The imperfect tense: regular verbs

The imperfect tense is used to refer to __________ events.

• present

• past

• future

We use the imperfect tense to refer to...(choose two)

• how things are normally

• actions that happened in the past repeatedly

• a description of the past

• actions that happened once in the past

To form the imperfect tense, remove the - AR/-ER/-IR ending from the infinitive and add

• (ar) -aba, -abas, -aba, -ábamos, -abais, -aban

  (er/ir) - ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -íais, -ían,

• (ar) -é, -aste, -ó, -amos, -asteis, -aron

  (er/ir) -í, -iste, -ió, -imos, -isteis, -ieron

• (ar) -o, -as, -a, -amos, -áis, -an

  (er/ir) -o, -es, -e, -emos, -éis, -en

Todos los años I visited la costa de Gales.

• visitaba

• visito

• visité

• visitía

El hotel didn't have una piscina.

• no tiene

• no tuvo

• no tenía

• no tuvía

I was swimming en el mar cuando empezó a llover.

• Nadabas

• Nadaba

• Nadábamos

• nado

Which tense would you need to translate this sentence to Spanish?

"We always go to Greece with my cousins."

• Present tense

• Preterite tense

• Imperfect tense

Which tense would you need to translate this sentence to Spanish?

"Last year I went to Spain."

• Present tense

• Preterite tense

• Imperfect tense

Which tense would you need to translate this sentence to Spanish?

"We used to go to Portugal every summer."

• Present tense

• Preterite tense

• Imperfect tense

Which tense would you need to translate this sentence to Spanish?

"The beach was really clean."

• Present tense

• Preterite tense

• Imperfect tense