Past tenses

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Today

• Learn to recognise the past tenses
• Learn to use the past tenses to speak about events that happened to you in the past.

Past Tenses

• Past simple
• Past continuous 
• Past perfect
• Present perfect (voltooide tijd)

Past Tenses

• Past simple

I walked to school everyday.

• Past continuous

I was walking to school yesterday morning.

• Present perfect
  I have walked to school since I was four years old.
  
  
• Past perfect
  I had eaten breakfast before I walked to school.  

They were paying attention that lesson

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous

He was finding it difficult to concentrate during the test

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous

He usually asked questions during the lesson

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous

I was driving when you called. 

1. Past continuous
2. Past perfect

He had answered all the questions correctly

1. Past continuous
2. Past perfect

He had found his books in time for class.

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous
3. Past perfect
4. Past perfect continuous

She sailed the English channel every year. 

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous
3. Past perfect
4. Past perfect continuous

Lisa and Marie were singing when the teacher arrived. 

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous
3. Past perfect
4. Past perfect continuous

If you had done the homework, I wouldn't be mad!

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous
3. Past perfect
4. Past perfect continuous

How do you make the
past perfect?

How do you make the
past continuous?

Past Tenses

Simple: verb + (e)d

Continuous: to be (was/were) + verb + ing

Perfect: to have (had) + verb + (e)d