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

Fill in the Blank

How would you say that you go to the shop, but not today, yesterday?

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.