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🗓️ 20 July 2010
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It’s time to put into practice what you’ve been learning about the preterite tense. In this week’s episode Mark challenges Kara to an identity quiz using lots of preterite tenses to describe the lives of the mystery personalities. Please note that lesson 17 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 217 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.
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0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination, not a car in the world, as you simply lean back. |
0:17.0 | And before you know it, you're there. |
0:20.0 | This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does. |
0:25.0 | Avanti West Coast, feel good travel. |
0:41.0 | Well, I've been there in a coffee break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. |
0:45.0 | It's lesson 57. And in this lesson, we're going to be using all the preterate tendencies that we've been working on recently, |
0:52.0 | combining them with some of the adjectives that we were learning previously. |
0:56.0 | And we'll have another identity quiz to see if you can work out who we're talking about based on the information that we give you. |
1:03.0 | I hope you enjoy the lesson. |
1:11.0 | So, we are going to start today's lesson with our personality quiz. |
1:15.0 | We did one of these a few weeks back at our end Christmas time. |
1:18.0 | I've just realised, Carrie, you weren't here that time, were you? |
1:21.0 | No, I wasn't. |
1:22.0 | Well, maybe there's something about personality quizzes and you're not feeling too well. |
1:26.0 | Maybe. |
1:27.0 | But you're here tonight, so that means that we'll be able to test you on your preterate tendencies. |
1:31.0 | Because this personality quiz is talking about the past. We're talking about people who were born and died and so on in the past. |
1:40.0 | Just a couple of questions for you. And we're going to begin with the first one now. |
1:46.0 | I'm going to read the whole paragraph quite quickly and I want you to see how much you understand from the first reading. |
1:53.0 | Are you ready, Carrie? |
1:55.0 | Yes, I'm ready. |
1:57.0 | Well, let's see. |
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