Past simple and Present perfect

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 3

Lesson plan

• Lesson aims
• Grammar explanation
• Grammar exercises
• Recap lesson aims
• Questions? 

Rules

• Respect
  
• Silence when I speak (and when others speak)
  
• Raise your hand for questions/when answering
  
• Phones in bags!
  
• English as much as possible!
  

Lesson aims

After this lesson you can:

• Correctly explain and use the past simple;
• Correctly explain and use the present perfect. 

Past simple

• Something important that happened in the past;
  
• Recognized by words like "Yesterday, last year, this morning, in 2013";
• Regular verbs: word + -ed;
• For example, "Called, helped, played";
• Irregular verbs have different forms (learn by heart);
• For example, "ran, sang, bought"

Past simple

• Negative and question sentences:
• Did/didn't + verb;
• For example, "Did you buy that?" "I didn't buy that."

Past simple

• Special cases regular verbs:
• Ending in "-y" -> "-ied"
• For example, "Try" becomes "Tried" 
• Ending in "-e" -> +-d
• For example, "Arrange" becomes "Arranged"
• Ending in short vowel -> double consonant + -ed
• For example, "Plan" becomes "Planned"
• More than one syllable + ending in "l" -> double "l" + -ed
• For example, "Travel" becomes "Travelled"

They cry loudly
Make past simple

1. They cryed loudly.
2. They craw loudly.
3. They are crying loudly.
4. They cried loudly.

I accept it.

1. I accepted it.
2. I acceptted it
3. I am accepting it.
4. I acceptied it.

What happens when a multi-syllabic (woord met meerdere lettergrepen) ends in "l"?

Present perfect

• Use the present perfect when:
• Something happened in the past, but the time is not important;
• For example, "I have worked on that."
• Something started in the past and is still going on;
• For example, "I have been here since 10 o'clock."
• Have/has + past participle (voltooid deelwoord)

Present perfect

• Regular verbs end in -ed;
• For example, "work" becomes "worked" 
• Irregular verbs have their own forms;
• For example, "be" becomes "been"  

I wait.
Which is the present perfect?

1. I waited for a while.
2. I have waited since this morning
3. I was waiting.
4. I had waited for a while.

I call.
Which is the present perfect?

1. I have called this morning.
2. I had called yesterday.
3. I called this morning.
4. I have been calling for half an hour.

How do you write the present perfect?

When do you use the present perfect?

Recap lesson aims

• After this lesson you can:
  
• Correctly explain and use the past simple;
  
• Correctly explain and use the present perfect. 

Questions?