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Apr 9, 2025
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hello and welcome back to learn English
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with B Global my name is Kristen here at
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learn English and I am looking forward
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to teaching you today about time so
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we're going to talk about the different
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ways to say time both with days and with
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the time of the day using the clock and
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I want to make sure to go over how to
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talk about it both now in the past
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and in the future so to start off let's
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look at our
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clock so this here is our clock this
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will tell us what time of the day it is
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so if someone were to come up to you and
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say excuse me what time is
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it what time is it you would be able to
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tell them what time it is according to
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this clock here we have the short hand
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at the 12 and the long hand at the
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nine that means that it is
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1245 now we talk about in the United
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States we use our 12-hour clock system
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so we have 12 hours for
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a.m. and we have 12 hours for
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pm and this
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is
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anti-
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meridian and
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post
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meridian so if we're talking about am we
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are talking about those hours between 12
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a.m. and
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11:59 a.m.
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a.m. once it gets to be 12: p.m. or
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noon then we go into p.m. so it's 11:59
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a.m. 12:00 p.m. and then that goes all
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the way up until
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11:59 p.m. at night so hopefully that
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helps kind of explain that for those of
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you that are using the 24hour system you
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have larger numbers so once you hit your
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12:00
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p.m. where here we would say 100 p.m.
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you then are going on to
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13 1300
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hours and then 2:00 is
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14 let me just go all the way around
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here so then you're basing your clock
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off of a 24-hour day and using all 24
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hours here in the United States we use a
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and p.m. unless you are in the military
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and the military uses the 24-hour model
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as well but today I'm going to talk
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mostly about using a.m and p.m. so let's
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say that it is
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12:45 and it's 12:45
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p.m. that means it's after noon that's
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where we get afternoon from so for 12:45
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p.m. if someone were to ask me what time
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is it I could say it's
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12:45 I could also say it's A4 to
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1 because 45 is only 15 minutes or one
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quarter of this whole circle until it
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gets to the top of the hour which is
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right where the hour
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stands now if we're talking about past
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we could say it was
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12:45 instead of it is
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12:45 some people may even say it is
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almost
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1:00 we use oock when we're talking
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about the exact hour on the
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hour so it can be 1:00
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and when you're using o' you do not use
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am or p.m if someone says what time is
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it right now you can say it's 1:00 they
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will know because they are asking you
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what time it is and that if you are face
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to face it's already inferred whether or
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not that is p.m. or a.m. if you were on
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the phone with somebody and they were in
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another time zone or they were in
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another area of the world where maybe
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they wouldn't didn't know whether it was
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you know in the afternoon if it was the
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am or the p.m. or where it stands then
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what you can say is
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1:00 in
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the
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afternoon so you can say it's 1:00 in
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the afternoon or it's 7:00 in the
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evening
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or it's 9:00 in the
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morning when we're using the hour on the
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hour and we use the phrase o'l you want
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to make sure that you then specify
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whether it's morning afternoon or
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evening or nighttime but you do not use
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am or p.m when you're using
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oock okay so what I'd like to do now is
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look at yeah so what we're talking about
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is right now that's the present time so
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we have today it is now 4:00 it is now
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300 p.m. it is
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3:15 or A4 after 3: it is 3:30 p.m. or
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half past 3 so we have quarters that we
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use
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you and we also can use half
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it's half past or quarter
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till okay so that gives you a small
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little lesson on different ways that you
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can say it but you can always just say
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what it is it is
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12:45 it is
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345 it is
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4:45 and if you're not sure about the am
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or p.m. if somebody wants to know they
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will ask you they'll say is that a. or P
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p.m. and then you can tell them you can
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remember that the the a comes first in
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the alphabet and am is morning P comes
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later in the alphabet PM is afternoon
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evening and night time so we have the
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present it is now today okay and then
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for the past that's when we want to
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discuss you know it was 3:00 yesterday
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in the afternoon it was and you that's
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when you'll use was for the time for
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future you would like to say it is going
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to be or it will be at
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4:00 it will be at
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3:45 it will be at
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8:15 okay so that's a quick little
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lesson on time now before we get into
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more of the past present and future I
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want to talk about the days of the week
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so we have seven days in our week and
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those seven days make up one
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week so you may hear what day is it
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sometimes people forget they get so busy
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and they're not sure what day it
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is please be in mind because they can
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sound similar what day is it is talking
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about the day of the week if someone
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asks what's the
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date
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they are talking about the day of the
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month on the calendar that is the date
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these are the days of the week so we
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start with Sunday and then we go to
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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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and Saturday so Sunday and
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Saturday
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those are our
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weekend those two days are our weekend
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it's the end of the week so when we're
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talking about days and someone says what
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day is it if you're talking about today
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you would say it is
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Monday if you're talking about tomorrow
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that's the next day so let's talk about
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just today today it is
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Monday now today is Monday it is Monday
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that's talking about here and right now
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and then we go into the past so you can
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use the word last last week last month I
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took a test in school last year I went
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shopping every
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Sunday so you you can use weeks months
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and years and use the term last you
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would not say last day if you are
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referring to the day that came before
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today that word is
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yesterday so you can say yesterday at
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12:45 p.m. I went to lunch with a
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friend
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today at
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3:00 I will be meeting my
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boss will be means it's in the
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future so yesterday was in the
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past today is now will be is in the
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future you can say in 2 days from
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now I will go to the mall so if today is
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Monday 2 days from now would be
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Wednesday in two 2 days from
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now I will be going to the mall if
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you're talking about 2 days
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ago I was
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sick okay so I hope that gives you some
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examples of how to discuss time the best
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thing that I can tell you is to watch
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and sit if you have time to go to like a
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coffee shop and maybe sit with friends
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and listen to them talk
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especially after a weekend everyone
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always wants to discuss what they did on
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the weekend so they may say what did you
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do this
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weekend on Saturday I went out to dinner
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with my
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family and then on Sunday I went to
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church with my
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husband and then they may say what did
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you do last
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weekend last weekend is in the past so
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that should be your key word
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there last weekend I went out of town on
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vacation and next weekend I will be
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working so when you use next that's in
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the
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future and that can be week it can be
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months it can be years um you want to
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say next week next month next
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year okay so I just wanted to be able to
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give you some examples on how to do the
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past and the present I know that it's a
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lot of information I encourage you to go
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back and watch this video again and
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really pay attention to the times to the
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days and practice using the past tense
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and the future tense and the present to
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help remember what those key words are
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so that you know what they are when you
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go to speak with a
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friend I hope you enjoyed today's lesson
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I as always enjoyed teaching you I do
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look forward to our next lesson and I
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will see you next time thank you for
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bye
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