Preterite or Imperfect tense?

The imperfect tense is use to express actions that occurred...

• yesterday

• last night

• repeatedly in the past

• this morning

There are only ________ irregular verbs in the imperfect tense.

• 5

• 2

• 4

• 3

The irregular verbs in the imperfect are...

• ir, ver & estar

• ser, ver & tener

• ir, ver & ser

• estar, tener & ir

The preterite tense is used to refer to actions that...

• happened today

• used to happen

• are completed in the past

When you are describing something in the past, which tense do you use?

• Preterite

• Imperfect

To talk about past actions that are complete, which tense do you use?

• Preterite

• Imperfect

When you are listing a sequence of events in the past, which tense(s) do you use? (e.g. I went to art class, I sat in my chair, and I painted a portrait)

• Imperfect

• Preterite

• It depends

When two actions are happening simultaneously (at the same time) in the past, which tense(s) do you use? (e.g. While the artist was painting, he was listening to music)

• Both verbs in the imperfect

• Both verbs in the preterite

• 1st = imperfect; 2nd = preterite

• 1st = preterite; 2nd = imperfect

Yesterday I went to the park

• fui

• iba

Emilia and Pablo were teenagers that summer.

• fueron

• eran