experience Mi vida en la comunidad Vamos de paseo UNIT SELF-TEST.
Group 2B THIS IS With Hosts... Your ImperfectObj/double pronouns Ideal friend vocab Spanish to english vocab English to spanish.
Capítulo 4.1 ¿Conoces bien tu pasado?
Apuntes: el imperfecto. On the back of your flip book prepare spaces for: What imperfect is 2 sets of regular endings 3 irregular verbs A list of keywords.
¿Pretérito o Imperfecto?
Los tiempos pasados El imperfecto y El pretérito.
El Tiempo Imperfect The imperfect tense. Introduction The imperfect tense is the second past tense in Spanish. The first past tense we learned was the.
EL PRETÉRITO: -AR -> É,ASTE,Ó,AMOS,ARON -ER &-IR -> Í,ISTE,IÓ,IMOS,IERON MANY IRREGULARS AND STEM-CHANGES. EL IMPERFECTO: -AR -> ABA,ABAS,ABA,ÁBAMOS,ABAN.
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Maddie Keist Tercera Hora. Los Usos del Preterito y Imperfecto El Preterito To tell of something that happened once To tell of something that happened.
El Imperfecto Talking about habitual, recurring past actions.
The Imperfect The other past tense… ¿Recuerdas? We’ve already learned one way of talking about the past: the preterite. It’s used to describe single.
The Imperfect Tense Another past tense in Spanish.
E L P RETÉRITO VS. E L I MPERFECTO. For actions that were completed a specific number of times For actions that occurred during a specific period of time.
1 El Imperfecto de los verbos 2 Talking about the past There are ____ past tenses in Spanish. If the action occurred in the______ and the speaker can.
Spanish All Tense Endings
El imperfecto Used to talk about actions that happened repeatedly in the past Can sometimes mean in English “used to”
APUNTES: THE IMPERFECT TENSE
El Imperfecto Was, were, used to.
Imperfect of regular verbs.
Conjugating Regular Imperfect Verbs:
UIEI – El Imperfecto ¿Por qué se usa? ¿Cómo se usa? Ejemplos: -AR
EL IMPERFECTO.
Past Tense There are two past tenses in Spanish: the Imperfect