The past perfect and past simple tenses | Coffee Break English Podcast S4E08

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In This Video, You'll Learn:
✔️ How to form and use the Past Perfect tense correctly.
✔️ When to choose Past Simple vs Past Perfect.
✔️ How to say “had had” and why it’s actually correct!
✔️ Key vocabulary like background, patriotic, found, and legacy.
✔️ How to hear these tenses in context—with real examples from U.S. history.

With slow, clear English and engaging historical context, this lesson will boost your confidence using these important English tenses!

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:28 Text: The Founding Fathers
4:09 Vocabulary and Grammar
19:26 Text Again

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