Past simple and past continuous

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Lesson plan

• Lesson aims
• Grammar explanation
• Grammar exercises
• Recap lesson aims
• Questions? 

Rules

• Respect
  
• Silence when I speak (and when others speak)
  
• Raise your hand for questions/when answering
  
• Phones in bags!
  
• English as much as possible!
  

Lesson aims

After this lesson you can:

• Correctly explain and use the past simple;
• Correctly explain and use the present continuous.

Past simple

• Something important that happened in the past;
  
• Recognized by words like "Yesterday, last year, this morning, in 2013";
  
• Regular verbs: word + -ed;
  
• For example, "Called, helped, played";
  
• Irregular verbs have different forms (learn by heart);
  
• For example, "ran, sang, bought"

Past simple

• Negative and question sentences:
  
• Did/didn't + verb;
  
• For example, "Did you buy that?" "I didn't buy that."

Past simple

• Special cases regular verbs:
  
• Ending in "-y" -> "-ied"
  
• For example, "Try" becomes "Tried"
  
• Ending in "-e" -> +-d
  
• For example, "Arrange" becomes "Arranged"
  
• Ending in short vowel -> double consonant + -ed
  
• For example, "Plan" becomes "Planned"
  
• More than one syllable + ending in "l" -> double "l" + -ed
  
• For example, "Travel" becomes "Travelled"

They cry loudly
Make past simple

1. They cryed loudly.
2. They craw loudly.
3. They are crying loudly.
4. They cried loudly.

I accept it.

1. I accepted it.
2. I acceptted it
3. I am accepting it.
4. I acceptied it.

What happens when a multi-syllabic (woord met meerdere lettergrepen) ends in "l"?

Past continuous

• You use the pastt continuous when:
• You talk about something that was going on in the past;
• For example, "I was calling you when you watched a movie"
• "He was talking when the teacher called his name."
• Or what you were doing;
• For example, "I was trying to be helpful."

Past continuous

You make the past continuous with:

• Was/were + verb + -ing
• For example, "I was writing a poem while I was travelling by train."

Past continuous

Special cases:

• Words ending with consonant + -e 
• Example: Arrange -> arranged (only add a -d)
• Words ending with short vowel + consonant
• Example: Plan -> Planning (double consonant)
• Words with more than one syllable + ending in -l
• Example: Travel -> Travelling (double -l)

I walked down the street.
Make past continuous

1. I have walked down the street.
2. I was walking down the street.
3. I am walking down the street.
4. I have been walking down the street.

I travel abroad every year.
Make past continuous

1. I was travelling abroad last year.
2. I have been travelling for a year.
3. I travelled abroad yesterday.
4. I have travelled a lot.

How do you make the past continuous?

When do you use the past continuous?

Recap lesson aims

After this lesson you can:

• Correctly explain and use the past simple;
  
• Correctly explain and use the present continuous.

Questions