Past simple AH1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 1,2

Past Simple

(grammar 16 a/b)

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

After a regular verb you put     '-ed'

I walk        -> I walked

He walks -> He walked

They walk -> They walked

Past Simple - Regular verbs

Spelling:
Als een werkwoord eindigt op een medeklinker + -y, dan verandert de -y in -ie:

• I carry - I carried

Let op, er verandert niets als het werkwoord eindigt op klinker + -y:

• I play - I played

Als een werkwoord eindigt op -e, dan komt er in de past simple alleen een -d achter:

• I live - I lived

In de past simple wordt de laatste medeklinker verdubbeld als er één klinker voor staat:

• I drop - I dropped

Past Simple - Signal words

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

• LAST (week/month/year)
• AGO (ten minutes ago)
• DATE (in 2007)
• YESTERDAY

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:   Made in China

Past Simple - Irregular verbs

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

(p. 204)

zie apart Word Doc met de te leren irr.verbs

Past Simple 'to be' (zijn)

I was mad

You were mad

He was mad

Past simple bij "to be" 

De verleden tijd van (to) be=
was of were

I                        WAS

You                  WERE

He/she/it      WAS
We                    WERE

You                  WERE
They                WERE

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

What is the past tense of: study

1. studyd
2. studied

What is the past tense of: walk

1. walkt
2. walked

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

1. go
2. went

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

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

You use a past simple when...

1. Something happened in the future
2. something happens every day
3. something happened in the past and is finished