Uh huh.

All right, James, in English.

I was just reading the paper today.

I got this paper three days ago today.

Sunday?

What day was that?

Well, today we're going to learn to talk about time.

If you're in advanced students, you might think this is a bit of a slower lesson, or you may know this.

That's fine.

Please watch.

Maybe you'll learn something about sentence structure in English when we talk about time.

If you're a new student, this will be very helpful for you to learn how to speak about time.

Okay, let's go to the board.

This is a Thomas turtle lesson, which means is a tutorial.

In that case, it means we will go over the lesson, and I will teach you how to do this.

And I want you to do this at home.

So a good thing for you to do is copy this out.

I know it might take a second or two.

Don't worry.

Your computer won't go anywhere, and I'm not going anywhere.

Just press pause and then right out this.

All right, So I write this out.

Okay, So you've had a couple of seconds.

He written it out.

Let's do it now.

In English, we talk about time.

Things happened, has happened in the future.

Things have happened in the past and we need to speak about it accurately.

What I mean by accurately is we need to be exact.

I need to know what you mean.

Ah, lot of students because different languages have this in it.

Say before they talk about the post and they say before I do this two months before I was there before, in English we don't use before like that.

We use the word ago for us ago means the past two days ago, three months ago.

And that means the past in the future we often use from now.

That means from this position we will keep moving.

That means this is now and we'll go from now into the future.

If you look here, I have.

From now on, I have f and F to help remind you f means future from now.

Two days from now will be Tuesday.

Today is Sunday.

Yeah.

Okay.

Now this is nice.

But then you say, Why do we doing this chart?

Well, I'm going to help you.

So you can speak very, very fluently toe in English person and they will know exactly what you mean.

Okay, here are the days of the week.

You will notice how we move when we say the past, we go backwards.

So if we're at Sunday, we would go Saturday, Friday, Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Monday to the past.

And that is how we count.

Similar to 54321 In the future.

We go forward.

So Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, future goes forward.

So again, another F word for word and future.

I'm going to give you something to help you as well.

Just to help you with the days Tuesday.

If you want to remember the difference between Tuesday and Thursday.

Just think Tuesday has that sound off to which is the second day of the week.

You're welcome.

All right.

So let's go back to the board.

I said today I said, if today is okay, this formula can be used for months as well.

You can talk about days or months.

So if we say if today is Sunday Yeah, and we want to talk about the future, let's say three days.

Okay.

Three days.

We would say Three days.

We said Future.

When we look future means to go down in time we notice future means from now.

So then we have to say either this one or that one.

Which should we use?

I want future.

Remember, a future is from now.

So then I would say from now and I would go 123 It would be Wednesday.

We don't talk about Sunday.

This is today.

It's now we go future.

123 Three days from now And we have to choose.

Do we say it Waas Wednesday?

Or it will be future at Wednesday We look for the future and we say it will be Yeah.

So I went this day.

Oh, yeah.

Now look at the board.

If today is Sunday, three days from now, it will be Wednesday.

Could you see how we did that?

Let's try another example this time.

I won't tell you the date I will put in some information.

I want you to figure out what the answer will be.

Yeah, mhm, right.

We have a problem.

We know what the new day is and we know how many days, but we don't know what the first day is.

Let's go to the board, we said Saturday.

We don't count this right three days from now, so we'd have to go back.

123 Thursday, Friday, Wednesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday would be the day.

So if today is Wednesday, three days from now will be Saturday.

If you like that, so we can work either from the day or from the future.

That was awkward, though, don't you think that was difficult starting at Saturday to find out Wednesday?

There must be a better way of doing this.

I think we have a better way.

What if we did this instead of talking about the final day?

Why don't we use the word ago ago?

Means the past so we can talk in the present about the past.

I like it, too.

Makes life much easier.

Okay, if today is mhm Saturday, three days ago, what was it?

We go back today, Saturday, Thursday, Friday, Wednesday.

It's the same information, but it's easier to say because we can start with where we are and know where we will be.

Do you like that?

We've gone from future, which was from now to ago, which is the past.

Let's do another one for the past.

I like Saturday.

It's a holiday in Canada.

We don't have to goto work.

So I'm staying on Saturday and I'll talk about the past.

Okay?

Uh huh.

This is a tricky one.

Be careful.

If today is Saturday, seven days ago Do we say it will be or it waas?

Yeah.

It waas the answers right here.

Make sure you pay attention.

Look, the answer is here.

We say for the past.

So seven days ago, it waas Uh huh.

Well, there are only seven days in the week.

So when we say it was 77 days ago, it was Saturday in Canada or America in England.

They would never say this.

We have an easier way of saying it.

We just say a week ago when we say a week ago were saying this day was the same day seven days ago, no one would actually say seven days ago.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah They would say, one week ago, I was doing this a week ago.

This happened on.

We all know that we're talking about the same day seven days ago.

Good easy.

Great.

Well, what I would like you to do is practice.

I know you wrote this out and I will erase it again.

You can take a look.

You can practice at home by yourself or practice with a friend.

That's a great way to learn English.

You will give them the day and ask them in two days in three days in five days.

And they can figure out if you say ago if the past or from now in the future.

Now, some of you are advanced students.

So if you're in Advanced Student, I'm going to teach you one more form.

I will put it at the end.

Okay.

We can change this whole thing when we want to talk about the future.

You can also do this one you could say in in three days.

You don't have to say this part.

You would say this part in three days it will be.

And that would be the future.

So in and replace, it will be the future.

Give that a try once you've learned ago.

And from now when you're ready, try in for the future that you must put in in the first place in the first part of the sentence.

That would go like this.

If this is Saturday in three days, it will be we go to the future Tuesday.

Okay.

Have a good day.

Give it a try.

Hope you enjoyed the lesson.

Come on back for Thomas the Turtle.

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Did you do?

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Not looking good.

So good these days.

I'm sure he'll look better.

I'll give him a hairpiece.

I'll give him some hair now he's told Mr Hansen.

Turtle.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this lesson.

Come back.

We'll have other lessons and tutorial lessons to help you.

Okay, make sure you practice at home.

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