Lesson 1 · 3 skills
Past perfect
Build había plus a past participle and place one completed action before another past event.
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Past perfect
Build había plus a past participle and place one completed action before another past event.
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Unit 1: Tell richer past stories
Place events before, during, and after one another while keeping narrative background clear.
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Lesson 2 · 3 skills
Past progressive
Use imperfect estar plus a gerund for an action that was in progress around a past moment.
Lesson 3 · 3 skills
Past storytelling
Combine completed events with descriptions, habits, and ongoing background to build a coherent story.
Lesson 4 · 3 skills
Sequence past events
Order a story with primero, mientras, de repente, después, al final, and tense choices that show event relationships.
Extra practice
Mixed sentence building
Build ten Spanish sentences using grammar from across B1.