Past Simple/Past Continuous

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• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1,2

The Past Simple

and the

Past Continuous

Aims of Today's Lesson

That you can explain/understand/give examples of:

• A tense
• The Past Simple
• The Past Continuous
• Page 27 + 28 in your New Headway textbook
  

What is a tense? (give examples)

Past Simple

Why do we use it?

We use the past tense to talk about:

• Something that happened once in the past
• Something that happened several times in the past
• Something that was true for some time in the past
  
• we often use expressions with ago with the past
  

Examples:
I met my wife in 1983. (it happened once)

We swam a lot while we were on holiday. (it happened several times)

I lived abroad for ten years. (it was true for some time in the past)

I met my wife a long time ago. (expression with ago)

What are Past Simple Negatives and Questions again? (Give examples)

Past Simple

Negatives and Questions

What do you remember about Irregular and Regular Verbs?

Which sentence is in the Past Simple?

1. I cried all day
2. She dances well
3. The panda is blind
4. We are having a party

Past Simple

Assignment: 5 minutes

Cry

Dance

Fall

Sing

Swim

Jump

Scream

Laugh

Learn

Shake

Sigh

Dream

Shout

Vomit

Read

Relax

Write 5 weird sentences, using 5 different verbs

Make sure they are  PAST SIMPLE sentences! Challenge yourself by turning them into negative and question sentences as well

Show me your sentences!

Past Continuous

What do you remember about the Past Continuous?

Past Continuous

We use the Past Continuous to talk about the past

• To show that something continued for some time:
  Example: Everyone was shouting.
  
  
• To talk about something that happened again and again:
  Example: I was practicing every day, three times a day.
  
  
• With verbs which show change or growth:
  Example: The children were growing up quickly.

Past Continuous

What was it again?

The grammar rule:

Examples:

Past Continuous

Negatives and Questions

Negatives:

Questions:

https:

Past Continuous

Turn to page 27 + 28 in your New Headway Textbook and make the assignments on those pages

Not done? Then it's Homework

Write one sentence using the Past Continuous