1. ~The Imperfect Tense~

2. 2 Main Past Tenses in Spanish In Spanish, there are 2 main tenses used to talk in the past: 1. El Pretérito 2. El Imperfecto

3. El Pretérito Remember: The PRETÉRITO is used to talk about actions that are completed. They have a definite beginning and ending.  Yesterday I ate dinner at 5:00.  I woke up, got dressed, and ate breakfast.

4. El Imperfecto EL IMPERFECTO is a tense used to describe actions in the past that are not seen as completed. This tense is primarily used to DESCRIBE in the past.

5. El Imperfecto  As a child, I used to always play soccer.  My family and I used to vacation in Hawaii every Summer.  I was very shy as a kid.

6. Conjugation: Endings  Drop the Ending (AR, ER, IR)  Add: For AR Verbs: aba abas aba ábamos (*Note the accent mark*) aban

7. Conjugation: Endings For ER and IR Verbs: ía ías ía íamos ían *NOTE = All of the endings have an accent on the “i”

8. Práctica Hablar = hablaba hablabas hablaba hablábamos hablaban

9. Práctica Comer = comía comías comía comíamos comían

10. Irregular Verbs:  There are only 3 irregular verbs!!! ser era eras era éramos eran

11. ir iba ibas iba íbamos iban

12. ver veía veías veía veíamos veían

13. Use the Impefect To: To talk about actions that were repeated or habitual:  We would eat watermelon every summer. (watermelon = sandía)  Comíamos sandía todos los veranos.

14. Use the Impefect To: To Tell Time in The Past And To Tell Sombody’s Age In The Past

15.  Era la una cuando ví la película.  Eran las tres y media cuando empezó la clase.  Yo tenía diez años cuando recibí mi primera bicicleta.

16. Práctica De niña, yo ___ con las muñecas. (jugar) *jugaba* Mi familia y yo siempre ____ la Navidad con mis abuelos. *celebrábamos*

17. Traduzca al Español:  I used to always wear jeans and T-shirts.  When I was six years old, I used to always play baseball with my friends.

18. Práctica  My family and I visited my grandparents in California a lot.  My brothers swam in the river every day.