Past simple, past perfect and past continuous

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

At the end of this lesson I...

• can form the past continuous, past simple and past perfect tense.
• can choose the correct form in a sentence. 

Past tenses

past simple, past continuous, past perfect

Use your Zuidschrift to take notes!

Past simple

To express a completed past action. In narratives it expresses actions in the order they happened

How?

Past continuous

To express a past activity that has a duration.

The activity was in progress before, and probably after a time in the past. 

How?

To express an action in the past which happened before another action in the past. 

How?

Past perfect

Match the tenses to the sentences

An activity that happend before another activity.

A completed past activity.

An activity in the past that has duration. 

Past perfect

Past simple

Past Continuous

My father .................(read) the newspaper when my sister ....................(phone)

1. was reading/ phoned
2. read/ was phoning
3. readed/ was phoning
4. was reading/ was phoning

Fill in the correct past tenses:
After Fred ___ (spend) his holiday in Italy, he ___ (want) to learn Italian.

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