preterite and imperfect in the context of a sentence

We used these four short videos in a presentation for a Spanish class on the different uses of the preterite and imperfect. This is an English version. We used the idea of students reading and phones ringing to illustrate the differences of the two past tense forms in the context of a single sentence. Two simultaneous actions will be represented in the imperfect, an interrupting action will be in the preterite while the constant action will be in the imperfect, and if there are two consecutive actions the verbs will be in the preterite.

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Education

Tags:

• spanish
• español
• preterite
• pretérito
• imperfect
• imperfecto
• phone
• teléfono
• read
• leer
• presentation
• presentación
• class
• clase

[Xaoey]

Nice work! I love the music :)