How to talk about your English achievements for the year
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achievements for things that are not
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we’re gonna talk about three kind of uh
ways to talk about your achievements
with simple past tense and uh to talk
about complete actions we’re gonna use
uh a pattern to talk about not complete
actions and we’re gonna talk a little
bit
we’re gonna talk a little bit about
changes too how do we describe the
changes that we experience okay so let’s
get to part one of today’s lesson we’re
going to begin by talking about complete
achievements things that are finished
things that are done okay
so let’s take a look and as uh as i go
through this send your achievement in
the chat and i’ll try to check this live
okay so let’s get started with our uh
complete achievements things that are
finished okay so to express a complete
achievement just use simple past tense
use simple past tense to do this okay so
for example in all of these examples the
simple past tense verb is in red okay so
send your simple past tense achievement
in the chat and i will try to check it
live okay so let’s get started first one
is i
started a business i started a business
okay so started is my simple past tense
firm i started a business
or
we bought
a house we bought a house bot is the
past tense of buy so we bought a house
it’s our simple past tense achievement
next is
i ran a marathon for the first time
i ran a marathon for the first time so
this is a good expression to use
for the first time for the first time so
if you want to express that it was the
first time in your life to do something
use this for the first time after the
simple past tense statement so i
something something for the first time
okay
i did something for the first time okay
or i learned
how to cook
i learned how to cook so i learned how
to cook you can use this i learned how
to infinitive verb you can use this
pattern i learned how to something for a
skill i learned how to something okay i
learned how to cook or i learned how to
ski
whatever whatever your skill or your
sport is i learned how to something okay
all right then
i passed a professional exam
i passed
a professional exam so make sure this
passed is not p-a-s-t not correct
p-a-s-s-e-d to pass an exam to pass an
exam passed a professional exam or i
passed maybe an exam at school too i
passed a test at school okay
and one more i made a lot of new friends
i made a lot of new friends so here past
tense make i made a lot of new friends
okay
and finally i earned more money i earned
more money many people are excited about
this one i earned more money so that
means my salary increased or my job and
my job i got more money okay
cool so you can send your examples in
the chat i prepared my first dinner in
2007 says kamala okay i made my lunch
for the first time you made lunch for
the first time ever like cooked it okay
okay
uh you can send other goals hi facebook
facebook made it hi facebook uh it looks
like that’s okay now i’m looking for
your examples everyone is saying hello
colo says i passed my driver’s license
last week i passed my driver’s license
exam last week or i passed my driver’s
license test last week so for a test use
this one i passed a
blah blah blah exam yeah i passed my
driver’s license exam so this is a
general i made a general example
sentence here i passed a professional
exam so i passed my driver’s license
exam or i passed my
law certification exam whatever it is
i passed this
eric says i discovered a dinosaur in my
backyard last month thanks eric
okay
all right
uh
other examples uh i don’t see other
examples yeah hi everybody on facebook
that’s joining us welcome facebook hi
uh okay good so this uh this grammar
point simple past tense is a great way
to express just your simple complete
act simple and complete achievements so
remember we use simple past tense for
actions that started and ended in the
past so for the things this year that
are completely done you achieve them
they’re finished you can use simple past
tense to express those okay
cool so this is part one for today’s
lesson about how to talk about your
achievements so if you are just joining
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lesson is about how to talk about your
achievements for the year we’re talking
about complete
actions or complete activities things
that are not complete
so maybe you’re still working on those
things and then we’re going to talk
about uh increases and decreases and
changes that happened this year okay
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uh incomplete action so how do you talk
about something you started to do but
you didn’t quite finish it let’s
talk about some patterns for this okay
so
i have i made two basic patterns for for
this section so we have this this one
which is just like the first one
i simple past tense verb and then the
key difference here is but i did this
but
so it’s not finished yet or there was a
problem so something that’s incomplete
we can express this
very simply with this pattern i simple
past tense verb
but
or
you can use this pattern so i wanted to
include this pattern
specifically for something you started
but it’s not done yet so you’re still
doing that thing
so
the pattern is i started
plus the ing form of a verb so i started
walking i started listening i started
cooking whatever
but
something something something so you’re
not finished yet okay this is the idea
all right so let’s take a look at some
examples you can send yours in the chat
i’ll try to check live let’s take a look
okay so first one i created
a website
but
it’s not 100
finished
i created a website but it’s not 100
finished so we have our achievement in
simple past tense here i created a
website okay so that’s finished
but
it’s not 100 finished
right so that means maybe we can visit
the website we can go to
xyz.com but maybe there’s some other
information that person needs to add
still okay so i created a website but
it’s not 100 finished maybe 90 finished
so if someone wants to express that they
can use a pattern like this
okay
okay let’s go to the next one some of
you are sending uh very very close
example sentences but there’s one
grammar error we need to look at okay
let’s look at this one and then maybe
you can fix your sentence so
i started jogging i started jogging so
this one
is this pattern a new thing i started
this thing this action
i started jogging
but i haven’t run in any races yet
i started jogging but i haven’t run in
any races yet okay
so
with this part i started jogging this
tells us the new action right something
we started to do okay but here
i saw some errors some mistakes in the
chat right here i haven’t run in any
races yet
this sentence i have not run
this is a negative present perfect
structure i haven’t run in any races yet
i saw a couple people right i uh i
didn’t finish yet i didn’t finish yet
like uh i think someone on youtube wrote
i started reading
a book but i didn’t finish it yet
we have to use this present perfect
grammar structure here so i started
reading a book but i haven’t finished it
yet so didn’t finish means complete in
the past right but you’re still reading
the book today right you’re continuing
that action same thing here you haven’t
run in any races yet maybe in the future
or you expect in the future maybe you
will okay so
use i haven’t run or i haven’t plus past
participle verb
for your verb to show that something is
continuing but not quite done yet okay
all right
i’m looking for
your questions your examples i did this
i created a website but i have not done
anything with it very nice very nice
okay cool all right anna says i never
finish my books i will try harder next
year good luck anna
okay what does jogging mean jogging
means running like running but for
exercise purposes jogging oh some people
yeah jogging jogging means running
running
okay
uh camilla says i started dieting but i
haven’t been able to lose weight perfect
sentence great great okay
good
rosa says i started studying so i
started studying no uh here i started
studying french
but i can do it okay so maybe in this
one
so this pattern i use for things that
are not complete like there’s a this is
like this is good however this is not so
good so in your case raza i started
studying french like that’s you can
finish it there like i’m excited or i
think i can do it okay all right
uh okay let’s continue to the next
example sentence
i started studying english i started
studying english or i started studying
french if you’re rosa i started studying
english but i can’t have a long
conversation
yet
but i can’t have a long conversation yet
so again this one we’re talking about
something that is not possible
yet okay so in this sentence i can’t
you could say i haven’t had a long
conversation yet which means up until
now i have not had this experience
that’s also okay
this expresses your condition i can’t
have a long conversation yet so maybe
you can talk for one minute or three
minutes but like an hour is really
really challenging yeah so i started
studying english but i can’t have a long
conversation yet okay
okay
oh i’m looking for your examples
okay some of you are writing simple past
tense good good good okay uh juan carlos
says i started studying hungarian but i
can’t form any sentences yet i can’t
form any sentences plural then it’s
perfect okay
all right lots of you are writing the
same sentence about books yeah i started
reading a book but i haven’t finished it
so i started reading a book but i
haven’t
finished it yet many of you are writing
i instead of haven’t your writing didn’t
i didn’t finish i didn’t complete i
haven’t finished it yet okay i haven’t
finished it yet okay
let’s go to the next one all right so
i moved to a new apartment i moved to a
new apartment but
i need to buy furniture
so here we’re expressing a finished
action this part is finished i moved to
a new apartment this is finished yeah
then here but
i need to buy furniture furniture
is the stuff in your house that you used
to sit on to sleep on for example a bed
a chair a table these things these are
called furniture furniture this category
so i moved to a new apartment but i need
to buy furniture okay
um all right good so this is uh these
are two patterns you can use to talk
about uh things that you started but
that are not done yet okay
um okay yeah some of some people are
writing i started a new hobby or i
started this new activity yeah you can
use just this part alone that’s fine i
started ing verb is great great okay
looks good
okay
um some others are sending some examples
colo says i started studying english for
three months but it’s difficult for me
to speak like you maybe i started
studying english three months ago three
months ago so we use for
uh duration of time
to talk about how long something
happened right
so you’re talking about a past point in
time yeah
okay anna says i moved to a new
apartment but i don’t have running water
yet is that true
really
is that true really
uh okay all right great let’s go to
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go to the third part for today the third
part for today is going to be about uh
changes and stopping behaviors okay so
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cool okay so let’s go to the last part
the last part for today
is about uh changed behaviors uh or just
changes and stopped behaviors okay so
things these are also kinds of
achievements right so changes that we
made
let’s talk about describing changes
describing changes okay so for this uh
section i want to focus on two verbs
increase
in past tense increased
and decreased decreased so there are two
patterns one basic pattern uh
with a variation so we have noun phrase
increased
by
amount
or noun phrase decreased by
amount so increase means go up
decrease means go down yeah so something
increased or something decreased so when
we say went up yeah you can say that it
sounds more casual
we use decreased for go down or
something that went down in past tense
so
we can use by plus the amount to talk
about the change right from here to here
how much
we express it with this right here
or you can use a lot as well just it
it’s just a lot a big change right okay
so let’s look at some examples uh that
use these increase and decrease words
you can send some in the chat too so
my salary
increased by 20 percent
my salary so your salary means the money
you receive from your job right
my salary
increased so went up
by 20
20 that’s a lot my salary increased by
20
so 20 is the change yeah from here to
here 20
okay
all right so my salary increased by 20
okay
uh mauricio says my company value
increased by 50 percent that’s nice in
one year that’s pretty that’s pretty
good that’s pretty good okay uh intake
oh yeah i’m going to talk about intake i
put this here on purpose so we could
talk about it
uh okay let’s go to the next one the
next one my junk food intake decreased
my junk food intake
decreased what does this mean so intake
intake
break this down in and take so
we use this to talk about like uh
the things we consume so for example
food and drink in this case my junk food
intake decreased
so you might hear intake used in a few
different kinds of situations we use it
with food and drink or we use it with tv
shows so media and movies or social
media whatever things we consume we put
in our brain or we put in our body right
my junk food intake
decreased so that means it went down
so this is a different way to say i ate
less junk food this year
so my junk food intake decreased
yeah okay so this is what intake means i
wanted to include this word as a new
vocabulary word for today’s lesson
so intake intake means the uh the
the thing that we consume so the level
of our consumption the level that we put
something into our mind or into our body
so my junk food intake or maybe like my
uh alcohol intake for example or yeah my
um my netflix maybe my netflix we might
use it for for media as well too so
intake refers to how much we put into
ourselves of something
okay
all right i’m looking for other ones
uh abdul rahman says i increased
my maybe english learning hours per week
that’s great yeah so i instead if i
increase learning english hours i
increased
my english study hours or my english
learning hours per week then it’s good
okay cool
um
riaz says my daily cost increased by 25
oh really so like your the money you
spend
increased by 25
so you can use that too my daily costs
increased by 25
jonathan says my english increased a lot
in the past few days my english
increased well that’s a hard one to say
it’s hard to say my like your language
increased we probably if you want to
talk about your language skill
use the word skill my english skills
increased a lot this year or like my
french skills
increased a lot this year we would use
skills to talk about that so my english
skills increased a lot that would be
natural cynthia says my body weight
increased you look very happy about that
cool okay good good all right okay so
let’s continue to the next one then okay
so um
i want to finish with a stopped behavior
so how do you talk about something like
a bad habit or some behavior you want to
stop how do you express that
so here’s the pattern we have subject
stopped
ing verb right so this is our past tense
verb stopped i stopped
ing
so
very common one i stopped smoking i
stopped smoking you cannot use i stopped
to smoke that means i stopped
and decided to smoke i stopped in order
to smoke okay
i stopped smoking means i
finished i finished smoking i don’t do
it anymore so i stopped smoking i
stopped smoking okay here’s another
common example i stopped spending
so much time at work
i stopped spending so much time at work
so this part so much is really important
you this sentence i stopped spending
time at work this means like i quit my
job or i don’t go to work anymore which
most people we need to go to work
right so i stopped spending so
much time at work means i decreased
how much time i spend at work so before
i spent like 80 hours a week
i don’t know at work and then i
decreased it to 40 hours or something so
i stopped spending so much time at work
you can use this for money too i stopped
spending so much money so before i spent
a thousand dollars every week i don’t
know and now i spend a hundred dollars
every week for example okay so this so
much is important i stopped spending so
much blah blah blah okay
okay
yeah how to say stop money spending yeah
some people are asking about that i
stopped spending so much money i stopped
spending so much money that’s a really
good pattern to use okay
all right
uh
some examples are coming in okay i
stopped wasting time on facebook oh good
one i stopped wasting time on facebook
for uh social media platforms i stopped
wasting time on twitter on instagram on
facebook your preposition should be on
there
what is the difference between spend and
waste
so to spend means to use a resource
right to spend time to spend money right
we’re using something that we have
and maybe it’s for a good reason we
don’t know waste means to throw away
like garbage so to waste time means to
use time for no good purpose right so to
spend is to use a resource maybe we get
something back spending time or spending
money we get like a product yeah
something but to waste means to throw it
in the garbage to waste time right
that’s the feeling you can think of the
vocabulary word waste basket to think
about that if it helps you like
into the waves basket with my time
okay
um written rin says i stopped overeating
great very nice example okay boruto says
i stopped playing football okay all
right um
all right good
i hope i said your name right on
facebook says my body weight decreased
by
0.2 or maybe just two kilos great so
just one thing my body weight decreased
don’t forget this d to make it past
tense yeah
then it’s perfect my body weight
decreased by two kilograms nice okay
phew uh rodolfo says i quit smoking too
right yes you can change uh quit uh for
stopped here i quit smoking also okay
yes yes
okay mena says i stopped buying fast
food okay uh um says i stopped spending
my money on booze is that right yes
perfect perfect this is the last example
sentence too about alcohol this is
another common one people want to change
this habit so i stopped drinking alcohol
i stopped drinking alcohol or if you
want to talk about spending money on a
specific thing
yeah your pattern is good i stopped
spending so much money
on
thing i stopped spending so much money
on alcohol i stopped spending so much
money on
cd well i don’t know like music i don’t
know i don’t know whatever your thing is
i stopped spending so much money on this
thing i stopped spending so much money
on
i don’t know the internet on internet
shopping whatever okay
good all right uh it looks okay some
people are saying
um okay some people are saying like
things that seem like positive things
some people say i stop said jeeb for
example says i stopped bike writing okay
so you can talk about
those stopped behaviors usually we want
to we want to express these behaviors
because it’s a positive change of some
kind yeah
so maybe i’m not sure if that’s
for everybody if everybody’s expressing
this as a positive change okay
uh good all right but your grammar looks
good i stopped eating junk food okay
uh
natalie what is the difference between
spend and consume so i just talked about
spend right we put we give our time or
our money to receive something right we
spend our time we spend our money
consume is the opposite right so when we
spend we’re giving something away right
we’re giving our time we’re giving money
to consume
means that we take something in right to
take something in like we consume food
we consume drinks we consume energy we
consume media right we’re putting
something in so they’re kind of
opposites sort of in a sense
okay i’m very late oh my gosh that was a
long one okay so i have to finish up for
this week’s lesson your grammar looks
pretty good to me so check it out uh the
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check this out and of course i have
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practice with okay i have to finish
there i am late so i will wrap this up
if you missed it here are today’s lesson
boards you can take a screenshot
so today we talked about using simple
past tense for complete achievements we
talked about how to express
your incomplete achievements things that
are not finished and we practiced
talking about changes and stopped
behaviors okay
cool so this was today’s topic uh this
is the last live live stream of the year
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be
how to give your opinion about the past
year so how do you express your feelings
about 2021 or any year so how do you
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