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Past Simple
The past simple is what in Dutch is called the verleden tijd
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This lesson contains 10 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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Past Simple
The past simple is what in Dutch is called the verleden tijd

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Past Simple
You use the past simple when something happened in the past and is finished


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Past Simple - Regular Verbs
After a regular verb you put '-ed'

I walk -> I walked
He walks -> He walked
They walk -> They walked

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Past Simple - Regular verbs

Spelling:
Als een werkwoord eindigt op een medeklinker + -y, dan verandert de -y in -ie:

  • I carry - I carried

Let op, er verandert niets als het werkwoord eindigt op klinker + -y:

  • I play - I played

Als een werkwoord eindigt op -e, dan komt er in de past simple alleen een -d achter:

  • I live - I lived

In de past simple wordt de laatste medeklinker verdubbeld als er één klinker voor staat:

  • I drop - I dropped

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Past Simple - Irregular verbs
Some verbs in English are irregular, this means that in the past tense they don't get '-ed' at the end, but have their own form.

To write -> wrote; I wrote her a letter last week
to go -> went; He went to Italy last year
to make -> made: They made a very nice meal two days ago

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Past Simple - Irregular verbs
There are no rules for the irregular verbs, you just have to learn them by heart

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Past Simple - Questions/negations
Questions -> Did + entire verb
Did you walk to school yesterday?

Negations -> didn't + entire verb
You didn't walk to school yesterday.

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Past Simple - Signal word
In Dutch signal words are called 'signaal woorden'  

These word help you to see if something happened in the past
  • yesterday
  • last week
  • ten minutes ago
  • in 2007

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My sister .......... (play) the guitar last year.

Slide 9 - Open question

They ....... (go) home after school yesterday.

Slide 10 - Open question