Sometimes we want to talk about something we thought
would happen in the future at a point in the past.
We'll look at how to do this now.
To do this, we use past versions of future forms.
'Will' becomes 'would'.
Yesterday I said I would go to the park.
'Going to' becomes 'was going to'. Like this:
The last time I saw you,
you were going to start a new job. What's it like?
The present continuous becomes the past continuous.
Last week you were visiting your family
the day after I saw you. How did it go?
So to recap:
'will' becomes 'would',
'going to' becomes 'was going to'
and the present continuous
becomes the past continuous.
At the start,
I said we'd look at how to talk about the
future in the past. And now we have.
Bye!