Mastering the Past Simple and Irregular Verbs

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Past simple crash course

Learning Objective

• At the end of the lesson, you will be able to confidently use the past simple tense and identify irregular verbs.

What do you already know about the past simple and irregular verbs?

Past Simple and Time Expressions

Time expressions such as 'yesterday', 'last week', and 'in 2010' are commonly used with the past simple tense to indicate when an action occurred.

What is the Past Simple?

The past simple is a tense used to talk about completed actions in the past. It is formed by adding '-ed' to regular verbs.

For example: 'walk' becomes 'walked'.

Dani crossed a boundry last week.

Pizza used to be my favourite food.

I loved seeing Ghost live in Amsterdam.

Irregular Verbs

Irregular verbs do not follow the '-ed' rule. They have unique forms in the past simple. 

For example: 'go' becomes 'went'.

I go to the store -----> I went to the store.

I eat breakfast ----> I eight breakfast.

I drive to work everyday. ------> I drove to work everyday.

Yesterday we (to walk).... to the store.

Yesterday I (to lift)..... weights.

Last year (to be) ..... terrible.

I ____ to the movies yesterday.

Choose the correct past simple form of to eat 'I ____ a delicious cake on my birthday.'

Past Simple of 'To Be'

The past simple of the verb 'to be' is 'was' for singular subjects and 'were' for plural subjects. For example: 'I was tired.' 'They were happy.'

• I was tired.
• He/she/it was tired
• We were tired.
• They were tired.

She ____ in London last year.

They .... in Japan last summer.

Sentence Formation

To form sentences in the past simple, use the subject followed by the past simple verb and any additional information. 

For example: 'I visited my grandparents last weekend.'

Reorder the words to form a correct sentence in the past simple: 'yesterday / I / to the beach / went'.

Past Simple Questions

To form questions in the past simple, use the auxiliary verb 'did' followed by the subject and the base form of the verb. 

For example: 'Did you watch the movie?'

Form a question using the given words: 'you / eat / dinner / yesterday?'

Past Simple Negative

To form negative sentences in the past simple, use the auxiliary verb 'did not' (didn't) followed by the base form of the verb. 

For example: 'I didn't go to the party.'

Form a negative sentence using the given words: You, to work, last year.

Write down 1 thing you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 1 thing you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Any final questions?

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.

Homework

Exercise 1 - 10 on page 10 - 12.

To the person that stole my Microsoft Office, I will find you.

You have my word.