Hoofdstuk 2 - Les 2

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 4

Past Tense

Past Simple --> Verleden Tijd

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

Past Simple - Signal words

 

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

• yesterday
• last week
• ten minutes ago
• in 2007
• When I was young etc

 How?

WERKWOORD + ED

I walk -> I walked

He walks -> He walked

They walk -> They walked

Past Simple - Questions/negations

Questions 

Did + entire verb:

Did you walk to school yesterday?

Negations 

Didn't + entire verb:

You didn't walked walk to school yesterday.

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 - 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

You can find the list in your workbook

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.

What is the past tense of: Work

1. works
2. workked
3. working
4. worked

What is the past tense of: Help

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

Put the sentence in the past tense:
I play on the PS5 for hours.

Put this sentence in the past tense:
I hop on the train, just in time!

Make this sentence into a negative:
I liked the movie.

Translate this sentence into English:
Zij sliepen niet.

Turn this sentence into a question:
I talked to my friends on Monday.

Practise

Write in about 200 words an experience from the past using past simple.

eg. Last birthday party, An old trip, experience from a previous job etc.