Talking About Your Accomplishments in English

it's rolling hi everybody and welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is alicia and in this week's live lesson we are going to talk about how to talk about your accomplishments we are going to practice three grammar points you can use to do this simple past tense present perfect tense and past perfect tense so i hope that you will be able to practice some grammar of course uh and also hi everybody and welcome back to our weekly live streams my name is alicia we're going to talk about um of course some vocabulary that you can use some grammar points uh that are important but i hope that you can also send your example sentences in the chat if you are watching live and as a comment if you're watching later so uh we'll begin in just a couple minutes we'll give everyone a chance to join us live so uh as you join please do make sure to hit the like button and share this video so that other people can find today's lesson that would be super super cool as always a couple of very very 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welcome okay everyone's here great so let's look at our lesson flow for the day if you missed it today we're going to talk about three grammar points we're going to talk about three grammar points you can use to express your accomplishments so accomplishments means the things that you did your achievements i wanted to end this year on a positive feeling so we're going to practice simple past tense present perfect tense and past perfect tense we can use all of these tenses to talk about these things and of course it's not just the end of the year you can use this grammar for example in a job interview or a school interview to talk about your past so if you want to take a screenshot here is your first chance today we're going to practice past tense uh present perfect tense and finally past perfect tense so you can send your example sentences in the chat or in a comment uh and we can i'll try to check live um but i may not be able to get to yours there are a lot of comments coming from two places at the same time so okay let's get started then everything is ready we're going to begin today with past tense look let's look at how we talk about our accomplishments with past tense grammar simple past tense grammar okay so i have a basic pattern here uh we'll practice and then we're going to talk about how to change the pattern to make some different sentences so first let's begin here with this one okay so first uh right here is time period plus i and then a past tense verb phrase this means you need to choose a verb in simple past tense so for example the verb eat becomes ate in simple past tense time period means we express uh the point in time or maybe the length of time in which this action happened so i'll show some examples in just a moment key point in red here we use past tense for finished actions this is different from present perfect tense for example which we use to express like continuing actions yeah so time period i past tense verb phrase okay for example this year i learned how to cook this year i learned how to cook okay here's my time period so this year that means in 2020 in this case okay and then oh we have a new member on youtube welcome new member on youtube fantastic so this year 2020 i learned right here i learned edie this is the simple past tense form of learn to learn i learned how to cook so i have this phrase here i learned how to something something something you can change this verb of course to reflect a different hobby or a different interest you have so this is a very common one this year i learned how to verb this verb this right here this two cook do not change this to past tense sometimes i see learners say like this year i learned how to cooked no not correct only this verb needs past tense this year i learned how to cook also another question many learners ask is can i use study here this year i studied how to cook for example it's like there's no communication problem but it sounds strange learned sounds like you completed something here so like uh you studied many different topics and now you have knowledge enough knowledge to do something studied if you use study here it's like you practiced a little bit and maybe you can do it a little bit this one sounds like you finished like you have a level of knowledge now yeah okay uh i'm looking for your questions oh uh khanwajit uh on youtube says in 2019 i started learning french very cool very cool okay socra says i learned how to design very nice oh i want i'm i'm studying how to design now a little better too aj gabriel says can we say this month i start learning english very close this month i started past tense i started learning english okay so please use a past tense verb past tense verb phrase let's look at another example here today i wrote an article for a magazine today i wrote an article for a magazine here's my time period so when did the action happen today so today i wrote right here is my past tense verb yeah to write so write is simple present tense the infinitive form wrote is the past tense form today i wrote an article for a magazine this is my accomplishment my achievement for today ooh cassandra says uh in on facebook says in 2020 i passed the nclex was that a test and exam congratulations sounds exciting okay uh bruno says this year i learned i learned how to speak english this year i learned how to speak english okay great nice examples everybody okay another example last week last week i gave a presentation in an online conference last week i gave a presentation in an online conference here's my point in time or the time period when did the action happen last week i gave so we use the expression to give a presentation to give a presentation so this verb changes give in present tense becomes gave in past tense last week i gave a presentation in an online conference eugenia on youtube says can i say i had write an article no that is incorrect you maybe you could say i had written an article we'll cover that grammar in point three today all right uh someone on facebook i'm sorry i can't read your name i apologize i teached my brother how to use facebook careful teach teach the verb to teach in past tense is taught t-a-u-g-h-t i taught my brother how to use facebook okay uh someone very nicely kirill on facebook says these lectures are awesome basic but why not great yeah many so many people can practice and pick something up okay great let's look at a couple notes here now uh these notes if the time period is clear you can omit it you don't have to say for example today or last week if that's already clear so for example at the end of the day like your family comes home or your partner comes home whatever you could say i made dinner so it's clear i made dinner happened today at the end of the day not i made dinner last week but today so if it's clear you don't have to say tonight i made dinner of course you can but you don't always have to another point uh to talk about someone else's accomplishment for example you want to talk about your ch like your children's accomplishment or maybe a colleague a co-worker your team whatever to do that just change the subject right here so change this i to my son or my daughter or our team or he or she just change this easy right so for example he started a company this year he started a company this year last point here you can see i put this year at the end instead of here this year he started a company if you want to emphasize this a little bit more you can put the time period at the end of the sentence yeah okay so this is our first grammar point for today how to use a past tense to express our accomplishments or our achievements okay all right someone says yesterday i ate a banana okay is that is that an accomplishment for you maybe so maybe if you were sick for example okay so we'll finish past tense there let's take a short break and then we'll go to present perfect tense everyone's favorite grammar point perfect 10. okay i'm going to show you today's lesson boards again so if you want to take a screenshot get ready i'll show you now okay so we just practiced past tense now we're going to practice present perfect tense how we use present perfect tense and present perfect continuous to express our accomplishments also if you missed it earlier please do please make sure to like this video give it a thumbs up it helps other people find the lesson and share too if you're enjoying this please share this lesson as well and then many people can practice with us okay uh also free stuff if you missed it earlier too there is free stuff from the link below the video these free pdf cheat sheets you can see this banner right here you can download vocabulary phrases and questions to practice you can print them out or put them on your phone put them on your refrigerator or your desk or something to practice some vocabulary there are many topics so we're talking about cooking a bit here's one so you can choose oops that's the back side you can choose one that is interesting to you maybe this one hotels are a little tricky right now the family and relatives very important for this time of year i think okay uh with that let's go to part two um let's go to past perfect oh no sorry present perfect someone said can i show the screen again yes i will show it a couple more times later so please don't be worried okay let's go to uh the next part present perfect tense everybody loves present perfect right okay let's take a look at how to use present perfect tense to express our accomplishments first let's review what is present perfect tense what does it look like we use i have plus the past participle form of a verb so i'm not going to cover a list of past participle verbs you can google this very easily yeah we have this pattern to make the basic present perfect i have learned or i have studied or i have eaten for example and we have this pattern which makes the present perfect continuous form i have been ing verb form that continuous verb form i have been ing verb for length of time for three years for 10 minutes for eight days or since with a point in time so since yesterday or since last year and so on so what do we use these for in red here we use present perfect tense for actions that started in the past and continue to the present or the effects of the action like affect the present so the action the past action it affects the present affects what's happening now and many people ask like what's the difference between these two so when we want to express just life experience for example travel experience or food you ate something like that but when you experience it isn't so important we use this for example i have been to france or i have eaten pad thai we don't care when we just express the experience this action i'm sorry this grammar point expresses an action that started and is continuing and we want to emphasize that the action continues so let's take a look at a few examples of this so here's a very common one we can use i've finished my homework i've finished my homework here i've this is the reduced form of i have yeah i have we make it shorter with i've i've i've finished my homework so when did i finish my homework not important just sometime before so i've finished my homework yay so uh if you are a student you can use this when your parent or someone asks you about your homework progress okay oh we have new member welcome vicente rodriguez very cool okay so i've finished my homework finished is the past participle form of the verb finish i've finished my homework okay uh i'm looking for your question uh hironi says i have been playing netball since 2005. what is netball i don't know what nepal is i have to google that later all right uh next one let's look at a continuous example now here i've been working on a small project for a few weeks i'm gonna share it soon i've been working on a small project for a few weeks i'm gonna share it soon here we have again this i have that's reduced to i've i've yeah this pattern right here i have been invert i have been working on so working on this preposition don't forget this on here you need this on i've been working on a small project for a few weeks so this part tells us how long the action has continued for so three weeks is the time period so far so it's going to continue it's not quite finished that's what this tells us then they say i'm gonna which is the reduced casual form of going to i'm gonna share it soon i'm gonna share it soon so this is an expression you can use if you started working on something and you continued working on it it's not quite finished it's almost finished very close and you are planning to share it you can express that with this i've been working on something so a small project or your project whatever i've been working on this thing for a few weeks or since 2015 whatever i'm gonna share it soon okay um i'm looking for your questions and your examples what is the difference between two roles in present perfect i'm not sure what two roles mean can you give me an example maybe the person asking that question on facebook okay uh matthew says i have been waiting for english class yeah cool so i've been waiting for english class all week for example very nice very nice okay um let's continue to the next example here i want to talk about this expression this example sentence starts with so far this year so far this year okay i've learned 500 new vocabulary words so what is happening here right here i've learned this is the basic present perfect form i have learned yeah i've learned so i've learned 500 new vocabulary words this part right here this is very very useful so far this year so far that means until this point this day in 2020 or whatever year this is my progress so far this year i've learned 500 new vocabulary words so if we do not use this if we just say this sentence i've learned 500 new vocabulary words it's like saying in my life right or we don't know the time the time frame the time period this shows us in this time period of this year up to this point this year i've learned 500 new vocabulary words you could say this year if you want if you include so far though it sounds like you're going to continue yeah that's the difference those are those little little choices you can make to increase like the the depth of what you're saying okay uh nalki says so far this year i've learned 1 000 new russian vocabulary words very nice very nice example sentence okay uh anwar on facebook says i have been writing the story of my life and i'm gonna share it soon that's intense nice great example sentence okay um aj says i've been working on my homework project for a few days a few days don't forget that s at the end there nice example sentence alan says i've been working at home for 11 months great example yeah i know many people are working at home most of the time these days okay um vac nerc has a great question alicia why not i finished my homework actually that's correct too you can say i finished i finished my homework a past tense example it's up to you do you want to communicate uh that the action is finished or do you want to communicate a slightly different feeling of some action in the past that affects the present so like uh it's up to you in that case sometimes both are totally fine that's an example of it that is also okay to use uh okay good i think that looks pretty good um uh okay let's go to the next example sentence last one i've been writing a book since the beginning of the year i've been writing a book since the beginning of the year in this sentence i used since since so remember when we use since we have to follow it with a point in time we cannot use a length of time this the beginning of the year it not it doesn't mean january 1st but about about the beginning of the year so you can use since as well so i used four here but don't forget you can use since too all right so this is how we can use present perfect tense to express our accomplishments and as we practiced with simple past tense to change the subject if you want to talk about someone else in your life you're one of your kids or your partner your co-worker just change the subject so he or she or my child whatever please note however if you want to use he or she or maybe it as the subject your helping verb has to change so he has been studying or she has been working and so on so this verb this helping verb have changes to has i have many videos about present perfect tense on our youtube channel you can check those for some more information uh someone says fati says what tense do we use after since well there's not this part is there's not a tense it's just uh we're just talking about a point in time so since the beginning of the year like think of this as a noun phrase like uh since yesterday or since october yeah so the beginning of the year is like a noun phrase yeah okay uh i have to stop there so we'll go to the last part now uh about past perfect tense some of you are asking some questions that i answered a few minutes ago so you can check the live stream after uh it ends and i hope the question will be answered there all right i'm going to show you the lesson boards again if you want to take a screenshot get ready here they come all right so we talked about past tense at the beginning of the lesson now uh we just finished present perfect tense now we're going to talk about past perfect tense this is the next thing to look at uh the trickiest one the challenging one so uh i hope it's good if you missed it quick reminder please make sure to like this video give it a little thumbs up hit the thumbs up button and share this video so other people can find today's lesson that would be very helpful for us also if you missed it too i talked about the free pdfs that you can download from the link below the video video if you're watching on youtube or above the video if you're watching on facebook these have a cab there's some questions uh and some things you can use uh this is the family and relatives pedia there's some expressions for the first time you meet someone's family too so you can check these kinds of things there are so many of these so you can choose a topic that's interesting or helpful for you uh and practice your vocabulary so you can choose a couple different topics this one's sports i think there's probably like 25 maybe they're all free so check them out i hope it is helpful for your vocabulary studies all right let's go to the last part of today's lesson present no sorry past perfect tense past perfect tense let's get to it okay so past perfect tense to express your accomplishments this is something this is a grammar point you can use uh on a resume so for example when you apply for a job or when you go to a job interview this is a grammar point you might use so first let's look at how we make it and then let's look at how it's different from present perfect tense i get a lot of questions about this grammar point so past perfect tense here key point i had past participle verb and to make past perfect continuous it's i had been and the ing verb so just now in part two of today's lesson we practiced present perfect tense that uses i have past participle verb i have been this verb this helping verb here changes so i had i had we need to use this so in red in red color here what does this do why do we need this grammar point we use past perfect tense to express a continuing past action and its relationship to a different past action or condition so what does that mean well okay so i think it's a little easier to imagine here so this is a timeline here's the past and here the star is now so our lesson now you're watching and the future so in blue here this continuing action blue the squiggly blue marks the continuing action red is another just simple past action so it's an action or a condition or a point in time in the past we use past perfect tense to express this relationship so usually we want to express some action words continuing in the past and there was a key past action or past point that has a connection to that action this sounds very complicated so let's look at an example so you can see what's going on and how you can use it for example i had been working freelance for two years when i decided to start my own business so again i had been working freelance for two years when i decided to start my own business let's break this sentence down i had been working freelance so freelance means you don't have like one company or one employer you go to every day you work with many different clients or many different people i had been working freelance for two years this part is my past perfect continuous i had been working this is my blue action yeah it's continuing in this case for two years for two years i know that here it had been continuing for two years when so this when expresses the point when something something changes or some past action happened in this case i decided to start my own business i decided to start my own business so these two actions are connected we show that here with this grammar point past perfect we connect it we show that point of change or interruption with when and this part i decided to start my own business is in simple past tense because this action was a one-time action it finished yeah so we do not use past perfect for part this this part of the sentence only for the continuing action okay so you can try to send an example in the chat i will try to check while i show you the next example sentence here here's an everyday example that you can use i had finished making dinner by the time my roommate got home i had finished making dinner by the time my roommate got home so here i had finished making dinner this expresses my action my past action something i was doing in the past here however i'm using by the time not when what's the difference between by the time and when here when expresses exactly exactly the point this action the second action happened by the time however maybe if you study the preposition by you know we use it to express a deadline yeah by the time means okay by the time my roommate got home so imagine the roommate got home at this this point here by the time expresses some time before this sometime before this that's what it's expressing so not exactly but sometime before that that's what by the time expresses and again got this is a past tense by the time my roommate got home or you could say by the time my roommate arrived at home also okay okay um all right someone says a pocket right says i had watched many movies at the cinema when the pandemic began i'd watched many movies at the cinema when the pandemic began i think i would say i i think i would probably use a simple past tense there like i i watched a lot of movies at the cinema before the pandemic maybe i think i would probably use because it's like the emphasis here is some continuing action that was like interrupted or changed maybe yeah or maybe you could say like uh i had been going to the cinema every week for many years uh but then the pandemic started so maybe something like that would be a little bit more natural if you want to express a continuing action like a regular habit of going to the movie theater um can we say had you been learning english in a question yes as a part of a question like had you been learning or maybe like had you been studying english at that time maybe it kind of it depends a little on the situation yeah okay um let's go to the last one because i'm late so last example sentence for this part here when i graduated from college i had already been working for a year when i graduated from college i had already been working for a year in this example sentence the past tense action comes first when i graduated from college that's this point this part i had already been working so already communicates some action started some action started so i didn't start after i graduated from college i started before i want to emphasize that i use already i had already been working for a year so we use this grammar point to show the relationship between two past actions uh one continuing and one that kind of makes a change or interrupts something yeah so if uh this is just a quick introduction to how we use past perfect to express our accomplishments uh especially for like job and school interviews if you want to know more about these grammar points there are some videos on the channel i'll put some links in the youtube description so you can check and review some more information about this grammar because i know this one especially this one is challenging to use to get used to using okay all right i'm late so we'll finish there for today i'll show you uh today's board so you can take a picture take a picture take a screenshot here we go sorry sorry sorry okay here are today's lesson boards we talked about past tense present perfect tense and past perfect tense to talk about your accomplishments so you can use these for everyday uh activities like making dinner and you can use them for job and school interviews uh and so on so i hope that you have a chance to practice these and of course this year it's a good chance to think about what you accomplished what you achieved this year okay so we'll finish there for today thanks for your great questions of course i'll be back next week as always next week's lesson is oops just a second there uh next week's lesson is going to be about uh new year's expressions oh my gosh i have the wrong date let me fix the date real quick next week i'm going to talk about holiday expressions can you believe it's already the end of the year oh my gosh that's so crazy to me that's december 23rd oh my gosh december 23rd we're almost to the end of the year i think uh will be that might be our last lesson actually uh for the year and i will confirm that with you before we uh get everything rolling expressions for the holidays and the new year sorry guys i put the wrong date in there okay so this will be next week's lesson topic right here december 23rd 10 p.m eastern standard time new york city time you can google it or set a notification on youtube or facebook so i'm going to talk about expressions for the holidays and the new year so things that you can say uh at the end of 2020 quite a year quite a year for sure so please join me again next time to talk about these sorts of things okay so i'll finish there for today uh thank you as always to everybody who joined us this week that was super fun for your great example sentences awesome questions thank you very much oh and thank you for liking the video and sharing the video we had lots of people join us this time uh if you haven't already of course please don't forget to check out the free stuff from the link below the video and above the video also i'll 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