FOCUS 1: Unit 6 past simple intro

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May/June/July
Marks for English (cijfers)
  • 1st week of June: test unit 6 (past simple)
  • M-tasks
  • Final week: test unit 8 (future) + reading

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Past Simple
FOCUS 1 unit 6
in Dutch: 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:
A verb ending on a consonant + -y, ---> -y in -ie:

  • I carry - I carried

No change with a vowel + -y :

  • I play - I played

When a verb ends with an -e, then just + -d 

  • I live - I lived

Final consonant is doubled when it ends with vowel + consonant:

  • I drop - I dropped
VOWELS

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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 verb 
'to be'

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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 - Keywords
Keywords 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 11 - Open question

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

Slide 12 - Open question

What is the past tense of: Help
A
helping
B
helped
C
helps
D
help'd

Slide 13 - Quiz

What is the past tense of: study
A
studyd
B
studyied
C
studyed
D
studied

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What is the past tense of: buy
A
buyed
B
bought
C
boughd
D
bught

Slide 15 - Quiz

What is the past tense of: walk
A
walkt
B
wolked
C
wolk
D
walked

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fill in: I ..... a sandwich yesterday.
A
eat
B
drink
C
drank
D
ate

Slide 17 - Quiz

Fill in: We ..... on holiday 2 years ago.
A
go
B
went
C
been
D
walked

Slide 18 - Quiz

Fill in: I ..... very happy yesterday.
A
am
B
is
C
was
D
were

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You use a past simple when...
A
something happened in the future
B
something happens every day
C
something happened in the past and is finished
D
something didn't happen yet.

Slide 20 - Quiz

Name one of the keywords belonging to the past simple

Slide 21 - Open question

When do you use the past simple?

Slide 22 - Open question

Give an example of an
irregular verb

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And an example
of a regular verb

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What is the past simple
of to be?

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Any questions?

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