Embarrassed moments

Sometimes funny things happen to us, let me tell you a little about my experience:

It happened something similar to me as in the picture below. Last year I won first place in a school contest, there were important people from school, the principle and his assitants, people from the local government so I had to dress up, I had never worn high heels in my life, my mother convinced me to do it, everytime I walked with them I looked like if I were drunk, I balanced from one side to other. I am that kind of girl who is always wearing casual clothes, jeans, t-shirts and sneakers. That day I was nervous, the ceremony took place in a big auditorium, full of students and strangers, the time came when I was called to go up to the stage and receive my award but while I was coming down , my ankle twisted and I fell off the stairs, I was wearing a skirt so everybody could see my underware. That was the most embarrassing moment ever!

See the highlighted expressions:while I was coming down the stage, my ankle twisted and I fell off the stairs

this expression refers to a past continuous action, SOMETHING YOU CONTINUE DOING BUT IN AN SPECIFIC TIME IN PAST.



For example:
Just when I came home from school axhausted and starving, all my family was having dinner, so cool!

Now study a structure that will help you to understand more about embarrassing moments

past continuous structure and exercises

Read and watch more embarrassing moments from the next link. Choose the most insteresting or fun ones for you then  report and comment them to the class.

hilarious true ambarrassing stories

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What were you like when you were a small kid?

I was really restless

I was very mischievous

I used to play jokes to my classmates all the time.

I had braces

I used to play with my dolls

My highs and lows

Lifetime line

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PAST TENSE

We use past tense to express an action or event that has completed a process or a cycle and for that reason we cannot repeat it anymore.

How does the past tense work?
Analyze this mind map and study the pats tense structure.

Past tense

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What does it belong to you?

To express possession is to express what we own, to refer what it belongs to us, for example:
When you ask:
Whose bag is this?
Possible answers if you are the ownwer:

It's mine

It belongs to me

It's my bag

What if a third person refers possession or something belongs to someone ( a person)

For example:

Whose dog is that? (Megan)

It`s Megan's

It's hers

It's her dog

It belongs to her.

That dog belongs to Megan

What do you do everyday?

To talk about routines, habits and general information is to talk about Present simple.

These are some chores we do as routines: make the bed, do the laundry, do the dishes, clean up the house.


I always help my mother to do some chores:

I always make my bed in the morning before going to school.

We do the dishes after having dinner.

My mom cleans up the house, she always keeps it shining.








To talk about habits is necessary to use the frequency adverbs: always, usually, often, sometimes, seldom/rarely/hardly ever and never.

We can also use some time expressions which refer a habit or a frequency of action
Here you have some examples.



I always do yoga on Sunday morning

Students usually do their homework at the computer

We often go to the cinema on Wednesday.

I sometimes listen to music on the radio.

My family and I hardly ever go on vacation in December.

My dad never gets late to work.

I take a bath everyday

From Monday to Friday we take Art lessons.

On tuesday evenings we join our reading club.


We also use present simple to talk about personal information related to:


likes or dislikes:


I like cars but I don't like to wash them

Present Continuous

What are you doing right now?
You know present continuous or progressive expresses what events or situations are happening in this very moment.
e.g. I'm watching tv now.

But there’s another use of this tense, future. We can use present continuous structure to refer to arranged plans, for example:

Next weekend, we are having a costumes party.