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Tiempos perfectos continuos, condicionales mixtos, verbos con preposición, matices de los modales y escritura formal.
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Narrative Tenses, Parte 1 de 2
Use the past simple, past continuous and past perfect as one system: background, main events and earlier events, and stop translating the Spanish imperfect with -ing.
Narrative Tenses, Parte 2 de 2
Add the past perfect continuous: how long something had been going on, and the visible traces of an earlier activity. Learn to translate «llevaba dos horas esperando».
Contrast Clinic: was doing, had done or had been doing?
One moment in the past, three timelines: decide whether an action was in progress, already finished, or had been going on up to that moment.
Error Hunt: Story Tenses
Find and fix the tense mistakes Spanish speakers make most in stories: the missing past perfect, continuous state verbs and wrong past participles.
Transform: Rebuild the Timeline
Join two events into one sentence with when, as soon as, after, before, until and by the time, and place just and already correctly with the past perfect.
Dialogue Lab: What Happened?
Follow two friends talking about a disastrous trip: keep the tenses consistent across turns and react like a native speaker with No way! and What happened next?
Real Mission: Tell an Anecdote
Build a personal anecdote step by step: set the scene, tell the key events, fill in the backstory and finish with the right linkers, including in the end and eventually.
Story Detective: The Missing Laptop
Read a short office mystery and solve it by reading the tense sequence: who had left before the theft, who had been working late, and what really happened.
Spiral Review: Independence Pasts
Fix for good the Independence past errors that still appear at the Upper Intermediate level: I have seen him yesterday, since three years, I use to, and the past perfect after when.
Chain Story: One Sentence at a Time
Build a story sentence by sentence, choosing the tense that fits what came before, and add used to and would for past habits.
Mastery Check: Narrative Tenses
An unhinted test of all four narrative tenses, past habits and state verbs, with lots of translation from Spanish: llevaba, había estado, acababa de, al final.
Drill: Was Doing, Had Done or Had Been Doing?
You will be able to choose between the past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous around one moment in a story, and translate «llevaba + gerundio» correctly.
Drill: By the Time, Just, Already and In the End
You will be able to fix the classic story-tense errors, join events with by the time, as soon as and until, place just and already correctly, and finish an anecdote with in the end or eventually.
Drill: Used To, Would and the Whole Story
You will be able to describe past habits with used to and would, keep the present perfect out of finished stories, and combine all four narrative tenses without the typical Spanish-speaker slips.
Unit 1 review: Narrative Tenses
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in "Narrative Tenses", then a short unit quiz.
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