CBS 2.37 | Review of tenses

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🗓️ 5 April 2011

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this episode María-José tells Andrew about her visits to the Canary Islands. She uses lots of examples of the imperfect tense to describe what she used to do when she went there several times when she was younger. Please note that lesson 37 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 237 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	Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish.
0:13.3	Now in this lesson, Manehose and Andrew are talking about the Canary Islands and they're
0:18.2	using lots of past tencies so there will be examples of the perfect tense, the press
0:23.3	returns and the imperfect tense in there too.
0:26.9	Hope that you find this lesson a useful review of the past tencies in Spanish.
0:37.8	Okay so as usual we're going to begin by listening to the conversation between Manehose and Andrew
0:44.0	and this time Andrew is asking Manehose about the island of Denerife which is one of the Canary
0:50.1	Islands of the coast of Africa it belongs to Spain and they speak Spanish. However you will find
0:56.7	out that they do actually use some different words in Canarias and that's what Manehose is
1:01.7	going to be talking about in this conversation. Now Cara I'd like you to see if you can spot the
1:07.9	things that Manehose used to do in Denerife when she was there on holiday. Before we even listen
1:15.2	to this conversation if we're talking about what she used to do which tense we'll should be using.
1:22.4	We'll be using the imperfect. That's right so if Manehose is talking in the imperfect
1:29.5	then we're going to be listening for what types of endings with the imperfect tense.
1:34.9	We'll be looking out for the Ia endings and the Abba endings.
1:39.5	Absolutely. Have a listen to the conversation and see how much you understand.
1:52.6	Yes, many times when we were young we were always going to Denerife. My aunt had a house in
2:01.6	the Christians and we were going to spend the month of August with her. What did you do?
2:08.2	It was great. There was always a lot of people and we had many friends of the Christians. We were going to the beach,
2:18.5	we were going to the restaurant and we went out every night.
2:24.6	Is there a volcano there, right?
2:27.1	Yes, it's the most famous tourist attraction in Denerife Island. It's called the Taide.
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