Pretérito

Pretérito

Spanish preterite tense

Pretérito

In Spanish you can use a simple past tense to talk about many actions in the past: this tense is called pretérito!

Poll

Do you know what a past tense is in English?

• Yes

• I can't remember

Multiple Choice

How many tenses do we have to say that something happened in the past in English?

• Just one

• Many

In English you can describe an action that has already happened with these forms

• I went

• I was going

• I have gone

• I had gone

• I would have gone

The simplest way

The simplest way to form the past in English is to use the past simple, like in went, or inthe verbs that end in -ed.

Open Ended

Do you remember a verb that ends with -ed in the past tense?

In Spanish

In Spanish, every subject have a different verb.