{"id":897,"date":"2018-05-30T09:47:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T01:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=897"},"modified":"2018-05-30T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T02:00:37","slug":"lesson-32-writing-about-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/english-learning\/lesson-32-writing-about-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 32 \u2013 Writing about the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-summary\">Summary<\/div>\n<div class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-aim\">Writing more accurately in past tenses<\/div>\n<div class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-desc\">\n<p>The topic of this lesson is past experiences. I had chance to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>review <strong>past simple<\/strong> and <strong>past continuous<\/strong> tenses used when telling a story<\/li>\n<li>focus on the use of<strong> &#8216;when&#8217;<\/strong> and <strong>&#8216;while&#8217;<\/strong> when telling a story<\/li>\n<li>look at the structure of a story including topic sentences and paragraphing<\/li>\n<li>write a paragraph describing a past experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n[Grammar]\n<blockquote><p>When + past Simple<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Example<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was listening to music <strong>when<\/strong> she <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">called<\/span> me<\/li>\n<li><strong>When<\/strong> my wife <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">came<\/span> home, I was cooking her dinner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>While + past Continous<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Example<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>While<\/strong> I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">was listening<\/span> to music<b>,<\/b>\u00a0she called me<\/li>\n<li>My wife came home<strong> while<\/strong> I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">was cooking<\/span> her dinner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n[Writing a story]\n<ol>\n<li>Topic sentence (When + What + Where)<\/li>\n<li>Description (What)<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion (Feeling + lessons learned)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<p>STAR method<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Situation,<\/li>\n<li>Task,<\/li>\n<li>Actions,<\/li>\n<li>Result<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-desc\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Writing more accurately in past tenses The topic of this lesson is past experiences. I had chance to review past simple and past continuous tenses used when telling a story focus on the use of &#8216;when&#8217; and &#8216;while&#8217; when telling a story look at the structure of a story including topic sentences and paragraphing<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/english-learning\/lesson-32-writing-about-the-past\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}