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How was the weekend?

Lets finish the questions remaining from The Breakfast Club movie.
What is your opinion on their teacher, Richard Dick Vernon? Do you think he
likes teaching?
o He said he cant sleep at night thinking the future of the country is on the
hands of those kids. Do you worry about this too? Seeing how Spains
youth is right now, do you worry about its future too?
o As a future teacher, which principles are the most important for you to
teach your students? Sharing, trusting, empathizing?
o If we were to redo The Breakfast Club nowadays, what modern teenage
stereotypes would you put in the film?
o Why are the students so disappointed with the behavior of their parents
and the teacher in the movie? Have you ever felt this way? How teens
perceive adults? How are they correct? How are they wrong?
Last week we watched the Breakfast Club. Its an 80s classic. Have you watched
many movies from that time? Which one is your favorite?/Why not?
Which is your current favorite movie?

Narrative tenses: describing specific incidents in the past

When we describe specific incidents in the past, we use narrative tenses: past
simple, past continuous, and past perfect simple or continuous.
Use the past simple to talk about the main actions in a story (We went to bed
I woke up I screamed).
Use the past continuous to set the scene (We were sleeping in my parents
bedroom) and to describe actions in progress in the past (Somebody was
standing at the end of my bed).
Use the past perfect and the past perfect continuous to talk about the earlier
past, like things which happened before the main events (My father had gone
away I had been reading a story).

Used to and would: describing repeated actions in the past

We often used to + infinitive as an alternative to the past simple to talk about

things that we did repeatedly in the past.
o We can also use used to + infinitive to talk about situations or states
which have changed, like: I used to have much longer hair when I was
younger.
We also use would + infinitive as an alternative to used to to talk about things
that we did repeatedly in the past.
o However, we dont use would with stative verbs, i.e. to talk about
situations or states which have changed. Therefore, I would have much
longer hair when I was younger is incorrect.

We can also use always + past continuous for things that happened repeatedly,
especially when they are irritating habits.