CBS 2.20 | End-of-unit test
In this week’s episode we reach episode 20 and Mark will be testing Kara on everything she’s learned so far about verbs and adjectives in the past few lessons of the course. Please note that lesson 20...
16 Aug 201022min
CBS 2.19 | Describing the past
This week we’re continuing to look at the imperfect tense. We’ll go through the conjugation of -ar, -er and -ir verbs and talk about how the imperfect tense is used to describe things in the past. Ple...
6 Aug 201018min
CBS 2.18 | Talking more about the past - the imperfect tense
In this week’s lesson we introduce the imperfect tense and consider in what situations this tense is used. We’ll also learn the conjugation of -ar verbs in the imperfect tense. Please note that lesson...
27 Jul 201016min
CBS 2.17 | Identity quiz
It’s time to put into practice what you’ve been learning about the preterite tense. In this week’s episode Mark challenges Kara to an identity quiz using lots of preterite tenses to describe the lives...
20 Jul 201019min
CBS 2.16 | Spelling changes in the preterite tense
More preterite tenses this week: it’s now time to look at reflexive verbs and verbs which have spelling changes ('radical-changing verbs') in the preterite tense. Please note that lesson 16 of Season ...
12 Jul 201024min
CBS 2.15 | Preterite tense of irregular verbs
We’ll be continuing our study of the preterite tense in this week’s lesson and it’s time to take a look at some irregular verbs: hacer, ir, ver and dar in the preterite, so that you can talk about wha...
5 Jul 201023min
CBS 2.14 | Preterite tense of -ir and -ar verbs
This week’s episode of Coffee Break Spanish looks further at the preterite tense which is used to relate events in the past. Listeners should be aware that this episode was originally released in Febr...
30 Jun 201018min
CBS 2.13 | Introducing the preterite tense
In episode 13 of Coffee Break Spanish we introduce the preterite tense which is used to talk about things in the past. Please note that lesson 13 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 213 of Coff...
21 Jun 201017min
