past tenses

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3-5

Learning goals

• The students know how to form the past tenses 
• The students know when to use the past tenses correctly

She________the book yesterday.

1. reads
2. read
3. has read

I couldn't go to school yesterday because we ________ grandmother at the hospital during school hours.

1. visited
2. were visiting
3. had visited

Ms Verhoeven _______ for 6 years before she retired.

1. has been taught
2. is teaching
3. had taught

Past tense quiz time

Past simple:                               I did this

Past perfect:                              I had done this

Past continuous:                     I was doinging this

We _____ Greece last August. (to visit)

1. visit
2. visiting
3. had visited
4. visited

Steve's mother ____ (to make) a frappucino while we were making homework.

1. makes
2. made
3. was making
4. had made

James didn't ____ his homework. (to do)

1. do
2. did
3. done
4. had done

Henry ____ in the woods when he suddenly saw a squirrel. (to walk)

1. had walked
2. walked
3. had been walking

Let's crank it up a notch

Write out the correct form of the verb in these past tense sentences

I _______ (eat) breakfast already.

The sun _____ (to be) barely visible earlier today.

What ______ (to do) Jane do this time?

She ______ (to work) until you distracted her.

She always ______ (to have) detention at school.

I _____(play) in the park today, my owner threw a ball and I chased it!

They were __________ a song, but I don't remember it now

We ______ (to take) a nap so we would be wide awake for the party later.

We have to take the walk without Bob, he ________ (sprain) his ankle two weeks ago.