LEARN ENGLISH: How to talk about people & events in the past

How do you talk about people and events in your past? I’ll show you three ways to do that, using “to be”, “would”, and “used to”. You’ll learn how these each are used in English in different situations or to convey a particular meaning or mood. You’ll also learn both polite and informal ways to say that someone died: “pass away”, “no longer with us”, “croaked”, “dropped dead”, and more. Life has its ups and downs. It’s good to have the words to describe those times. After the lesson, take the quiz at www.engvid.com/learn-english-...
More of my videos about past tense in English:
English for Beginners: "TO BE" in Past Tense • English for Beginners:...
Simple Past Negative (English Tenses for Beginners) • Simple Past Negative (...
In this video:
0:00 Talking about people in the past tense
1:06 "He was such a..."
1:57 "We would always..."
3:27 "She was an..."
5:25 "We used to..."
7:02 Polite ways to say someone is dead

[@engvidRonnie]

Thanks for watching, everyone! If you want to learn more about past tense in English, check out these videos:
English for Beginners: "TO BE" in Past Tense ua-cam.com/video/lLqS8PK_pYs/v-deo.html
Simple Past Negative (English Tenses for Beginners) ua-cam.com/video/1UFbbr84-VE/v-deo.html

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Крякнул (quacked), склеил ласты (glued flippers), отбросил коньки (cast off skates), сыграл в ящик (played in a box), зажмурился (squint).
And may be you'll give us a lesson about punctuation, because there are some differences in this topic between Russian and English and it would be cool to watch your lesson about that.

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She kicked the bucket because she accomplished her bucket list and it’s time to kick that bucket

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What about when they say there was a decease?
So many to remember and use hehe

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Hi Ronnie. Using "would" to talk about a past habit seems rather odd for me. I don't remember being taught that at school when I was young, they made us use "used to"

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In Russian language we have similar expression: "Glued the Fins" (like swimming fins glued together). Same meaning to "Kicked the Bucket".

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Склеил ласты....😊And also we could say He is "крякнул"😊

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And also "отбросить коньки")

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I didn't understand the ending, What was on the blackboard? who is Trevor? 🤔🤔

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Trevor seems to be her pet... There was nothing on the lesson about him, she just mentioned it at the end.

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Yeah! He's the keeper of the graveyard! She was joking.... Probably to smooth the lesson!

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Away from the video content , but ... remember that it's not nice to talk about people badly when they are abscent ...backbiting is not good anyway..

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Teacher! Obviously it's the past tens

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What's the past tense of your name?

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then how do we talk about thing we don't do any more. it's just used to ?

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Can't we just say that sentence at 3:04 in the past simple? "We always went to the park..."

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Oh. Did she. Please elaborate.