Unit 1.4 - Tenses

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4,5

Tenses

Revision of all the tenses

Today

Differentiation

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Choose wisely. Take responsibility of your own learning process.

- Activating prior knowledge

- Individual Work

- Grammar explanation on all the tenses

Name as many different tenses as you can think of. (E.g. present simple)

Make a sentence using the present continuous ("to be + verb + ing").

Make a sentence using the past perfect (=have/has + past participle).

Make a sentence using the future.

Tenses

Go to page 133 in your source book. Be prepared to use p. 133-137 to answer the following questions.

When do you use the present continuous?

When do you use the present perfect?

When do you use the past perfect?

Tenses

Simple present              altijd, nooit of regelmatig           I often watch TV
Present continuous    nu bezig of aan de gang              He’s watching TV
Simple past                     een moment in het verleden     We got home at ten
Past continuous           toen aan de gang                            She was reading when I saw her
Present perfect            toen tot en met nu                          They have lived here for six years
Pres. Perfect cont.      toen tot en met nu + nadruk       I’ve been waiting for one hour
Past perfect                   toen tot en met toen                      We had lived there for five years in 2000
Future                               van plan zijn                                       We’re eating out this evening
Future                               van plan zijn                                       We’re going to eat out this evening
Future                               toekomst                                             We will/shall arrive there at 8

Let's give it a try!

Write down the correct form of the verb in brackets. If there's more than one, separate them with a comma, like this:

have been, worked

1. My family _________(buy) some land in southern France recently.

1. They _________ (build) a summer house there at the moment.

2. Jonathon ____ (watch) the news on TV every day and it ____ (help) him with his English.

3. My car _____ (break) down when I _____ (drive) home from work.

3. I would have fixed it if I ____ (know) what was wrong. But I didn’t so I ____ (have) to take it to the garage.

4. When he ___ (found) Microsoft, Bill Gates was only 20 years old.

4. He ____ (already write) his first computer programme six years earlier.

Now:

Choose wisely either:

- Listen to extra grammar instruction on the tenses

OR

- Do 1.4 ex. 33, then 31+32 individually