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My name is Alicia and today we're going to talk about how to talk about your achievements from 2019 with past tense and present.

Perfect, tense and past perfect tense.

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As they said today, we're going to talk about how to talk about your achievement.

So achievements means the things that you were able to do.

Like your successes for the year.

So I thought this would be a great livestream topic to end 2019.

So today, as always, I've broken it into three different parts.

It's a little hard to see, but we'll zoom in.

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So I am going to share the video, and then I am going to begin today's lesson.

So today I'm going to break the topics.

I'm going to break the grammar points into three parts.

I'm going to look at using a simple past tense, simple past tense to describe your achievements.

And then we're going to practice, uh, present perfect.

Its present perfect tense, including President Perfect, continuous.

And then I'm going to talk about past Perfect.

So we'll do some grammar review of the maybe most requested grammar points from 2019 for the year.

So let's begin with simple past tense.

First simple past tense.

Ah, a reminder.

When do we use simple past tense?

So we use simple past tense for actions that started and ended in the past.

So I've done this many times and live streams and in lessons.

But just to give a visual just to give kind of an image to help you, uh, see the differences between these grammar points.

If we imagine on a timeline, where here this star is now, this direction is the future, and back here is the past we can imagine.

Simple past tense is used to talk about an action of activity, whatever that started in the past.

So if this X is my start point and this is my end point or whatever, So the action started and ended in the past.

Everything happened before the conversation.

Yeah.

So there's no relationship to the present.

This is a difference with the other grammar points in this lesson.

So it started and ended in the past.

Okay, so let's take a look then, at just some sample sentences, Uh, that used simple past tense to express on achievement.

So, for example, sentence I created I created a website, a website for my company.

So this is just a sample, like a work achievements that you can think about.

So a couple points here first, obviously, the simple past verb here I created I created, so create is tthe e regular the infinitive form of the verb in past tense, it becomes created, created, so created, uh, simple past, as I said, is a good vocabulary word to use here.

I want to mention on.

This is good for those of you who are like studying English for interviews or studying English for work or maybe practice writing resumes and so on your resume is your work history.

By the way, eso when you're talking about your achievements with words like this, try to choose specific words like created, for example instead of made so words like do or make are very general, but it's a good idea to be specific and choose vocabulary words that kind of have some punch to them.

So instead of I made a website like I created a website, so that kind of shows that from zero to the product, you were in charge of it.

So this is our first example.

Another example.

Uh, let's change industries.

We built a house, four power clients, so different industry here.

However, I'm using a different.

I'm using a different perv, obviously, and this is not a regular verb.

So a reminder about simple past tense, not all verbs and in E.

D.

So regular verbs conjugated with this e d ending to make simple past tense build, however, is not a regular verb.

Yah build becomes built in simple past tense.

So we built a house for our clients.

We built a house for our clients, and we build houses for our clients as well so please keep in mind.

They're like regular verbs that end in E.

D.

In simple past tense.

And then there are irregular verbs like a built in this case.

Okay, So your task, then hard to see here.

But your task everybody watching live or not, is to describe something you achieved in 2019.

Describe something you achieved in 2019.

So while you're thinking and while you're typing, I will write a couple more example sentences.

So here's what we'll change the subject again.

She designed a hotel last year.

She designed a hotel last year.

So in this sentence, my simple past tense verb is this.

Designed and design design is tthe e infinitive form of the verb in simple past tense.

It's just takes the e.

D ending.

This is a regular verb.

She designed a hotel last year.

So as I was talking about earlier, using design here is a little more specific, actually a lot more specific than saying like she made a hotel last year.

What does that mean?

So design is clear.

Like what was she in charge of the design of the hotel?

She designed a hotel last year.

Okay, Some examples.

Air coming in.

Great.

Uh, Andrew Andrews says I improved my English with the help of your chattel.

Whoa, That's great.

Happy to hear that.

Awesome.

Uh, 100 says I learned many phrase all verbs.

Fantastic.

Great, great.

Free on Facebook.

I don't see any yet.

Lots of people saying hello.

Great.

Okay.

Fair on YouTube says I found out about English class 101 this year.

Great.

Ah, Shoes says I created a YouTube channel.

Great, Great, Great.

Abdel says.

I moved to a new town three months ago.

Good.

See, Home says I discovered your channel one year ago.

Very nice.

Example.

Sentences on Facebook Now.

I planted roses last year.

I bought a house last year.

Okay.

Oh, Bree says I cried in Singularity means alone.

So talking.

Let's talk about maybe your achievements.

Let's try to focus on the positive aspects of the last year for today to end the year on a positive note.

Okay, I'll share one more example.

Uh, this one again.

Different topic.

He won and award.

He won an award.

Four is research.

Okay?

He won an award for his research.

So again, I'm using an irregular verb and irregular verb Here, my verb is win in past tense.

It's one once.

I'm not one like Korean money, but one like the number one.

So he won an award for the proposition that we use here is for he won an award for his research.

Four noun phrase.

So if you win an award or some kind of other like prestigious I don't know recognition, you could say I won past tense.

I won an award for something.

For some reason, I often see many learners using present tense here.

Like I win something like that.

I won an award.

Four distinct.

So Okay, great.

Some examples air coming in.

Uh, I'll read a couple and then we'll move along on.

Oh, my gosh.

Did I just see that on Facebook?

It said I became a U.

S.

Citizen last month.

Where was that?

That was awesome.

Where was it?

Ah, maybe it'll appear here in a second.

Uh, I hope I missed it.

I think it all right on.

Ah, if that was true, if someone actually did say they became a U S.

Citizen last month Awesome.

Congratulations.

That's huge.

That's very exciting.

Um, on you do?

Cat says, Is this live at Christmas time?

I can't believe it.

Yes, it is.

Live it is live.

Uh, kat dot com says I completed my software course last week.

Great.

Fantastic.

Congratulations.

Okay, uh, others.

He won a race again and received a gold medal.

Says Lucas.

Fantastic.

Okay.

Nestor says I acquired a set of English skills Looking back on 2019.

Fantastic.

Many of you are writing about improving your English or I improved my English in 2019.

That is fantastic.

That's really, really great to hear.

Happy for you guys.

Someone says I graduated a course in clinical something.

The comments are going fast.

Okay.

Monday says I earn my Ph.

M.

D last year.

While congratulations.

That's amazing.

Awesome.

There are lots of cool achievements from all around the world.

That's awesome.

Okay, so with that s o simple past tense practice.

Let's take one quick break and then we'll move to a different grammar point.

This one s so we're going to practice present.

Perfect.

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