hello welcome back to Real English with Real Teachers we are here in a lovely bar in London and
we're going to show you how to use every tense in the English language in under
10 minutes are we really yeah we are Oh God
okay let's go before we jump into the conversation we want to stress the
importance of practicing tenses now the word tense comes from the Latin word
tempus which means time so in English it is the tense that allows us to
indicate the chronological order of events and how they occur occurred or
will occur therefore to be able to communicate and share our ideas
effectively in both spoken and written English it is extremely important to have a
good command of these tenses as English teachers we know that you guys can
complete any grammar exercise that we give you and you can fill in the gaps
and get those grammar tenses perfect however when it comes to actually
putting them into practice in a normal daily conversation it all gets a lot
harder doesn't it a great way to exercise the tenses accurately is to get
yourself a native English teacher who is trained to target these tenses all
within a natural organic conversation class for that reason we've partnered up
with Cambly an amazing app which allows you to do
exactly that not only can you develop your speaking fluency with a native
English tutor from all over the world but you can do this immediately at the
click of a button and even more this is 24/7 Harry and I we work on a strict
9:00 to 6:00 well I do I don't know about Harry maybe he's a bit more
lenient but this app you can get it whenever you want
wherever you want it's ridiculous so we really
recommend you have a look at it Harriet was having some real issues expressing
herself in the past tense so she gave Cambly a go let's see how she get on I
mean got on er hello hello what's your name
err my name is Harriet
so tell me try and tell me a story about your childhood
ohh do you have a good memory from your childhood
err my childhood
[laughter]
one time I am walking
in the park okay one time I was walking in the park ahh okay thank you
I was walking in the park and I fall over
okay and I fell over
ahh I was walking in the park and I fell over and I got poo on my leg
oh no
[laughter]
that was very good you used the past
ahh don't we love seeing Harriet brushing up on a spot of English so she was using
her free class with Cambly and because we've partnered up with them
we've been able to get you guys a free class on us
so head over there through our link in the description box below and claim your
completely free class we hope you enjoy it but first stay here and enjoy a
conversation between Harry and myself talking in tenses throughout this video
keep an eye on the timeline which we have put below because this indicates
the tense that we are using in our conversation and the changes that we
make between those senses also you will see that a gold star will appear
occasionally this gold star will appear when we use a grammar tense in a less
common irregular way so you can check the description for each example so
err when did you move to America I moved to America back in 2015 how long
were you there I was there for about two years right how was it it was amazing
yeah yeah good fun before you moved to America had you been to America before I
had been to America before actually yeah back in 2002 I had been to America
before okay and how long had you been thinking about moving to America
I had been thinking about moving to America for a good nine months and then
things got a bit complicated bit of drama she did what she wanted I did what
I wanted and then
[laughter]
and then things developed spicy ohh
and what was it exactly that made
you make that decision to to move to America because that must have been
quite a difficult decision to make it was quite a big decision yeah but it was
Stacey's very very romantic suggestion at an airport that I was transferring
through back in the September of 2015 I think so she made this big gesture to
show her love to me and it made me come back to her the following Christmas to
start our new year together and are you still with Stacey now no she left me no no
I'm still with her so how long have you been together we have been together for
two nearly three years are you living together as well we are we have been
living together for two years and before stacey had you lived with any other any
other girlfriends like ex-girlfriends umm not properly not properly no I had
lived I had lived with them temporarily but we all knew it was temporary so we
don't need to delve into that
[laughter]
okay okay so delve in like we don't need to
explore that we don't need to explore that delve into yeah we will leave that
yeah leave it alone yeah and what are you doing right now I mean right at this moment
right here right now I am drinking my drink with my good pal Harry for our
Christmas party or during our Christmas party we're celebrating the Real English
With Real Teachers first full year yeah it's been it's been a good year hasn't it
it has been a good year it has been a very good year really good year yeah yeah
and how would you say the
night is going so far the night's going pretty well umm fairly strong I think we've
been to four places each of which we've had good conversation mixed with a bit
of work we find it hard to detach ourselves from that we do yeah but we we
realized that instead of banning it from our relaxation we found that we bloody
love it so it's inevitable it's true yeah we did originally say when we started this this
channel that it would be a hobby as well as you know part of our profession and
it is that like it is a fun thing to do yeah it's really fun yeah what do you think of
this bar umm this bar this bar is quite trendy yeah yeah it gives quite a sharp
tasting cocktail but it's trendy relatively trendy quite overpriced
but you know we are in London it is a little bit yeah most of the drinks were over 10 pounds err when I pay
for a drink I expect to get a little bit of change back for a tenner
personally agreed I'd like to I'd like to yeah yeah but we shouldn't expect
it when you come to London because all the prices are sky high aren't they it's true
yeah yeah yeah you're dead on what are you doing this weekend
err this weekend I am celebrating the new year
yeah so still not got concrete plans but either celebrating with Stacey and a
friend called Steph that you know yes or celebrating with this old guy yeah okay
yeah what's the time now the time right now is 7:30 what do you think you'll
be doing at 7:30 on New Year's Eve I will be err scared about what option to
choose because I still won't have made my mind up really you think maybe maybe
I'm an indecisive one so by 7:30 you will have been making your mind up for
I will have been trying to make my mind up for a long time but by 8 o'clock I
will have decided what I'm going to do at 12 a.m. in your heart of hearts what
do you really think you're you're going to do on New Year's well in my heart of hearts I know
that I want to spend it with Stacey because New Year's Eve / Day is when I asked her
out so that's our anniversary as well I asked her out in a bathroom though so
it's not the most romantic you asked her out in the bathroom yeah in our friends you weren't
doing a poo were you no she was no I'm joking she never does poos you know why I love
you Stacey your poos don't smell I bumped into a uni mate earlier
oh yeah yeah do you remember Greg yes yeah yeah it was one of his mates he was called Johnny
he was on our course
Johnny yeah you remember him like he sat he sat next to Greg in our lectures
I remember Greg I don't no I don't think I
you definitely will have seen him
I remember once we were sitting right
next to them and we were actually speaking with Greg and the other guy was there so
you definitely will have seen him has he has he got long hair err yes yes he has yeah
okay he's not much of a looker not much of a looker yeah his mate Greg though is
good-looking but terrible personality it's coming back to me now the memories
are flooding back he was actually really funny
so if you combine those two in the right way you make a good specimen
yeah a bloody good human maybe it's like us if you combine us in the right ways you make a
good overall teacher
how long have you been teaching English for
or how long have you been working in this profession I've been teaching English
I've been teaching in this industry for four years and counting four years and
you're counting no one else is
so on the 28th of December 2018 how long will you have
been teaching English for next December I will have been teaching for five years
five years yeah wow and do you think by then you will have learnt everything there is
to know about English 100% not no I need to hit the books a little bit more okay
umm what time are you going back tonight err probably just past midnight okay what
time do you arrive home I will be getting there at 12:34 am okay so you will have arrived by
12:35 I will have arrived at 12:35 yeah yeah I will be in bed by 12:45 all right
well I hope you have a safe trip brother thanks thanks I hope you get
home safely too so there you go all the tenses of the English language in one
10-minute video before you go in the comments section try to create your own
story with the timeline of tenses that we've done in this video so go from the
past to the future with all of them if you can and try and get creative and if
you like this video and you want to see more videos like this where we use the
tenses and we put them into practice then do give this video a big thumbs up
and thank you very much for watching and we'll see you soon ta-ra for now ta-ra
see you in the future