Past simple

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

This lesson

Grammar (past simple)

Exercises

Bonus test

Bonus for the speaking test

Grammar: Present simple, present continuous, past simple

Tuesday 25 April

Voluntary (you don't have to take the test)

Past simple

Past (important when it happened)

Signal words: yesterday, last night, this morning, in 1982... etc

Ww + -ed

Walked, played, missed, etc

You played a game with her.

We missed her so much.

I was there yesterday. (irregular!)

Lana did asked a question.

1. Correct
2. Incorrect

Ben and Anna waited for hours yesterday.

1. Correct
2. Incorrect

Past simple:
He ... her a question. (to ask)

Past simple:
Leon and Lenny ... over the fence.
(to jump)

Past simple:
We ... the news yesterday. (to watch)

Questions and negative sentences

 I walked to school yesterday.

Questions and negative sentences

 I walked to school yesterday.

Did I walk to school yesterday?

Questions and negative sentences

 I walked to school yesterday.

Did I walk to school yesterday?

I didn't walk to school yesterday.

Questions and negative sentences

Remove -ed

Add did (?) or didn't (-)

She shouted at him.

Did she shout at him?

She didn't shout at him.

Turn into a question:
Lindsay asked him a question.
(don't forget ?)

Turn into a question:
She shared her dinner.

Turn into a negative sentence:
We looked after her.
(don't forget . )

Past simple

She was late.

The children were at home.

?-

Exercises

Do exercise A and E (5.2)

Finished?

Check your answers

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