Pupil outcome: I can describe what I and others 'were doing' and what 'was happening' using the imperfect tense. Key learning points: - The imperfect tense is used to describe what 'was happening' or what you 'were doing' when something...

We've learned about present tense and future tense, so now let's learn a past tense. The first past tense we will learn is the imperfect tense, for the first and second conjugations. This tense describes a progressive or habitual action...

Pupil outcome: I can form yes/no questions in the perfect and imperfect tenses to ask questions about famous German speakers. Key learning points: - [er] at the end of a word is unstressed and sounds like the English ‘uh’. - The [r] in...

Alexa conjugates the French verb avoir (to have) in the imperfect tense.

Learn to describe friends in Spanish by listening as Juan and Pamela describe childhood friends and what they used to do together using the imperfect tense. We all have conversations about our friends and our childhood. In this video,...

Alexa conjugates the French verb être (to be) in the imperfect tense.

Pupil outcome: I can use the perfect and imperfect tenses to understand the recent experiences of a young person arriving to live and study in Germany. Key learning points: - Use the imperfect forms 'hatte', 'war', 'gab' to talk about...

We've learned the simpler future and imperfect tenses for regular first and second conjugation verbs. But there are irregular verbs that will also need to use these tenses, and some of them are very common, such as the verb sum, so we...

Learn Spanish past tenses and vocabulary by listening as Juan and Pamela talk about a box of keepsakes and memories. We all have conversations about the past and things that are important to us. In this video, you will learn lots of...

Pupil outcome: I can talk about what my town used to be like in the past using the imperfect tense of regular and irregular verbs. Key learning points: - 'avoir' and 'faire' have regular stems in the imperfect tense: 'av-' and 'fais-'. -...

Pupil outcome: I can use the imperfect, preterite and past continuous tenses in the context of protests and social movements. Key learning points: - 'iba', 'ibas' and 'iba' are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular imperfect forms of...

Pupil outcome: I can use plural forms of the imperfect tense in the context of protests and social movements. Key learning points: - ábamos, -abais and -aban are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person plural endings of -ar verbs in the imperfect...

Pupil outcome: I can use irregular verbs in the perfect tense and ‘mochte’ in the imperfect tense in the context of career choices. Key learning points: - Some past participles are irregular. - In the imperfect tense, the stem of 'mögen'...

Pupil outcome: I can distinguish between the present and imperfect tenses in the life of a Nuyorican. Key learning points: - The imperfect tense is used to talk about habitual actions in the past or to describe how things were in the...

Pupil outcome: I can use modal verbs in the imperfect tense to talk about work and studying. Key learning points: - [o] and [ö] are long when followed by no consonants or only one consonant. - To form the imperfect of singular modal...

This Spanish story is the past and uses both the preterite tense and the imperfect tense in a natural context. Learn Spanish past tense verbs and vocabulary as you listen to the story about a lost cell phone. You’ll learn common Spanish...

Pupil outcome: I can use the imperfect, past continuous and preterite tenses to write an extended past-tense account. Key learning points: - The imperfect tense is used for what used to happen repeatedly and to set the scene in...

compares French tenses IMPERFECT and the PASSÉ COMPOSÉ - Lesson 51 of Alexa’s popular Beginner’s French Essentials course

In this lesson we'll continue addressing some major differences between the preterite and the imperfect tenses in Spanish. Both are past tenses but they have different meanings.

Here's a song based around the traditional song: "Cielito Lindo" to help you remember the difference uses of the Preterite and the Imperfect tenses in Spanish.

This video lesson covers the ONLY three verbs that are irregular in the imperfect tense. They are ir (to go), ser (to be) and ver (to see).

This is the 8th video of German with Puppets Series #2. In this video my puppets explain how to use the imperfect tense (simple past or narrative past) with regular verbs.

compares French tenses CONDITIONAL and the IMPERFECT - Lesson 52 of Alexa’s popular Beginner’s French Essentials course

Pupil outcome: I can use knowledge of the imperfect and preterite to respond to reading comprehension questions in the context of the work of Arturo Pérez Reverte. Key learning points: - The 1st, 2nd and 3rd person plural imperfect...