1st lesson

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t, mavo
• Leerjaar 2

The Past Simple

By: lligeon

Content

The goals

The rules

The forms

The goals

At the end of this lesson you will:

1. know what the past simple is
2. know what the rules are
3. know how to apply the rules
4. know how to apply the rules in all forms
   

The rules

This is Ed.

73 years old.

loves to talk about the good old days.

"When I was sixteen I worked for a telephone company."

The rules

A grammatical structure you use to talk about things and actions that:

• have taken place in the past
• and are over and done.
  

Examples

When I was sixteen, I looked like James Dean.

Yesterday I travelled by bus.

Last year we went to Spain to visit my aunt.

You use the past simple to talk about things and actions that:

1. are going to happen
2. are happening
3. happened in the past and are still happening
4. happened in the past and are over and done

The forms

You can use verbs in 3 forms:

Affirmative --> something is true

Negative     --> something is NOT true

Question     --> you aks if something is true or not

Example

Affirmative --> I worked for a telephone company.

Negative --> I did not work for a telephone company.

Question --> Did I work for a telephone company?

The form: affirmative

You take the verb, and put             (ed) next to it:

work + ed = worked

play + ed = played

But:

go + ed = goed (incorrect)

irregular verb go = went (past simple)

What is the past simple of the following verbs:
help, stay, love, be

1. helped, stayed, loved, beed
2. helped, staid, loveed, was
3. helped, stayed, loved, was
4. helped, staid, loveed, beed

The form: negative

You need two things:

1. did
2. not
   

The form: negative

1. You take the two things (did + not) and put them in front of the verb.
2. You remove           from the verb.

Example

I worked for a telephone company.

1. I did not worked for a telephone company.
2. I did not work for a telephone company.

Write down the negative form of this sentence:
Alice looked at the birds in the trees.

Write down the negative form of this sentence:
The boy studied very hard for the test.

The form: question

You need only 1 of the 2 things:

1. did

The form: question

1. You take the one thing (did) and you put it at the beginning of the sentence.
2. You remove            from the verb.

Example

I worked for a telephone company.

Did I worked for a telephone company?

Did I work for a telephone company?

Write down the question form of this sentence:
Alice looked at the birds in the trees.

Write down the question form of this sentence:
The boy studied hard for the test.

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