Past Simple vs Present Perfect

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo b, k, mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 3

Past Simple vs Present Perfect

Contents

1) Korte herhaling grammar

2) Exercise A: put the verbs in the correct form

3) Exercise B: correct the mistakes

4) Practice the irregular verbs

Past simple vs Present Perfect

Past simple: is finished and you know when it happened.

yesterday, last week, a month ago, in 1990, etc...

Present perfect: (1)just finished / you notice the results now, (2)still going on now, (3)experience, (4)don't know when it happened.

Signaalwoorden: for, yet, never, ever, just, already, since, lately

Ezelsbrug = FYNE JAS

Present Perfect

*Started in the past and still continuing now

*just finished / you notice the effects(results) now

*no time indication

*experiences 

+ = have/has + 3rd form or verb-ed

- = hasn't/haven't + 3rd form or -ed

? = have/has + subject + 3rd form or -ed

for, yet, never, ever, just, already, since, lately 

Ezelsbrug = FYNE JAS

I have had breakfast

They have played piano.

She hasn't walked in the rain

Have we eaten food?

Past Simple

* happened in the past and is finished. (tijdsindicatie)

+ = verb-ed / 2nd form

- = did not (didn't) + verb

? = did + subject + verb

The man played piano.

She swam in the sea.

He didn't sell his tickets.

Did we play all night?

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Exercise A

Put the sentences in the correct form of the past simple or present perfect

Type the whole sentence!

She (to be) to Paris many times.

Bill (to work) for that company for 3 years already.

(They - to go) to London on holiday last summer?

(you - to read) this book yet?

(you - to watch) any films lately?

His parents (to be) here yesterday.

I (to have) a couple of toasts for breakfast this morning.

He (not - to live) in Rome since he was a teenager.

Exercise B

Correct the mistakes.

Type only the correct form of the verbs.

Type correct if there is no mistake in the sentence

Did your brother maked a mistake yesterday?

I have not seen you in class yesterday.

Jenny has written a lot of songs.

I can't find my keys. I lost them.

I visited him in the hospital three times this month.

They did not the wash yesterday.

He catched the ball.

I have not done my homework.

Exercise C

Practice the irregular verbs on Jewels of Wisdom 

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