Recap past simple and past continuous Grammar

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 2

Today´s lesson

- Unit 5.

- Recap grammar: past simple

- Grammar: past continuous 

- Practice 

- Checking answers

At the end of this lesson I know how to use the past continuous

Something happened in the past and finished in the past.

Past/

Present/

Future

action is finished

The Past Simple

Regular verbs                                           Irregular verbs

verb + ed

Mind:

try - tried

live - lived

second row (Past Simple)

(learn them by heart)

Fill in the correct Past Simple form:
Nancy ....... with her friends yesterday.

1. plays
2. played
3. plaied
4. did played

Choose the correct Past Simple form:
Miss vd Valk ....... me how to use the Past Simple yesterday.

1. teached
2. taughted
3. taught
4. teaches

Past Simple: Questions

With all verbs:

Did + subject + infinitive

Examples:

Did you go?

Did she see?

Did they find?

Past Simple: Negations

With all verbs:

Subject + didn't + infinitive

Examples:

I didn't go

He didn't see

We didn't find

Maak een vraag:
The girl had breakfast.

Maak een ontkenning:
I ate a sandwich.

Maak ontkennend:
Daniel played in the park

past continuous 

The Past Continuous is used when:

Something was happening (for a while) in the past; it was going on at that moment. 

Was/were & verb + ing 

Indication words

For the Past Continuous:

When, while 

The doorbell rang, when I was cooking dinner.

The phone rang, while I was setting the table. 

Past Continuous vs. Past Simple 

You use the Past Continuous combined with the  Past Simple to indicate that something happened (short action: Past simple) while something else was going on/continuing (longer action: Past continuous). 

Example:

I was reading a book when the phone rang

I was washing my car when the accident happened 

Homework

Exercise: 3, 4a, 5 and 6a (page 68-69)

Exercise: 1, 2a, 3, 4 (page 72-73)