Lesson 3 English with Miss Plazier

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Today's planning 

• flashback 
• the homework so far & frequently made mistakes
• look at the verbs of the murder story step by step 
• difficulties? 
• next week 
• snowball moment 

Today's Lesson Goals 

• At the end of this class, you will be able to understand the past simple, past perfect, past continuous and passive and know when to apply them. 
•  At the end of this class, you will be able to understand some of the common mistakes with these grammar tenses. 

What do you still want to learn about grammar/find difficult?

At sunrise, the barn animal........ (to wake up).

1. had woken up
2. woked up
3. woke up
4. was waking up

Past simple vs. past continuous

• At 4 pm last Tuesday, I was working in the office.

past continuous, because you want to emphasize that the action/event (= work) was in progress around a time in the past and were not finished.  

• At 4 pm last Monday, I finished work early and went home.

past simple, because you want to emphasize that the events happened at a definite time in the past and were finished. Emphasis is on the whole of the events, not on an ongoing event. 

Homework: frequently made mistakes & how to avoid them 

• Don't forget to put "than" in the sentence when you are making a comparison.  

• If you planned your homework more efficiently than you have been doing so far, you would be less tired. 
• If you planned your homework as efficiently as you have been doing so far, you would be less tired. 

• The farrest place she had to travel to for her show was 200 km from her own town.
• The furthest place she had to travel to for her show was 200 km from her own town.

The murder story continues...

• The doctor said Lord Robert was killed between 9-11 pm. 
• The doctor told us that Lord Robert was shot....
• indirecte rede, de dokter vertelt dat....en Lord Robert ondergaat het -> passive (to be + voltooid deelwoord)

• The butler found the body at midnight in the library. 
• The butler discovered him at midnight in the library. 
• Duidelijke tijdsindicatie en duidelijk gestopt -> simple past 

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The murder story continues....

• Lady Jane was playing the piano at 10.30 when she heard a noise.  She said she thought it was a car and did nothing. 
• when something was happening (past continuous) and was suddenly stopped by something else (simple past = onderbreking)
• She pretended she was playing the piano, so, when she heard the shot, she believed it was a car and didn't do anything. 

The murder story continues....

• Sir George Square had arranged to visit Lord Robert on the night of his death but cancelled the appointment.  
• when an action had already finished (clearly done) when something else started. -> When I woke up, she had already left. 
• George had made an appointment to visit that evening, but then he suddenly cancelled. 

The murder story continues....

• The butler was watching TV with his wife all evening. When he was locking up the house, he saw the light on in the library and found the body.  
• emphasis (nadruk) on the action in progress. 
• when something was happening (past continuous) and was suddenly stopped by something else (simple past).
• Some of Lord Robert's letters were found in the butler's room. The butler denied knowing anything about them. 
• passive
• The letters that were hidden in the butler's room which he denied knowing about: Very strange! 
• de brieven ondergaan de handeling en verrichten het dus niet zelf. 

The murder story continues.....

• Lord Robert usually sat in the library by himself drinking whisky in the evenings. Just before his death Lord Robert had lost.... 
• just + past perfect = gebeurtenis die iets eerder voor het heden plaatsvond.  
• Sir George and Lady Jane were keen horse riders and usually they rode together. 

The murder story continues...

• The butler's mother had been ill for a long time and needed an expensive operation.  
• when a moment in the past had happened for a while -> past perfect 

Which tense do you have most difficulties with? (past perfect, past simple, passive, past continuous)?

Next week.....

• There will be time for frequently made mistakes & how to tackle them . 
• Make sure to keep up with the homework on It's Learning: 
  
• Learn your vocabulary (remember to divide it in small parts and learn regularly for the test!): Repeat Unit 1 Lesson 2 vocab & expressions (p.50)!
• Make paragraph 2.3: reading exercises 1-5 
• If you would like to pracice your presentation in front of the class or me, just for practice let me know. We can plan this. 
• I will show you the rubric for the presentations, so you have a better idea of what I will focus on. 

snowball throwing  

1.  I will write down some of the topics you choose 
2. every group member should have a number. 
3. I will throw a paper at the class, the person who catches it will throw it at one of the topics on the board. 
4.  Number 1 starts speaking to their group about this topic. Remember it is about fluency, so try to continue in one go even if you make mistakes along the way. 
5. We will repeat this with the numbers 2, 3, 4 etc.