Recap units 1 +2 - Present and Past Tenses

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Recap all tenses units 1+2

Unit 1

Present Simple

Present Continuous

Unit 2

Past Simple

Past Continuous

Past Perfect

Used to  

Would 

Present tenses Unit 1

Present Simple

• routines
• habits 
• facts

Key words: 

always, never, sometimes, often (etc)

I, you, we, they    run

She, he, it             runs

Do I, you, we they run. No, I don't 

Does she,he, it run? No she doesn't 

Present Continuous

• actions happening now, 
• at the moment of speaking
• changing situations
• to express annoyance
  

Key words:

right now, at the moment (always, forever)

(talk)    > I am talking          > be + verb+ing 

(job)     > You are jogging  > verdubbeling g

(write)  > She is writing      > e vervalt

To express annoyance + always, forever

You are always using my pc when I need it! 

Present tense. Ask youself:

1. Is het state verb? 

> Ja! > Present Simple

> Nee, vraag door. 

2. Is dit een habit, routine, fact?  

> Ja! Present Simple 
> Nee. Vraag door. 

3. Is dit iets wat NU gebeurd?   

> Ja! Present Continuous  

> Nee. Vraag door 

4. Stoort de spreker zich aan iets?   

> Ja! Present Continuous 

> Nee. Repeat the question cycle.

1 She normally (wear) her hair short, she says it looks tidier! 

2 Hurry up – it (get) late. 

3 At the moment my team and I (train) for four hours a day to prepare for the school football finals. 

4 I’m very pleased today because my teacher says I   (make) great progress with my English. 

5 My little sister is really clever but she (not work) very hard. 

6 You (always/complain) about everything – it’s so annoying! 

Past tenses Unit 2

Past Simple

• finished actions in the past
• sequence of events, one after the other. 

Form

• verb+ed  / irregular verb
• Did [subject] run. 
• No, [subject] didn't 

Past Continuous

• activity in progress at the moment of speaking
• activity in progress, a shorter one interrupts it
  
• describes a scene in a story

Form

• was / were + verb+ing
• wasn't/ weren't + verb+ing
  

Past Perfect 

• actions that happened before another

FORM: had + voltooiddeelwoord

Past tense. Ask youself:

1. Is dit een finished action of sequence of events?  

> Ja! Past Simple 
> Nee. Vraag door. 

3. Is dit iets wat TOEN aan de gang was, of beschijft het scene?   

> Ja! Past Continuous  

> Nee. Vraag door 

4. Is dit een handeling die voor een andere handeling gebeurde   

> Ja! Past Perfect 

> Nee. Repeat the question cycle.

Complete with the past simple, past perfect or past continuous form of the verbs given. 

 

1. ‘What  (be) your hotel like?’  

‘Oh, it  (be) amazing – I   (never stay) in a five-star hotel before.’  

2. '(you have) a good night’s sleep?’  

‘Oh, yes. I (still sleep) when everybody else  (have) breakfast.’  

3. ‘Why (you take) the train? It’s such a long journey from Paris to London.’  

‘I know, but I (die) to go through the Channel Tunnel.’