Past simple 2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1,2

Schedule

1. Revisiting your posts on social media
2. Past Simple overview 
3. Practice

At the end of this lesson...

• You will be able to use the past simple with regular and irregular verbs.
• You will be able to explain when we use the Past Simple
• You will be able to talk about an event/activity in the past.

Homework 

Have a look at 3 other posts you made on social media and answer the following questions using the PAST SIMPLE TENSE:

1. What did you do?
2. Why did you do this?
3. Where were you?
4. Who were there?

Discuss

1. Briefly describe at least 1 post you chose to your neighbour using the answers you wrote down (you can describe more if you have time left). 
2. You have 5 minutes to describe your posts to each other.
3.  Be ready to tell the class what your neighbour told you.

Past Simple

The past simple is what in Dutch is called the verleden tijd.

Past Simple

You use the past simple when something happened in the past and is finished.

Past Simple - Regular Verbs

With a regular verb you put '-ed' at the end.

I walk -> I walked

He walks -> He walked

They walk -> They walked

Past Simple - Regular verbs

Spelling:

If the verb ends with a consonant + -y then the -y changes into -ie:

• I carry - I carried
  Nothing changes when a verb ends with a vowel + -y:

• I play - I played
  If a verb ends with -e, then you only have to add a -d in the Past Simple:

• I live - I lived
  In the Past Simple, when a verb ends with a vowel + consonant then the consonant is doubled when adding -ed:

• I drop - I dropped

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

Past Simple - Irregular verbs

There are no rules for the irregular verbs, you just have to learn them by heart

Past Simple - Questions/negations

Questions -> Did + base form of the verb

Did you walk to school yesterday?

Negations -> didn't + base form of verb

You didn't walk to school yesterday.

Past Simple - Signal words

In Dutch signal words are called 'signaal woorden'  

These words help you to see if something happened in the past:

• yesterday
• last week
• ten minutes ago
• in 2007

My sister .......... (play) the guitar last year.

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

What is the past tense of: help

1. helping
2. helped
3. helps
4. help'd

What is the past tense of: study

1. studyd
2. studyied
3. studyed
4. studied

What is the past tense of: buy

1. buyed
2. bought
3. boughd
4. bught

What is the past tense of: walk

1. walkt
2. wolked
3. wolk
4. walked

fill in: I ..... a sandwich yesterday.

1. eat
2. drink
3. drank
4. ate

Fill in: We ..... on holiday 2 years ago.

1. go
2. went
3. been
4. walked

Fill in: I ..... very happy yesterday.

1. am
2. is
3. was
4. were

You use a past simple when...

1. Something happend in the future
2. something happens every day
3. something happend in the past and is finished
4. something didn't happen yet.

Irregular verbs

When do you use the past simple?

Exit-tickets

Choose a ticket with one of these colours:
Pink = I don't understand the Past Simple.

Orange = I understand parts of the Past Simple, but I need more practice.

Green = I completely understand the Past Simple and feel comfortable using                    it.

Write your name on the ticket and stick it on the door as you leave the classroom!