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Survival course to learn English from scratch
INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDY
1- watch the video. 2- watch it again repeating after the teacher. 3- read the transcript (optional), see if you understand. 4- watch the video again once or more times until you learn the lesson well. 5- now try to use some objects to reproduce the dialogue (more or less) so you can practise what you just learnt. [With thanks to Hugosite]
When you are first speaking English, when you are learning to speak English, you have to be very careful of the word DID. Did you go to the store? It puts something into the past. Did you go to the store? means it happened already. It already happened. You went to the store.
If you see the word DID you have to use the present form of whatever verb you are using it with. Did you go to the store? No, I didn't go to the store. I went to the movie. I went to the movie. Did you go to the store? No, I went to the movie.
You don't say, "I did go to the movie". The only time you would say that, if someone contradicted you and if they said, "you didn't go to the movie, you didn't go". "Yes, I did go. Yes, I did. I did go to the movie. I went to the movie".
So, you could say, "Did you eat yet? are you hungry? did you eat yet?". And you would say, "Yes, yes, I ate, I ate already". You cannot say "I did eat", unless someone contradicted you: "You didn't eat", "Yes, I did eat, I did eat".
So from now on, when we practise the verbs, be very careful when you see the word DID or DIDN'T. You always use the present tense of the verb when you see the word DID or DIDN'T.
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