Imperfect or preterit online notes
- 1. Imperfect or Preterit Mrs. Huff Spanish 3
- 2. Preterit Tense • Remember your wheel and your giant/Grant chart of conjugations? • Need a copy of that chart? é amos í imos aste iste ó aron ió ieron
- 3. Imperfect Tense • Remember what we JUST took at test over last week? aba ábamos ía íamos ías abas aba aban ía ían
- 4. What’s the difference? • Both the PRETERIT and the IMPERFECT are tense about things that already happened, so . . .what’s the difference?? • Title your notes: Reasons to use the Preterit or Imperfect
- 5. Make a chart on your paper . . . Preterit Tense Imperfect Tense Past Tense
- 6. Preterit Tense 1. One-time action • It happened, it’s over • I FELL down the stairs. 2. Definite beginning and definite ending • Starting time and ending time • I GOT DRESSED for school. 3. Narration (of what happened) • Telling a story/sequence of events • Then I WENT into the cafeteria. 4. Interrupting action • An action that interrupts another action in the past • He was doing his homework when I CALLED.
- 7. Imperfect Tense 1. Ongoing action • A past action in progress (was/were) • I WAS SLEEPING on my couch at 8:00. 2. Repeated action • Happened often (used to) • She USED TO PLAY with dolls. 3. No definite beginning or end • No start time and no real ending • When I WAS A CHILD, . . . . 4. Time/Date/Age/Feeling/Description • All of those . . • When I WAS 10 years old, I WAS skinny. 5. Interrupted activity • An action that gets interrupted • He WAS DOING his homework when I called.