Talking about trips (Part 1/2) | Starter Quiz | Oak National Academy

Use the imperfect continuous tense to say....

• what we should do now

• what you are going to do

• what you were doing

Use the imperfect of........+ a present continuous

• estar

• ser

• tener

To say ‘was just about to do something’ use the

• imperfect of estar plus por and an infinitive

• imperfect of estar plus the past tense

• imperfect of estar plus the present tense

Estabas bailando means

• I was dancing

• You are dancing

• You were dancing

You were about to go out

• Estaba por salir

• Estabas por salir

• Estabas saliendo

como

• even

• if

• like, as

así que

• earlier

• therefore

• very

mientras

• however

• therefore

• while

cuando

• when

• which

• who

incluso

• enough

• even, including

• excluding