Past simple - Regular verbs & to be/can

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Past simple

Past Simple

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

The past simple is what in Dutch is called the verleden tijd.

 Regular Verbs

After a regular verb you put -ed'

I walk -> I walked

He walks -> He walked

They walk -> They walked

 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

 Regular Verbs Spelling

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 word

In Dutch signal words are called 'signaal woorden'  

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

• yesterday
• last week
• ten minutes ago
• in 2007
• when I was a baby

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.

Choose the correct Past Simple form:
NAC ....... young PSV last week. (defeat)

1. defeat
2. defeated
3. defeats
4. defeateds

Choose the correct Past Simple form:
Nancy ....... with her friends yesterday.

1. has played
2. played
3. plaied
4. did played

Past simple:
I _____ (study) very hard yesterday.

1. study
2. studyed
3. studies
4. studied

Past simple:
you _____ (clean)

1. clean
2. cleans
3. cleaned

Past simple:
He _____ (stop)

1. stop
2. stops
3. stoped
4. stopped

past simple:
You ...... very hard.

1. try
2. tries
3. tried
4. tryed

Wat is een signaalwoord van de verleden tijd?

1. tomorrow
2. last...
3. never
4. since

What is the past tense of: Work

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

What is the past tense of: Help

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

What is the past tense of: Study

1. studyd
2. studyied
3. studyed
4. studied

"To be" & "Can"

Irregular Verbs

Het werkwoord 'to be' is een irregular verb. Deze werkwoorden houden zich niet aan de -ed regel.

Irregular verbs moet je uit je hoofd leren, maar we beginnen nu simpel met alleen de werkwoorden

"To be" & "can"

To be

"To be" heeft 2 vormen in de verleden tijd. 

I/she/he/it -> was

You/we/they -> were 

Let op! - were is niet hetzelfde als where

Can

Als je wil zeggen of iets in het verleden kon dan doe je dat zo:

We can -> We could  

I didn't like soccer because I _______ very good at it.

1. was
2. wasn't
3. weren't
4. couldn't

History _____ a compulsory subject at my school, so I chose Geography instead.

1. was
2. wasn't
3. were
4. could

When my children ______ in primary school they often came home with fun stories about their day.

1. was
2. wasn't
3. were
4. weren't

Last week, it _______ so cold in the classroom that we ________ think or write!

1. was, could
2. was, were
3. was, couldn't
4. were, couldn't

I wasn't allowed to go to the mall, but I _______ go to the playground nearby.

1. was
2. were
3. could
4. couldn't

Past simple

Do exercises 1-7 on page 66 of your SB.