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started on today’s lesson so today our

topic is going to be explaining memories

how to explain your memories so I’m

going to explain some grammar points and

a few expressions that you can use to

talk about your memories so I thought

this would be a nice topic for this time

of year near the end of the year when we

want to maybe reflect on the things we

did earlier in the year so as we wait

for everybody I want to review a couple

points from last week last week our

topic was cooking verbs and so I had a

couple of questions some people asked a

couple questions but of course I always

try to include a review from some some

part of my life the way that I used the

points we talked about so I always try

to include like a tweet or something

from Instagram or whatever so this week

I

said like the first sentence I said I

launched a cooking project then

immediately got insanely busy and

haven’t made anything special in weeks

so I talked about cooking yeah but here

I said I’m thinking about baking up some

lasagna so we use the verb baking or too

big last week to refer to cooking things

in an oven so I used the word in my

everyday life here in this way in this

case I used baking up like we use up

after like a cooking or a creation

related verb to kind of give the ID

likes to give the idea of like finishing

something like to finish up something or

to cook up something to bake up

something so I used it in this way

but with this kind of casual up

afterwards so this is how I used it in

my everyday life so maybe you use some

of our words too but there were a couple

of good questions from last week’s

livestream I want to quickly address

last week someone named Dave Moby asked

can the verb blend replace mix in this

context the verb is blend blend ble nd

not necessarily blend means to mix and

to break down to make smaller like to

puree something or to make a mush out of

something so we can’t always replace

blend and puree they can’t they’re not

interchangeable so that’s what also tea

fellas asked what is the past tense of

saute the past tense of sautee is

sauteed we treat it like a regular

irregular past tense verb so sauteed is

the correct answer

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always - Ola hi patria Damon Mauricio

Mateus Ricardo hikmah Tula Daniel okay

yes I know the beginning was very fast

because I had a lot of points to review

but I’ll slow down now so let’s begin

today’s topic if you’re just joining

today we’re going to talk about how to

explain memories we’re going to talk

about how to explain your memory

so let’s begin um let’s see Kyle can I

steal the mouse for just a second

thank you okay we have to share the

mouse okay great thanks Kyle okay so um

we’re going to start today with maybe a

phrase that many of you already know the

expression when I was a child maybe many

of you know the expression when I was a

child so we use or a lot of people use

when I was a child to introduce kind of

a memory to introduce something from

their childhood but in American English

we don’t often use the word child to

talk about ourselves like child actually

sounds a little bit formal instead it’s

a little more common for us to use the

phrase when I was a kid when I was a kid

so kid is a little more casual kid

sounds like a small person who’s just

running around having fun child sounds a

little more formal so we tend to use

child a little uh a little less often

than kid we also use the expression when

I was little when I was little so

meaning physically when your body was

little like your your you were smaller

than you are now so when I was little or

when I was a kid

these are two expressions that we use to

introduce memories so I want to talk

about these today when you use these

expressions when I was a kid or when I

was little you probably need to use the

past tense after this so when I was a

kid plus past tense statement a past

tense action something that you did in

the past something when you were young

when you were little when you were a kid

so I want to use this as our first

question for today so please get ready

to type your comment so when you were a

kid think about when you were a kid when

you were young when you were little what

did you do when you were a kid what did

you do when you were a kid so for

example when I was a kid I played video

games everyday so past tense I play

video games everyday or when I was a kid

I fought with my brother a lot fought is

the past tense of a fight fight

so I’m when I was little I fought with

my brother a lot that’s sort of true or

when I was a kid I always wanted to eat

candy I always wanted to eat candy so

you can explain a repeated action with

this grammar too when I was a kid I went

to school every day or when I was a kid

I played some sport so what did you do

when you were a kid what did you do when

you were a kid no it’s our Facebook

scream okay

it’s Facebook okay I don’t see Facebook

good okay when I was a kid I used to

play football a lot nice Sherif okay on

YouTube great you’re the first one

excellent so when I was a kid I used to

play football a lot and we’re going to

talk about used to a little bit later in

today’s broadcast so when I was a kid I

used to play football very nice great a

lot of comments on YouTube so when I was

a kid I played the drums a lot great

Vinicius Carlos says when I was a kid I

played video games every day I played

video games every day Cesar says when I

was a kid I ate a lot of candies good

okay monie says when I was a kid I

played a lot good okay not taya on

Facebook she asks can we use when I was

a little kid yes absolutely when I was a

little kid so little means very very

young so kid means like a young person

but little kid means very very young but

yes you can use a little kid

absolutely okay when I was a kid I

usually ate ate too much candy so not

eat make sure to use past tense when I

was your past past tense I ate a lot of

candies okay when I was a kid I ate

sugar so please use past tense past

tense in this part past tense here okay

when I was a kid I hated to go to the

dentist good very nice very nice when I

was a kid I used to sing English songs

with my parents okay others on YouTube

when I was a kid I used to play cricket

a lot good

I used to play cricket a lot you don’t

need every time in that sentence when I

was a kid I used to that was too fast I

something he comes I used to come to the

USA that comment disappeared very

quickly when I was a kid I had a music I

I had a band and I was a singer very

nice very nice okay good so this is our

sort of review phrase I think maybe many

of you know this expression but I want

to point out that we often use this when

I was a kid instead of when I was a

child so please think about this when I

was a kid or when I was little these two

are pretty good okay

good ones still coming in when I was a

kid I was a good kid good okay very nice

when I was a kid I used to read

children’s books also remember the

plural the plural form is different kid

the plural form is kids child the plural

form is children please be careful of

these points so just a couple a couple

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next point I want to talk about today

okay so if you’re just joining today

today our topic is memories we’re

talking about explaining memories today

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stuff but I’m going to take the mouse

for a second and go to our next point

okay so next I want to introduce some

phrases that you can use to introduce

like a shared memory a memory that you

shared or a memory that you think

somebody else has experience with so I

want to talk about two expressions first

well I’ll just show them both to you at

the same time so these expressions are

do you remember when and do you remember

the time do you remember when and do you

remember the time so maybe somebody eye

aside some of you if you follow me on

Twitter I signed a little bit of review

homework there is a song it’s a song

called remember the time that I thought

would be a great way to practice today’s

grammar point

if you looked at that great great

because we’re going to talk about that a

lot today so do you remember when and do

you remember the time so you can use

these expressions for experiences that

you shared with another person in the

past so you can use this one do you

remember when also commonly to talk

about like world

or to talk about news items in the past

as well so please keep that in mind okay

um so you could say for example like do

you remember when we went camping last

year or do you remember the time we had

that crazy party for example um so these

are ways that we can use these

expressions but as I said in the in the

song that I was referencing so if you

want to check it out it’s Michael

Jackson’s remember the time it’s a

perfect perfect way to practice this

though so in that it’s a series of

questions and examples about memories so

it’s like do you remember a time plus an

example of the memory so I want to talk

about one of the expressions that’s used

there I’m gonna steal a mouth sorry for

just a second just a second sorry and

then we’ll go back to it sorry okay

thanks

so I want to talk about an expression

where we use do you remember Plus how

plus a past activity expression so for

example like do you remember how we used

to go drinking every weekend or do you

remember how you used to stay up so late

every night for example so in these

expressions how means the way of doing

something so we use these expressions to

mean like they’re kind of like an

introduction to the memory so we use

them sort of to in to introduce a shared

experience and then give more details

about it so I want to try to practice

this with our next question for today so

let’s use a pattern like this like a do

you remember when question to think back

to your childhood again and please

remember let’s use past tense to respond

to this question past tense so it’s the

next question is gonna be if we’re ready

I think okay so the question will be do

you remember when you were in elementary

school what did you like to do what did

you like to do so hopefully you can

remember elementary school like yeah I

remember elementary school well meaning

I can remember it easily I remember

details for example or you could say I

don’t really remember elementary school

that’s fine but hopefully you remember

um elementary school so you can say then

in response to this question what did

you like to do you can say I liked plus

a noun phrase some activity you liked to

do so for example yeah I remember

elementary school well I liked reading

books I liked reading books I especially

liked reading fantasy books I loved that

I loved that when I was in elementary

school so do you remember when you were

in elementary school what did you like

to do what did you like to do is our

second question for today so what did

you like to do in elementary school I

liked reading books I liked I liked

reading books late at night like in my

bed I would read books in my bed of it

like a flashlight and my parents would

get mad at me yeah I liked I liked

staying up late I still like staying up

late actually so what did you like to do

when you were in elementary school what

did you like to do okay some people are

saying do you remember when do you

remember when questions yes good good

good good so but when you were in

elementary school what did you like to

do what did you like to do I liked

reading books late at night hmm okay

I remember how me and my best friends

played played remember to use past tense

so I liked is in past tense so for

example my friends and I played football

and watched Tom and Jerry so past tense

played football watched Tom and Jerry

again I liked okay good I like to play

with my friends very nice money says I

liked to study I like to study good on

Facebook too I like to play

hide-and-seek hi Messiah okay I liked I

liked don’t forget this D

forget this poor dear I liked to play

volleyball good um I like to watch my

teacher explain lessons okay um I like

to play hide and seek is a game

we’ll use um I like to play hide and

seek play hide and seek

good good good good Tariq says I liked

to study I liked to study very nice I

remember elementary school I played so

many of you are using the progressive

tense so a lot of you are saying like

are for example some of you are saying I

like playing or whatever I’m seeing many

of you are using this pattern to respond

to this question why is this wrong this

is wrong because like is oh thanks Cal

like is present tense I’m asking you a

past tense question what did you like to

do past tense what did you like to do so

not like playing I like playing but I so

this I like playing no you can use I

liked playing so you can use the

progressive yes you can use the

progressive after your past tense so it

should not be sorry cut it should not be

it should not be present tense it should

be I liked playing sorry go it’s it’s

just I like to playing I liked playing

okay so please use past tense so still

many of you okay good I liked to play

football and watch and watch Jim

Carrey’s math good one good I like to

play badminton as well I like your

videos why thank you good I liked to

play cards good Yuto says I like to eat

sushi because I’m Japanese haha well I

also like to eat sushi and I am NOT

Japanese mmm I liked playing football I

just remember I liked eating glue you

actually liked eating glue I’ve heard of

kids who have it I’ve

ever I’ve never understood the interest

in eating glue there that’s very funny

thank you okay

that’s very funny Holly says I didn’t

like anything oh really

nothing you didn’t like anything in

elementary school sad face sad face for

sure for sure

I liked to sleep in the classroom good

okay

everyone is now using the past tense

good good good excellent excellent okay

Cesar says I liked eating my sandwich at

lunch time me too that is still the

highlight of my day is eating okay oh

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okay but if you’re just joining live we

are talking today about how to explain

your memories your memories so we’ve

talked about some expressions to

introduce your memories but I want to

talk about two grammar points for

explaining your memories so I mentioned

that there’s a really perfect song for

talking about this a song called

remember the time and I want to you

borrow two lyrics from that song to

illustrate to explain our next grammar

point

okay these these these two lines are

first do you remember so we just studied

this one yeah do you remember how we

used to talk so here I want to focus on

used to then the next line is an example

example we’d stay on the phone from

night till dawn so night meaning

nighttime and dawn until the Sun comes

up this weed means we would we would so

these are the two points I want to focus

on for the last part of this lesson when

to use use two and would to talk about

your habit so we have two points here

used to which

we see in this sentence this lyric and

would we would hear these are both used

to talk about past habits past habits

but what’s the difference kind of

difficult right how do we know if we

should use use to or would so a key

difference we can only use would we can

only use sorry we can only use would if

we already understand it’s a past tense

situation so I we need to know that this

situation or the conversation is about

something in the past about something

yeah can we see that one again cough

sorry the yes that one please

so here we know it’s a past tense

situation because there’s this question

do you remember how we used to talk this

is like the introduction we’re talking

about a past tense situation so to give

the example we’d we would this we’d

remember is we would stay on the phone

so we can use would in this case because

we understand it’s a past tense

situation to begin with so when you want

to use would you need to make sure that

you and your listener or this everybody

in the situation understands it’s a past

tense situation or must understand that

it’s a past tense situation so everybody

must know okay I have limited space on

the board so to use would I’ll put here

you must know it’s a past tense

situation you must know it’s a past

tense situation however used to we can

use any time so we don’t have to we

don’t have to know that it’s a past

tense situation like I can be I can

begin a conversation with used to like I

used to play video games everyday that’s

fine I can begin my conversation with

used to I cannot begin with I would play

video games ever

that’s not correct because I haven’t

introduced a past tense situation here

so please introduce a past tense

situation here before you use wood so I

used to play video games everyday great

conversation starter or part of a

conversation but we cannot say I would

play video games every day so please

keep these two points in mind when

talking about wood and you can see here

after you use wood we would stay so the

verb follows wood we’d stay on the phone

we’d play video games every day we’d go

to a restaurant every month so please

use the verb after stay so we would I

would you would to talk about your past

habits so both used to and wood are used

to talk about past habits so here must

know it’s a past tense situation anytime

is used to so let’s practice this let’s

practice this with our last question

today we’re almost out of time

yeah last question today what is

something you used to do please share an

extra detail with the word wood what’s

something you used to do one and please

share an extra detail with wood like

we’ve just talked about this year so for

example oops

I’ve lost my example sentences okay so

for example I could say I used to I used

to play golf every spring I’d I would

every spring I’d practice with my team

mates after school so I used to to

introduce I used to play golf verb

phrase I’d practice with my teammates

after school okay or another one I used

to have dinner with my family a lot we’d

we’d go out and celebrate when my

brother and I got good grades so what’s

something you used to do what’s

something you used to

do what’s something I used to do once so

when I was a little kid I used to go to

school every day okay so I used to go to

school every day then let’s try to use

would let’s try to use would to give a

detail share a detail about this

activity so two points here two points

what did you do what something you used

to do so you don’t do it now plus a

detail plus a detail okay so I used to

bla bla bla now used to in my case I

used to play golf or I used to have a

dinner with my family a lot I used to

bla bla bla I used to I used to eat

onion but nowadays I eat onion good I

used to eat onion is fine but one of the

key points of used to is this action

this action here this verb phrase you

don’t do this action now you don’t do

this action now so I used to uh Oh

denílson fantastic okay I used to read

comic books I’d read a lot of different

kinds of comics good

perfect perfect so that was really nice

two points there fantastic Thanks okay I

used to play soccer every day I’d eat

after that perfect very nice okay I used

to watch cartoons with my cousin we’d

play while watching perfect nice one

nice one I used to play piano

so here the just the regular verb I used

to play piano

I’d play for hours nice one Nelson thank

you I used to swim I’d go to the

swimming pool every weekend oh I’d have

to go to the swimming pool every weekend

nice more complex grammar okay

I used to go to church every weekend

good so like I’d Papa Blas add some

detail with wood to practice these two

points I used to work to make money I

thought okay okay do you no longer work

you don’t work anymore

so remember used to it sounds like you

know long

do this action no longer do this action

okay I used to play a lot

I’d play video games maybe again and

again for example or I used to play

soccer I’d kick the ball into the

neighbor’s house good okay very very

nice very nice so please keep these two

points in mind when talking about your

memories your past habits okay they’re

used a bit differently all right but we

are out of time unfortunately every

everyday we’re out of time unfortunately

today so I need to wrap it up thanks for

your nice example sentences though

sounds really good alright but we have

to finish unfortunately unfortunately so

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