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hi
james from english
i was just reading the paper today
i got this paper
three days ago
today's sunday
what day was that
well today we're going to learn to talk
about time
if you're an advanced student you might
think this is a bit
of a slower lesson or you may know this
that's fine please watch maybe you'll
learn something
about sentence structure in english when
we talk about time
if you're a new student this will be
very helpful for you to learn how to
speak about time okay
let's go to the board
this is a thomas turtle lesson which
means it's a tutorial
in that case it means we will go over
the lesson and i will teach you how to
do this and i want you to do this at
home so a good thing for you to do is
copy this out i know it might take a
second or two don't worry your computer
won't go anywhere and i'm not going
anywhere just press pause
and then
write out this
all right so i write this out
okay so you've had a couple seconds
you've written it out
let's do it
now
in english we talk about time things
happened
happen in the future things have
happened in the past and we need to
speak about it accurately what i mean by
accurately is we need to be exact i need
to know what you mean
a lot of students because different
languages have this in it say before
they talk about the past and they say
before i do this two months before i was
there before
in english we don't use before like that
we use the word
a go
for us a go means the past two days ago
three months ago
and that means the past
in the future we often use from now
and that means from this position we
will keep moving that means this is now
and we'll go from now into the future
if you look here i have from now and i
have f and f to help remind you f means
future from now two days from now will
be tuesday today is sunday yeah okay now
this is nice but then you say why do we
doing this chart well i'm going to help
you so you can speak
very very fluently to an english person
and they will know exactly what you mean
okay here are the days of the week you
will notice how we move
when we say the past we go backwards so
if we're at sunday we would go saturday
friday thursday wednesday tuesday monday
to the past and that is how we count
similar to
5 4 three two one
in the future we go forward so monday
tuesday wednesday thursday friday
future goes forward so again another f
word forward and
i'm going to give you something to help
you as well just to help you with the
days
tuesday if you want to remember the
difference between tuesday and thursday
just think tuesday has a sound of 2
which is the second day of the week
you're welcome all right so let's go
back to the board i said today i said if
today is
okay this
formula can be used for months as well
you can talk about days or months so if
we say if today is
sunday
and we want to talk about the future
let's say
three days
okay three days we would say three days
we said future well we look future means
to go down in time we notice future
means from now so then we have to say
either this one or that one what should
we use
i want future remember a future is from
now so then i would say
from
now
and i would go
one two three it would be wednesday we
don't talk about sunday this is today
it's now we go future one two three
three days from now
and we have to choose do we say it was
wednesday or it will be future wednesday
we look for the future and we say it
will be
sorry awareness day
now look at the board
if today is sunday
three days from now it will be wednesday
did you see how we did that
let's try another example
this time i won't tell you the date i
will put in some information i want you
to figure out what the answer will be
we have a problem
we know what the new day is
and we know how many days but we don't
know what the first day is
let's go to the board
we said saturday
we don't count this
right three days from now so we'd have
to go back one two three
thursday
friday wednesday
wednesday thursday friday saturday would
be the day
so if today is
wednesday three days from now will be
saturday do you like that so we can work
either from the day or from the future
that was awkward though don't you think
that was difficult starting a saturday
to find out wednesday there must be a
better way of doing this i think we have
a better way
what if we did this
instead of talking about the final day
why don't we use the word a go
a go means the past so we can talk in
the present about the past
i like it too it makes life much easier
okay
if today is
saturday
three days ago what was it we go back
today's saturday thursday friday
wednesday
it's the same information but it's
easier to say
because we can start with where we are
and know where we will be
do you like that we've gone from future
which was from now to ago which is the
past let's do another one for the past
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i like saturday it's a holiday in canada
we don't have to go to work
so i'm staying on saturday and i'll talk
about the past
okay
this is a tricky one be careful
if today is saturday
seven days ago
do we say it will be or it was
it was
the answer is right here make sure you
pay attention look the answer is here we
say for the past so seven days ago it
was
well there are only seven days in the
week
so when we say it was seven
seven days ago it was saturday in canada
or america or england they would never
say this
we have an easier way of saying it we
just say
uh
week
ago
when we say a week ago we are saying
this day was the same day seven days ago
no one would actually say seven days ago
blah blah blah blah they would say one
week ago i was doing this a week ago
this happened and we all know that we're
talking about the same day seven days
ago
good easy
great well what i would like you to do
is practice i know you wrote this out
and i will erase it again you can take a
look you can practice at home by
yourself or practice with a friend
that's a great way to learn english you
will give them the day and ask them
in two days in three days in five days
and they can figure out
if you say a go if in the past or from
now in the future
now some of you are advanced students
so if you're an advanced student i'm
going to teach you one more form i will
put it at the end
okay
we can change this whole thing
when we want to talk about the future
you can also do this one
you can say
in in three days you don't have to say
this part you would say this part in
three days it will be and that would be
the future so in can replace and it will
be the
future give that a try once you've
learned a go and from now when you're
ready
try in for the future but you must put
in in the first place in the first part
of the sentence
that would go like this if this is
saturday
in three days it will be we go to the
future
tuesday
okay have a good day give it a try hope
you enjoyed the lesson come on back for
thomas the turtle where is he
thomas the turtle
now looking good so good these days i'm
sure he'll look better i'll give him a
hair piece i'll give him some hair
now he's thomas the handsome turtle
anyway i hope you enjoyed this lesson
come back we'll have other lessons and
tutorial lessons to help you okay
make sure you practice at home
oh and before i go of course
this may be sunday monday or tuesday
wherever you are but you'll still need
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have a good day