Past Tenses

Past Tenses to Talk About Vacation

August is a popular month for vacations, but now that the month is over, it’s useful to know how to tell people about what you did. This post will cover how to talk about your past summer plans with the Simple Present, the Past Continuous and the Past Perfect Continuous tenses.

Ew! I stepped in dog poop!

You smell a bad smell. You realize that the smell is coming from your shoe, so you look at it. It has some brown stuff stuck to the bottom of it.

Ew! 

Make this sound when you see, smell, or hear about something disgusting.

Is classical music boring?

Reproduce the dialogue, can you?

Music describes you

Write the script, could you?

No Pain, No Gain

This is an extremely useful and widely used phrase in spoken English. The phrase is “No pain, no gain“. “If something in life is too easy, then you won’t have any success”.

I think many cultures have the same idea.  It’s that life isn’t easy.  We need to work hard to get real results.  If you workout in a gym, your trainer might say to you, “no pain, no gain“.

All I want is...

You're single. You've been on a few dates with different men recently, but they all went badly. Now you're frustrated that you can't meet someone normal. You complain to your friend.

All I want is to meet a guy with a stable job and a good sense of humor. Is that too much to ask?

How To Use Get

Get has several meanings in English. For today’s English lesson, I am going to show you how to use get in a variety of situations.

1. We use get to mean receive something. When you get something in this meaning, it is