November 30

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

English lesson

Thursday November 25th

Planning

Lesson goals

Revision Past simple/ Past Continuous

Check exercises 4+5 page 20+21

Do exercise irregular verbs on Learnbeat

Finished? Study past simple/past continuous on Learnbeat or irregular verbs

Check goals

Lesson goals

At the end of the lesson you:

know the difference between the past simple and the past continuous

know the irregular verbs

Past simple - When to use:

1. a finished action in the past. You know when it happened

2.  Actions which follow each other in a story

3. A past situation or habit

1. We met in 1987

2. Mary walked into the room and stopped. She listened carefully.

3. As a child, I used to play with barbies.

	affirmative	negative
I	talked	didn't talk
He/she it	talked	didn't talk
we	talked	didn't talk
you	talked	didn't talk
they	talked	didn't talk

Regular verbs = verb + = -ed

Irregular verbs = list

	Question
Did	I	talk
Did	he/she/it	talk
Did	we	talk
Did	you	talk
Did	they	talk

Past Continuous

Often combined with the Past Simple. Usually the PC refers to longer, 'background' activities, whilst the PS refers to shorter actions.

Use

1. Duration - to express an activity in progress before, and probably after, a particular time in the past

2. To indicate something took long, or at least it felt that way.

1. At 7.00 this morning, I was having breakfast.

2. The dentist was drilling for 3 minutes!

Use

3. To express an interrupted past activity or habit

4. Scene descriptions in a story.

3. When the phone rang, I was having a bath.

    I was going out with Jack when I first met Harry

4. It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining and the birds were singing.

	affirmative	negative
I	was talking	wasn't talking
He/she it	was talking	wasn't talking
we	were talking	weren't talking
you	were talking	weren't talking
they	were talking	weren't talking

	Question
Was	I	talking
Was	he/she/it	talking
Were	we	talking
Were	you	talking
Were	they	talking

Check

Check exercises 4+5 pages  20+21 booklet

To do

Do irregular verbs exercise on Learnbeat

Finished? practise irregular verbs or past simple/past continuous

Lesson goals

At the end of the lesson you:

know the difference between the past simple and the past continuous

know the irregular verbs

Homework

Thursday

Do exercise irregular verbs on Learnbeat

Study irregular verbs list 1-25 page 17 booklet