Apostrophe (´) quotation marks (“ “)

Fat patient: Doctor, I want to lose weight fast.

Paciente gordo: Doctor, quiero perder peso rápidamente.

Doctor: It is very easy, just keep shaking your head, left and right.
Doctor: Es muy fácil, sólo mueve la cabeza de izquierda a derecha.

Fat patient: All the time?

Paciente gordo: ¿Todo el tiempo?

Doctor: No, only when someone offers you food.

Doctor: No, sólo cuando alguien te ofrezca comida.

Little Johnny asked his father, "Dad, can you write in the dark?"
Jaimito le preguntó a su padre, "Papa, sabes escribir a oscuras?"

His father said, "I think so. What do you want me to write?"
El padre le dijp "Eso creo. ¿Qué quieres que escriba?

Little Johnny replied, "Oh, just sign this report card for me..."
Jaimito le contestó, "oh, sólo fírmame las notas de clase"

Simple past (refers to an action that began and finished in the past)

- Remember, use DID as an auxiliar in negative and interrogative

- DID is used with regular or irregular verbs.

Example with Regular verb irregular verb

He CLOSED the door They ate pizza (ellos comieron pizza)

(-) He DID NOT close the door They didn´t eat pizza

(?) DID he close the door? DID they eat pizza?

Yes, he close the door Yes, they did

No he didn´t No, they didn´t

Resolve this exercises

- Maria vio television ayer

- Tu entendiste la leccion facilmente (facil es un adjetivo, fácilmente es averbio)
The past progressive talks about something that was happening
before, but for a period of time. It uses was or were + verb-ing like was
eating or were playing. It gives a background for something that was happening while a different
event happened.

Example: While I was eating, the telephone rang.

So, during the time I was eating (let's say from 6:30-7:00 p.m.) somebody called my house
(let's say they called at 6:49p.m.) One thing happened (simple past) during the period of time
another thing was happening (past progressive.)

Here is another example: They saw an old man as they were walking down the street.