Past SImple vs Present Perfect

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Past Simple
What can you remember about
this tense?

Present Perfect
What can you remember about this tense?

This tense is when something is a completed past action

1. Present Perfect
2. Past Simple

Past Continuous
what can remember about this tense?

Past Perfect
What can you remember about this tense?

Practise Makes Perfect

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Gets a lolly when we go back to school

This tense happens before the Past Simple

1. Present Perfect
2. Past Continuous
3. Past Perfect

He ___ to be a singer for ages now.

1. has wanted
2. wanted
3. had wanted

She ___ she ___ the door but she was wrong.

1. thought/locked
2. had thought/had locked
3. had thought/locked
4. thought/had locked

Jimmy ___ while his brother___ a book.

1. played/read
2. was playing/was reading
3. was playing/read

After I ___my teeth I ___ for school.

1. had brushed/had left
2. brushed/left
3. brushed/had left

Julie __her breakfast before she__ for a run.

1. had/went
2. had had/had gone
3. had had/went

We __ about the news after we ___the assignment.

1. talked/had finished
2. had talked/finished
3. had talked/had finished
4. talked/finished

We __ the meal and __ for a walk.

1. finished/had gone
2. had finished/went
3. finished/went

Past Simple
2 options, give 1

1. Completed past action
2. When is more important than what
3. What is more important than when

Present Perfect
2 options, give 1

1. Started in the past and still going on now
2. Results of a past action still visible now
3. Completed past action

Past Continuous
2 options, give 1

1. First action interrupted by a second action
2. When things happened in sequence (na elkaar)
3. Happened at a specific time

Past Perfect

1. Happened after the past simple
2. Happened before the past simple