The Past Simple Q&N Regular Verbs

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t
• Leerjaar 1

What do you think this grammar lesson is about?

Past Simple

You can talk about what you did and didn't do and ask questions about things in the past

tapped

tried

cried

tested

liked

washed

stopped

to tap

to try

to cry

to test

to like

to wash

to stop

What do you do to a regular verb to put it into the past tense?

Send in a picture of something you did in the PAST...

Now write a sentence about your picture using the past tense

What is the past simple of
"to brush"?

What is the past simple of
"to race"?

1. races
2. racing
3. raced
4. hurrying

Put in the past simple."My parents cook
every weekend".

Translate:
Ik heb gisteren
voetbal gespeeld.

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Try something more difficult

Questions and negative sentences

Which word do you add to make a question in the simple past?

1. Do
2. Did
3. Was
4. Is

Write in the past simple.
(?) to travel / your friend / last year / to Ireland.

Make a question.
She loved her friend Lev.

If I want to make a negative sentence in the past tense I add...

1. not
2. do not
3. am not
4. did not

In questions and negative sentences in the past, the main verb is in the past tense

1. Correct
2. Incorrect
3. Sometimes

Translate:
Heb jij gisteren gevoetbald?

Write in the past simple
(-) he / to break / leg/yesterday (not short!)

Make negative:
I carried the box upstairs
this morning (short!).

Time for you to get down to work...

Do: Unit 5, lesson 5 ex.2,3,4,5, 8

Finished? Do test yourself Unit 5 lesson 4 & word trainer

I understand how to make questions and negative sentences in the past

Of course, easy!

More or less, I am getting there

No, not really

I have no idea what Ithis is about

What would you like to know? Use the past tense to ask me a question about my past