Spooktacular Check 2 - 4H (CH2)

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Unit 2: Spooktacular

Check 2

Goals of this class

I know when to use the past simple and the past continuous
(I can use the past simple and/or past continuous in a sentence)
I can recognise the words of the chapter..
..and use them in a sentence

I was doing the dishes when....

What do we call the tense used in the sentence?

Past simple

• An action that has finished.
  
  
• A story about different actions that happened in
  the past. 

? Did I talk to her last week?
+ I talked to her last week.

- I didn't talk to her last week.

Tom asked his sister if she knew the girl, but his sister also said "No." He was devastated. 

Past continuous

• Used to describe a longer action going on in the past:
  someone was in the middle
  of doing something.
  
  
• (background) descriptions.  They often describe what the scene looks like!

I was looking for new shoes.
I was playing tennis at six pm.

She was wearing a dress and tights. Her hand was holding up a peace sign.

Past simple vs past continuous

We use the past simple for the shorter action (interruption), and the past continuous for the longer action (that was already going on).

I was working when my mom walked in. 

My father came home while/as I was doing the dishes.

Fill in the gap using the past simple or past continuous.

I was drinking water when my mom ......... (come) in.

Suzie called as I .......... (think) about her.

He was lurking

1. naar adem snakken
2. staren
3. laten schrikken
4. op de loer liggen

to .... with fear

1. tremble
2. slither
3. knock
4. scare

.... out of thin our

1. vanish
2. startle
3. hover
4. diffuse

The man saw the ...... and knew he would die.

1. bogeyman
2. Grim Reaper
3. corpse
4. spirit

doen opschrikken

1. to shriek
2. to gasp
3. to startle
4. to tremble

Goals of this class

I know when to use the past simple and the past continuous
(I can use the past simple and/or past continuous in a sentence)
I can recognise the words of the chapter..
..and use them in a sentence