Time Expressions

As we reviewed some classes ago, the simple past uses different time expressions. Below you can see an image with most of those expressions. 


                               

Most of them either use ago or last, but we can also talk about a specific year or day from the past. 

Last year, you weren't in level 2. 

They went to the movies a month ago. 

In 1997, I was in first grade of elementary school and most of you were babies. 

As you can see time expressions are really useful when making reference to a past event. 

Let's do some practice with exercise 2a in page 50.