Describe a difficult experience you had and listen to your classmates’ reactions.

In this exercise, we will use the preterite tense because the action started and ended at a definite time.

**Translation of the answer:**

Student A: When I was five years old, I had to go to my grandfather’s funeral. I didn’t want to go because the week before my turtle died, I knew I was going to be sad. I started crying and had a nightmare for two weeks.

Student B: How horrible!

Estudiante A: Cuando tenía cinco años tuve que ir al funeral de mi abuelo. No quería ir porque la semana anterior se murió mi tortuga y sabía que iba a estar triste. Empecé a llorar y tuve pesadilla durante dos semanas.

Estudiante B: ¡Qué horrible!