What Happened & What Has HappenedA1 · Part 3 of 3
Modules
What Happened, Quickly
A1Core regular preterite sentence-building for narrated past events
Irregular Preterite Moves
A1Requires: What Happened, Quickly
Irregular preterite practice by combining patterns and reused sentence frames
Scenes, Habits, and Background
A1Requires: What Happened, Quickly, Irregular Preterite Moves
Background/imperfect storytelling that supports richer past scene narration
Recent Experiences
A1Requires: Irregular Preterite Moves, Scenes, Habits, and Background
Starter A2-style present-perfect framing for immediate personal anecdotes
Adding Detail
A1Requires: What Happened, Quickly
Adverbial precision for richer narrative and sentence variation
Quantities and Comparisons
A1Requires: Adding Detail
Foundation for evaluative comparison and amount-based expression
Connecting Clauses
A1Requires: Recent Experiences, Quantities and Comparisons
Connective architecture for coherent spoken narration
Tell Your Story
A1Requires: Connecting Clauses
End-to-end story production for preview-level fluency outcomes
About this course
A1-3 helps you move beyond the present and talk about what happened, what was happening, and what you have experienced. Instead of learning past tenses in isolation, you will practice choosing forms inside simple narratives.
What you'll practice
- Talk about completed past events with the preterite
- Describe habits, scenes, and background with the imperfect
- Use present perfect for recent experiences
- Add detail, quantity, and comparison to your stories
- Connect clauses into clearer spoken narratives
Related vocabulary
Use visual vocabulary practice to make descriptive storytelling feel more concrete, especially with emotions, appearance, and what people are wearing.
