How often do you visit your mother?

Spent the afternoon together

PAST TENSES

PAST SIMPLE: to describe the main events in a story – to

talk about something that happened in the past (I NEED
TO SAY WHEN)

Last summer / last winter / 5 years ago / in 1990 / when I

saw him

PAST CONTINUOUS: to talk about something that was in

progress in the past

I was watching TV and my sister was cooking

PAST PERFECT
Had + past participle

He had killed 20 people before.

PAST

He had killed 20 people when he killed Kennedy.

She was standing on the train when she noticed…

INTERRUPTED ACTIONS (interrupts past simple – interrupted past

continuous)

I was having a shower when my dad called me out.

Didn’t finish the report

He had asked her to do

Ask somebody to do something

He asked her to finish the report tomorrow.

He asked about the report.

He asked if she had finished the report.

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Babies – toddlers (1 to 2 years old)

How do you think toddlers acquire the language?

By listening their parents

Mimicking /copying

Make sounds

They point with their fingers

Nieces / nephews
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