EP092 Talking About a Past Event | Intermediate

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  Hello English learners, welcome back to EnglishPod.

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  My name is Marco.

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  And I'm Erika.

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  And today we have a very special lesson because we're going to be focusing a little bit more on grammar.

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  That's right.

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  We 're going to look today at the difference between past simple and past progressive

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  or sometimes called past continuous.

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  Exactly.

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  So we are going to take a look at these two structures which are a little bit confusing at times

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  and we 're going to be practicing today.

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  Take a look at vocabulary preview.

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  Vocabulary preview.

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  Well, this dialogue is all about telling a story in the past,

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  and we 're going to hear two words in the dialogue that we need to understand the meaning of.

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  So, the first one, ages.

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  Ages.

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  I haven't seen you in ages.

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  Okay, so if I tell you, I haven't seen you in ages.

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  Basically, you haven't seen me in a really long time.

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  Okay, so it's a way of exaggerating a little bit.

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