In this exercise, we need to complete the sentences that describe how the situation was or how was the person when an event occurred, with the correct verb in the parenthesis, formatted in imperfect.
The sentence reads:
*”We ____ in the gym to watch the awards ceremony.”*

The uses of the imperfect are various, but all describe events in the past.
We use the imperfect tense to describe ongoing actions, repeated actions in the past, and to describe places or persons in the past. Also the imperfect is used when describing how the weather was at a certain point in the past, what date and time were and how old was someone in the past.

The subject of this sentence is *nosotros* (we). Therefore we will use the first-person plural imperfect form of *estar* (be), which is “estuvimos”.

estuvimos

In this exercise, we need to complete the sentences that describe how the situation was or how was the person when an event occurred, with the correct verb in the parenthesis, formatted in imperfect.
The sentence reads:
*”____ very cold when I walked to school.”*

The uses of the imperfect are various, but all describe events in the past.
We use the imperfect tense to describe ongoing actions, repeated actions in the past, and to describe places or persons in the past. Also the imperfect is used when describing how the weather was at a certain point in the past, what date and time were and how old was someone in the past.

Since the sentence is describing how the weather was, we will use the third-person singular imperfect form of *hacer* (do), which is “hacía”.

hacía

In this exercise, we need to complete the sentences that describe how the situation was or how was the person when an event occurred, with the correct verb in the parenthesis, formatted in imperfect.
The sentence reads:
*”Carlos__ ____ in the gym when his friends arrived.”*

The uses of the imperfect are various, but all describe events in the past.
We use the imperfect tense to describe ongoing actions, repeated actions in the past, and to describe places or persons in the past. Also the imperfect is used when describing how the weather was at a certain point in the past, what date and time were and how old was someone in the past.

The subject of the sentence is Carlos. Therefore, we will use the third-person singular imperfect form of *entrenarse* (train), which is “se entrenaba”.

se entrenaba

In this exercise, we need to complete the sentences that describe how the situation was or how was the person when an event occurred, with the correct verb in the parenthesis, formatted in imperfect.
The sentence reads:
*”____ nine o’clock when the contest started.”*

The uses of the imperfect are various, but all describe events in the past.
We use the imperfect tense to describe ongoing actions, repeated actions in the past, and to describe places or persons in the past. Also the imperfect is used when describing how the weather was at a certain point in the past, what date and time were and how old was someone in the past.

Since the sentence is describing what time it was (*las nueve*), we will use the third-person plural imperfect form of *ser* (be), which is “earn”.

Note that the verb *ser* (be) is one of three irregular verbs in the imperfect tense.

eran

In this exercise, we need to complete the sentences that describe how the situation was or how was the person when an event occurred, with the correct verb in the parenthesis, formatted in imperfect.
The sentence reads:
*”Nacho ____ five years when he started playing soccer.”*

The uses of the imperfect are various, but all describe events in the past.
We use the imperfect tense to describe ongoing actions, repeated actions in the past, and to describe places or persons in the past. Also the imperfect is used when describing how the weather was at a certain point in the past, what date and time were and how old was someone in the past.

Since the subject is Nacho, we will use the third-person singular imperfect form of *tener* (have), which is “tenía”.

tenía

In this exercise, we need to complete the sentences that describe how the situation was or how was the person when an event occurred, with the correct verb in the parenthesis, formatted in imperfect.
The sentence reads:
*”The girls ____ discouraged because they lost the game.”*

The uses of the imperfect are various, but all describe events in the past.
We use the imperfect tense to describe ongoing actions, repeated actions in the past, and to describe places or persons in the past. Also the imperfect is used when describing how the weather was at a certain point in the past, what date and time were and how old was someone in the past.

Since the subject is *las chicas* (the girls), we will use the third-person plural imperfect form of *estar* (be), which is “estaban”.

estaban