Past tenses review Y3

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Welcome H3

Please grab your book and check where you left off.

15 minutes of silent reading

Today's planning

To do: 

Past tenses review

Goals: 

* You know when to use The Past Simple

* You know when to use The Past Continuous

* You know when to use The Past Perfect

Past tenses

Used to describe moments and periods of time in the past. 

When Andrea arrived at work at 9:00 ...

... her secretary had opened the post.

.... her secretary was opening the post.

... her secretary opened the post. 

Past simple

Form is the same for all people.

I / you / we / they / he / she / it + verb + ed / irregular verb

He left at three o'clock. 

They arrived three weeks ago.

She didn't finish on time yesterday. 

I didn't visit my parents last weekend. 

What time did the train leave?

Past simple: use

1. Express a finished action in the past.

We met in 2000. 

I went to Manchester last week.

2. Actions that follow each other in a story.

Mary walked into the room and stopped. She listened carefully. She heard a noise coming from behind the curtain. 

3. A past situation or habit.  

When I was a child, we lived in a small house by the sea. 

I used to walk the dog every day. 

Past Continuous

Form isn't the same for all persons

I/he/she/it was + verb+ing

you/we/they were + verb+ing

I was walking to the train station yesterday

You were telling the truth, weren't you?

Past Continuous: use

1. When you talk about something happening at a specific period of time in the past

They were dancing at the party for hours

2. When you talk about something happening after a specific time

It was eight o'clock, I was writing a letter.

Past Perfect

Same for all persons.

I / you / we / they / she / he / it + had + past participle (irregular / verb + ed)

I hadn't seen him before. 

They had met before they saw each other at the party yesterday.

Past Perfect: use

1. Used to show that one action happened before the other.

When I got home, I found that someone had broken into my apartment and had stolen my TV. 

2. Tells stories in a non-chronological order.

Sue and Peter divorced last month. They'd met at university. and had been together for six years. 

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