Past tenses

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Today

• Learn to recognise the pas tenses
• Learn to use the past tenses to speak about events that happened to you in the past 

Past Tenses

• Past simple
• Past continuous 
• Past perfect
• Past perfect continuous 

Past Tenses

• Past simple

I walked to school everyday

• Past continuous

I was walking to school yesterday morning

They were paying attention that lesson

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous

He was finding it difficult to concentrate during the test

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous

He usually asked questions during the lesson

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous

Past Tenses

• Past continuous

I was walking to school yesterday morning

• Past perfect

He had walked to school all his life. 

I was driving when you called. 

1. Past continuous
2. Past perfect

He had answered all the questions correctly

1. Past continuous
2. Past perfect

Past Tenses

• Past perfect

He had walked to school all his life. 

• Past perfect continuous

He had been waiting for three hours when his friend finally showed up.

He had found his books in time for class.

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous
3. Past perfect
4. Past perfect continuous

She sailed the English channel every year. 

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous
3. Past perfect
4. Past perfect continuous

They had been working all weekend. 

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous
3. Past perfect
4. Past perfect continuous

If you had done the homework, I wouldn't be mad!

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous
3. Past perfect
4. Past perfect continuous

How do you make the
past perfect?

How do you make the
past continuous?

How do you make the
past perfect continuous?

Past Tenses

Simple: Just the verb

Continuous: to be (was/were) + verb

Perfect: to have (had) + verb

Perfect continuous: to have (had) + to be (been) + verb