Mi carpeta del pasado, parte II - El imperfecto

Continuing on with the past tense folder developed by "Toys and Tricks for Teachers",
on the backside of the folder we began yesterday...
Title the top EL IMPERFECTO
WRITE ALL OF THE WORDS ON THIS SIDE IN GREEN (Remember: Green Light = On-GOing)
Underneath, in the upper left-hand corner write:
"Reglas"
(1) "Was/Were---ing" - What was happening? = Action in progress in the past.
(2) "Used to": Habitual actions, Repeated (but NOT given a specific number of times)= The way life "Used to be"; Open-ended actions; Incompleted actions
(3) "While" (Mientras) - 2 simultaneous actions
(4)TIME, AGE, DESCRIPTIONS & BACKGROUND circumstances - painting a "word picture"
(5) The ACTIVITY going on BEFORE it gets interrupted
(Yo dormía cuando...)

Below the "Reglas" write:
"Time expressions": Markers that imply the imperfecto
"Used to"...
1. Todos los días
2. Siempre
3. A menudo
4. Cada día
5. Los lunes (On Mondays...)
6. De vez en cuando
7. Muchas veces
"While" (was/were--ing)
1. Mientras
2. Cuando - ONLY when it is interchangeable for "mientras" - When I was --ing,

Draw a wavy "time line" diagonally from the lower left corner up to the upper right corner. This will serve as an "open-ended past actions timeline"
Below it, fill-in boxes of script with things like:
(1) Cuando yo era niña tenía un gatito que se llamaba Carlitos.
(2) Cuando yo tenía 5 años, yo vivía en Nueva York.
(3) Mi mejor amiga se llamaba Jenny y ella era pelirroja.
Now create a break of space for new blocks of script for examples of background descriptions:
(4) Era de noche
(5) Hacía mucho frío
(6) Eran las diez de la noche

In the lower right-hand corner draw an outline of a HEART and a HUMAN HEAD.
Above these write:
ACCIONES DE...
and then OVER the heart write "El corazón - los sentimientos".
INSIDE of the heart write the verbs: Querer/Amar, Temer, Esperar
OVER the head write "La cabeza/la mente - las actitudes"
INSIDE of the head write the verbs: Pensar, creer, considerar.