3H - Past tenses review (past simple/past perfect)

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• Middelbare school
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The past tenses

Review

Past tenses

Used to describe moments and periods of time in the past. 

When Andrea arrived at work at 9:00 ...

... her secretary had opened the post.

.... her secretary was opening the post.

... her secretary opened the post. 

Past simple

Form is the same for all people.

I / you / we / they / he / she / it + verb + ed / irregular verb

He left at three o'clock. 

They arrived three weeks ago.

She didn't finish on time yesterday. 

I didn't visit my parents last weekend. 

What time did the train leave?

Past simple: use

1. Express a finished action in the past.

We met in 2000. 

I went to Manchester last week.

2. Actions that follow each other in a story.

Mary walked into the room and stopped. She listened carefully. She heard a noise coming from behind the curtain. 

3. A past situation or habit.  

When I was a child, we lived in a small house by the sea. 

I used to walk the dog every day. 

Past perfect

Same for all persons.

I / you / we / they / she / he / it + had + past participle (irregular / verb + ed)

I hadn't seen him before. 

They had met before they saw each other at the party yesterday.

Past Perfect: use

1. Used to show that one action happened before the other.

When I got home, I found that someone had broken into my apartment and had stolen my TV. 

When I got to the party, Peter had gone home. 

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Homework

Reading boekje

Maak opdracht 1 t/m 6 reading strategies (vanaf p. 6)