The Simple

Past
Guy Fawkes

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 1. Get to know Guy Fawkes! Glossary
To stab: doodsteken
Folks: mensen
 Listen to the video. A muggins: een zot, een gek
 Have a look at the statements. A barrel: een vat

 Put the story in chronological order.

Guy committed treason and therefore they cut his body into four pieces.

Guy Fawkes and his friends knew that the King was in Parliament at that time.
They tried to kill the King.
Guards patrolled Parliament on the fifth of November. They caught Guy, who
couldn’t explain why he was there.

They plotted to blow up Parliament and the King with gunpowder.

Francis Tresham wrote a warning letter to his cousin, Lord Monteagle.

People treated Catholic people badly because the Protestant king didn’t like what
they believed in.
Lord Monteagle passed the letter to the King’s guards.

Some friends realised they could kill innocent people. They started having second
thoughts and panicked.
Guy Fawkes and some friends thought about killing the King.

They called it the Gunpowder Plot.

 2. Regular verbs

a) Highlight the verbs of the affirmative statements. What is the general rule to
form the simple past?

b) You notice some differences between the verbs. Put the past forms into the
correct box.
Follow the example.

Regular Infinitive Infinitive Infinitive Infinitive Infinitive Irregular

verbs ending in ending in a ending in a ending in ending in
-e consonant single -l -ic
+y stressed
vowel +
consonant

To play To love To hurry To ban To travel To mimic To wake

→ played → loved → hurried → banned →travelled → → woke
mimicked

+ ed
c) Pronunciation
The pronunciation of words ending in ED depends on the final consonant (sound).
There are three ways to pronounce ED:

/id/ /t/ /d/

T: wanted P: helped G: damaged
D: needed K: looked V: loved
SH: washed Y: enjoyed
GH: laughed …
CH: watched
TH: breathed
SS: kissed
C: danced
X: fixed
After D or T After hissing and voiceless After voiced sounds
sounds

Answer these true or false questions.

True False
Guy Fawkes didn’t behave naughtily X
He behaved naughtily.
Guy Fawkes didn’t know the king would be in Parliament on X
the fifth of November.
He knew the king would be in Parliament.
It wasn’t obvious to call it the Gunpowder Plot. X
It was obvious.
Guy Fawkes couldn’t explain why he was below Parliament. X

Guy Fawkes did not live long after being discovered. He was X
tortured and killed as a warning for future traitors.

 Highlight the verbs in the negative statements. What is the general rule to
form the simple past?
Did + not + Infinitive_______________________________

 You immediately notice some differences between the verbs. Put the forms
into the correct box.
Verbs that follow the general rule Verbs that are irregular
Didn’t know Couldn’t
Didn’t behave Wasn’t
Did not live