What did you do Past Tense English Conversation
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alright so while we wait for people to
join I want to kind of recap a little
bit from last week’s episode or last
week’s lesson so last week our topic was
we talked about a giving advice no sorry
but that was two weeks ago we talked
about how to ask for help
yeah I thought to ask for help last week
so while we wait for people to join I
wanted to introduce how I actually asked
for help this was something I did over
the last week so this was an actual
thing that I - you did I ask people for
recommendations for okonomiyaki if you
guys don’t know Oakland owe me a key
it’s like it’s a Japanese food it’s
something that’s I like and recently
I’ve really been wanting that a lot so
this was an actual recommendation I
asked for so I said anyone have
recommended Oklahoma yaki places so I
actually asked for help this was an
actual sentence that I used in my life
so yeah so this is a wave I used last
week’s point in my world so maybe you
guys used it as well so yeah I hope that
everybody
I think everybody’s joining now that’s
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ok good so and also last week we had a
couple good questions from people I
wanted to try to get a chance to answer
because unfortunately I didn’t I didn’t
catch it live last week but last week we
had let’s see someone in Alberto I don’t
know if you’re watching now you asked do
I need to use the word could or can I
just say give me a second please
so we talked last week about using can
and could when you need to ask for help
you can say give me a second please
but using could sounds a lot more polite
it sounds like much less pushy so if you
want to sound a bit nicer then
definitely say could you give me a
second please that sounds much better
all right so that was one question and
then Jose asked last week what’s the
appropriate tense when asking for help
in the future so I think he means asking
someone for help
later on so not right now you can just
you can use the same tense like can you
help me with my homework and then
mention when you need the help so like
can you help me with my homework later
or can you help me with this project
after work something like that you can
use the same tense we talked about last
week so that’s another one and then joy
kam had a question can I use how would I
instead of how do I you can but how
would I sounds like you’re talking about
a future potential situation so for
example if I decided to move to New York
how would I find an apartment like it’s
something you haven’t quite decided yet
so thanks for your really good questions
that was awesome
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fantastic we’re about six minutes in so
I think we’re gonna start this week’s
topic so as you probably saw this week’s
topic is talking about your weekend so
our key question for today is what did
you do last weekend but I want to
practice past tense and I want to talk
about a few past tense related grammar
points and pronunciation points today
so to start a good just let’s just pitch
it out there what did you do last
weekend what did you do last weekend so
this is kind of our basic introductory
question for today what did you do last
weekend this one what did you do last
weekend alright so there’s a bit of lag
so start typing your questions or typing
your answers what did you do last
weekend so one thing let’s see last
weekend I went and saw a DJ I liked that
was fun that was good someone says I did
something terrible Alisha
oh no are you going to share mm-hmm what
what terrible thing did you do okay what
else what else some other things did
anybody else do anything anything this
weekend uh here’s someone Jacob right
says I slept a lot last weekend how
about you I slept quite a bit nice so
slept there’s a there’s a simple past
tense verb slept sleep is an irregular
verb slept is the correct past tense
form there great okay uh I did something
terrible forgive me Father for I have
sinned
okay that’s getting a bit we’re getting
into some different territory with that
someone Noonan says I stayed at home and
played games nice another person said I
went to the park with my husband great
okay
Sulaiman says spent time with my family
awesome on Facebook sunny says I played
cricket with friends nice ooh there’s a
good question on Facebook actually what
did you do last weekend to improve your
English nice one
very nice one someone said I go to class
at University every Saturday and Sunday
just rest make sure to use past tense
there yeah I went to class at University
on Saturday and Sunday if you want to
talk about your previous week on YouTube
I talked with my wife Maggie says I
dropped my sandwich this is morning
that’s awesome well I’m sorry for I’m
sorry for your loss but that’s a funny
sentence I like you chose this to
share that one someone says I was at the
beach another person says I wasted a lot
of time last weekend oh I slept at home
and watch soccer someone says I learned
English Mohammed on Facebook I learned
English or I studied English yeah great
I went to visit my family on YouTube oh
no someone someone says I crashed my
friend’s car trying to get a girl’s
number you should be careful okay a lot
of people went to the beach yeah good
okay another person on YouTube Wenceslao
said I went to my friend’s house and we
had a beer instead of take a beer had a
beer Wilson says I traveled to a city
next to the capital Salvador nice good
good you are awesome you have I had
eaten a lot of junk food use simple past
tense I ate a lot of junk food great
great on Facebook Don says I went
shopping at Central nice good nice ones
ok so yeah so what did I do last weekend
last weekend I said I went and saw a DJ
I liked I did a little bit of shopping I
cooked a Persian dish an Iranian dish
called Todd dig that was fun
another person says I was studying
Japanese nice
Angelica says I stayed at home great
Victoria says I watched a lot of series
on Netflix cool someone says I watched
your videos thank you that’s nice okay
great
Wow lots of people commenting excellent
okay so our question right now is what
did you do last weekend what did you do
last weekend um but as I mentioned today
I want to talk about a couple points
relating to past tense so this was a
question that came up last week someone
had a question about the ending
edie sounds in in past tense regular
verbs so when we make the simple past
tense with a regular verb it’s just verb
plus edy to make that so for example of
verb like walk becomes walked talk
becomes talked and so on but there are
three different pronunciation points
yeah ice ice our crew member she’s
helping with all of these she does all
of us stuff so this is the regular
formation for past tense for regular
verbs right verb plus IDI so what I said
walk becomes walked talk become stocked
visit becomes visited type becomes typed
look becomes looked and so on but
someone asked and it’s a really good
question
about the pronunciation of this part
right here this edy part because the
pronunciation of this changes depending
on the verb so for example I just said
walked you can hear it’s not walk it be
careful with this not walk it but walked
there’s a hard T sound there walked and
then in a verb like tasted it’s like an
ID sound taste it and then finally the
third sound is a soft D in the word like
breathed Bree
so the D sound is is a bit softer but
there are three essentially three simple
past tense pronunciations for verbs that
end in this e d pattern so there’s that
T walked visited and breathed but to
heed and a sound yeah so great Isis
making it here awesome so we have some
examples so you can see a little bit
more clearly
maybe the the sound you should be making
at the end of these words walked visited
read for a rule how to know when the
when the verb should be pronounced in
this way if I think it’s it’s beyond
this this live stream but if you google
around if you search around a little bit
on the internet I think you can find
some more information
but native speakers don’t practice a
specific rule for when to when to
pronounce a verb in a specific way it’s
just practice it’s just repetition so if
you pay attention to the way the native
speakers pronounce these words and just
try to repeat that form the habit I
think that’s a good way to do it
repeat the verb visited yeah visited so
it has an ID sort of pronunciation at
the end visited another example is
tasted they have that ID sound at the
end visited tasted someone asked to
pronounce the word the word stopped
stopped has that T sound this one here
deep stopped Rea on Facebook asks how
about blessed blessed it sounds when I
say it blessed it sounds like a little
bit of a tea sound not bless it I
suppose some people would say blessed
but I’d I get the feeling the most
common pronunciation is with this T
blessed
so when you talk about your weekend and
you say like I walked around the park or
something or I walked around my
neighborhood make sure to use this T
sound in your pronunciation walked
walked yeah
good alright so I hope that’s uh that’s
one thing I wanted to talk about today
but does anyone have any other verbs
they’re curious about mm-hmm wicked
actually wicked is not a verb
wicked is not a verb mm-hmm good
question them named yeah named is
another one named would be this this D
sound nice okay so these these are just
the the regular the regular conjugation
patterns and the three pronunciation
patterns for regular verbs in past tense
but the there is there’s a whole other
group of verbs irregular verbs they
conjugate differently in past tense so
unfortunately there’s no simple rule for
learning these it’s just it’s just
practice so like there’s a really good
example here at YouTube comments
somebody wrote the word reeded but read
is a great example of a past tense verb
that’s it’s an irregular verb so
actually the spelling of read does not
change in the past tense
it’s the pronunciation that changes in
the past tense so read becomes read in
the past tense but the spelling it does
not change alright so a couple of other
verbs that have irregular past tense
forms someone mentioned like eat make
sure to say I ate and past tense not
eaten or have eaten that’s a different
grammar point I ate
John Kelly procrastinate the past tense
is procrastinated
okay so a couple of other ones Oh shop
becomes shopped that’s a regular verb
the past tense is shopped for shop
mm-hmm okay
but somebody else mentioned earlier in
the broadcast the past tense for the
verb sleep is slept slept okay a couple
other ones
bye-bye is really strange bu why buy
becomes bought bought go becomes went
you can be careful of that one go
becomes went changed yep
change that’s correct watched is also
correct YouTube comments good very nice
put actually yeah Francois has a good
point put also does not change
there’s no putted it’s only put put does
not change from present tense to past
tense
learn learn does changed learn as a
regular verb learn becomes learned how
what about the past tense of draw it is
drew drew nice one drew mulroney on
Facebook says I can’t pronounce world
it’s very difficult for me yeah that’s I
think we talked about that in a talk
words video like a year or two ago world
is really difficult to pronounce so like
were it’s the it’s the are LD I think
world so lots of people say like wah wah
die think or something different but
work on that are and L sound like making
the change very quickly there between
are now were oh
break it down slowly at first until you
can speed it up
yeah it’s all good all right
megahertz what about cut yes cut does
not change
I cut myself in past tense you need to
make it very clear when you cut to
yourself
so if that is if you are in a situation
where the the verb does not change the
pronunciation of the verb does not
change just add a add a word out of
vocabulary word about the time period so
for example if if it’s the verb cut then
say I cut myself last night that can
help clear up any confusion about
whether it’s past tense or I don’t know
a present tense statement something like
that okay
yeah iocai Jason’s blow becomes blue
absolutely absolutely
okay MD aleem says how to use could and
would in the past tense that’s a really
good question and it’s perhaps a little
bit more advanced than I was planning on
discussing today but could and would are
used to talk about potential in the past
essential potential and possibility in
the past so for example I would have
gone to the party if I had had time we
can use it in the past tense to talk
about a past potential situation
same thing with could I could have gone
to the party but I decided not to it’s a
possibility statement so that’s a bit
like I said it’s a bit more advanced
than I was intending to talk about today
but to put it in a short in a short way
that’s how
great oh right yes I am talking a little
bit slowly today I’m trying to talk a
little bit slowly today because there
are many people with many different
levels of English watching alright so
those are a few grammar points I wanted
to mention today about the conjugation
of verbs into the past tense but I also
want to talk about some good questions
that you can use to ask people about
what they did either on the weekend or
further back in the past so we talked at
the beginning of the lesson about what
did you do last weekend the question
what did you do last weekend but let’s
talk about a few more kind of natural
expressions so for example did you get
up to anything interesting last weekend
did you get up to anything interesting
last weekend this sentence is a little
bit kind of it’s a bit more native level
of a question I think did you get up to
anything interesting try to speed up
that did you get up - did you get up to
anything interesting last weekend it
sounds much better than what did you do
last weekend mmm so it’s sort of a
little more friendly I think so that’s
one that we can use did you get up to
anything interesting last weekend I did
it was okay or a more general one a
general one that you can use with your
co-workers too is just have a good
weekend as a question so keep in mind so
here we have here here we have a
question mark but if you say this
expression when before you leave work
with your co-workers as like an
exclamation point it’s like you’re
wishing you’re you’re wishing them a
nice weekend have a good weekend and
then when you see them Monday you can
say have a good weekend with different
intonation a question intonation have a
good weekend
it’s asking them it’s inviting them to
share about what they did so this is a
good one you don’t you only need one
phrase have a good weekend
but too into nations and you can ask the
same person or you can communicate a lot
with the same person okay so yeah so
these are all some pretty good phrases
that you can use I think to ask people
about their weekends but I think as we
do in every broadcast there’s let’s say
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office when you’re studying at school
and so on so the one of the key kind of
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alright so back to our topic for today
let’s talk about a couple more
questions to to ask people about their
weekend there are some yes and no
questions so if you say to your coworker
for example at the end of the week like
have a good weekend or you ask them what
they’re going to do and they tell you
like I’m going to a party or I’m going
to watch a movie you can check back with
them on Monday or Tuesday when you see
your coworker again and ask them a
yes-or-no question like did you blah
blah blah
like did you go to that party or did you
see that movie so you can use these two
like this is a really nice one because
it shows you were paying attention to
them so if they gave you information and
you check in with them about that
information later it shows you remember
them which is nice right so did you go
to that party did you try that
restaurant did you check out that
restaurant yeah this one is good check
out is a nice one to remember check out
is more friendly a little bit more
casual you can use it for a lot of
activities any any like location so like
a restaurant a movie whatever do you
check out that restaurant did you check
out that movie did you check out that
festival so you can use that for a lot
of activities that’s good okay another
one we can talk about is how was your
blah blah blah
so we can use this for an event or a
time period in event or a time period so
how was your weekend or how was your
Saturday how was your Sunday something
like that we can use that or how was
your birthday party how was your I don’t
know
bachelor party something like that so
you can you can use that expression to
talk about events and to talk about time
periods
okay and then one more I think because
uh I mean obviously this live stream is
on its being is on YouTube and on
Facebook and like we all use social
media these days so if you see something
your friend posts on social media over
the weekend and you want to ask about
that you can use this expression what
was that blah blah blah you posted about
so what was that dinner you posted about
or post it on Facebook or on Twitter or
on Instagram about or what was that
event you posted about her what was that
project you posted about so you can use
this expression to specifically ask
questions about something your friend
shared on social media so this is nice
for yeah specifically people you’re
connected with online if you have a
question about that yeah so these are
great questions you can use oh right
good good good
Wow time goes so quickly on these live
streams good lord
okay yeah so someone says how was your
interview that’s a great question to ask
like a co-worker or a friend to check in
with them how was your interview is very
nice all right we have lots and lots of
people watching now I think great okay
all right how was your day is good um
steve has a question can it be what were
you so like what were you doing last
weekend you can use that it uses the
past progressive tense so a slightly
different grammar point from today’s
grammar point but you can use that you
can use that okay
good um let’s see uh yeah Tiago says
what was that new lesson you posted
about good what’s that new lesson you
posted I think there’s a new one a new
video up on the channel it’s
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it’s oh yeah words or expressions that
parents use with kids if you haven’t
seen that yet I think that’s the latest
video up on YouTube we should we made
that a long time ago it’s so crazy okay
Victoria says how was your meeting yes
very nice how was your meeting it’s a
great past tense sentence to use oh
right good
okay any other past tense sentences or
past tense questions you want to throw
out there we only have a little bit of
time left today unfortunately go so fast
oh right but while we wait while we wrap
up I want to mention our topic for next
week so next week actually today the
focus is past tense but for next week
next week will be August 30th eastern
time so Wednesday night at 10:00 p.m.
Eastern Time August 30th will be the
next broadcast and our topic will be
future tense so simple future tense
statements so how to talk about your
plans for the weekend so this week is
what you did in the past tense next week
will be what you’re going to do in the
weekend so please check us out next week
as well alright great so thanks
everybody for joining today again yeah
some some good questions are coming in
like how was your night how was your
class
great MD aleem says how do we use used
to in a sentence you use used to to talk
about an action you did in the past but
which is no longer the case no longer
true I used to play video games everyday
it’s no longer true all right great
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