Past tense review

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

Past tense review - writing a short story

By the end of this lesson, you will have written a short story using both regular and irregular verbs in the past simple tense.

Step 1: Review the rules of the regular verbs again (last chance to write them down before your SO tomorrow).

Step 2: Look at the most commonly used irregular verbs.

Step 3: Now, work in small groups (4-5students).Each person writes one sentence at a time in the past simple, then passes the paper along. Correct each other if needed.

Step 4: In the last 5 minutes, we will read the stories out loud to the class. Listen carefully and notice the past tense forms!

Goal: By the end of this lesson, you will have written a short story using both regular and irregular verbs in the past simple tense.

Step 1: Review the rules of the regular verbs again (last chance to write them down before your SO tomorrow).

Step 2: Look at the most commonly used irregular verbs.

Step 3: Now, work in small groups (4-5 students).Each person writes one sentence at a time in the past simple, then passes the paper along. Correct each other if needed.

Step 4: In the last 5 minutes, we will read the stories out loud to the class. Listen carefully and notice the past tense forms!

Regular verbs

How do you make the past simple with regular verbs:
Use example verbs such as stop, work, cry and enjoy.

How to make the past simple with regular verbs

Rule 1: Add -ed     

play → played, walk → walked, cook → cooked

Rule 2: Add -d with verbs ending with -e

live → lived, like → liked, bake → baked

Rule 3: Verbs ending in a consonant + y, change -y to -ied

study → studied, carry → carried, tidy → tidied

Rule 4: One-syllable verbs ending in CVC (medeklinker-klinker-medeklinker)

stop → stopped, plan → planned, tip → tipped

*cvc- words ending with w, x or y don't use this rule: snow → snowed, play →played

How do I make questions and negatives in the past simple?

Questions and Negatives

How to make a questions in the past simple:

Did + subject + base verb + (rest of sentence)?

Did you cry?

Did Sue work (in the supermarket when she was young)?

Did they stop (immediately)?

How to make a negative in the past simple:

Subject + did not (didn’t) + base verb + (rest of sentence).

You didn't (did not) cry.

Sue didn't work (in the supermarker when she was young).

They didn't stop (immediately).

Irregular verbs

Find the irregular verb in the sentence and write it down together with its base verb.

Example:

I flew to Chicago last year.

Write down: flew - fly

* some sentences have more than one verb

Example: I gave her a present.

After dinner I went to her house and told her the truth.

I thought you were listening.

I got paid for the job.

She said that she took the jewel with her.

Now you are going to write a short story

- Write a sentence in the past tense (regular or irregular) and hand it down to the person next to you.

- Check if the person before wrote the sentence correctly and correct it if necessary

- Keep passing it on until everybody has written at least 4 sentences.

- 10 minutes before we stop I'll give you a signal to wrap up the story.

- The last few minutes will be used to read the stories out loud, choose the person who is going to read before you start writing. Listen carefully and see if you hear when the past tense is used.