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SIMPLE PAST TENSE EXERCISES. Regular and Irregular Verbs (Past Actions and Activities). REWRITE THE SENTENCES IN THE SIMPLE PAST WITH YESTERDAY. PRESENT

PAST

I use internet. __________________________________________________________ I watch TV __________________________________________________________ Do you listen to the radio? __________________________________________________________ We study English __________________________________________________________ He doesn’t work __________________________________________________________ The movie ends at 7:00 __________________________________________________________ I don’t like the movie __________________________________________________________ Does she smoke? __________________________________________________________ They play tennis __________________________________________________________ COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH A VERB, FIRST IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND THEN IN THE NEGATIVE.

Book

show

help

walk

play

paint

study

work

1. Yesterday Sam walked to work, but he didn’t walk home. 2. I __________________________ Chinese at school, but I _____________________ German and Spanish. 3. The teacher ____________________ me with the exercise, but She _____________________my friend. 4. Bill ___________________________ basketball when he was young, but he __________________ soccer.

5. They _________________________ the tickets but they ________________________ a hotel. 6. We ____________________________ the living room, but we __________________________ the bedroom. 7. The salesperson _________________________ last Saturday, but she ___________________ on Sunday. 8. I __________________ the phone to my sister, but I _____________________ them to my brother. COMPLETE THE QUESTIONS IN THE SIMPLE PAST. Did you go out last night? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

What _________________________________ ? Where ________________________________ ? What __________________________________ ? _____________________________ with you ? What ___________________________ to eat ? What time ____________________________ ? What time ____________________________ ? ___________________________ a good time ?

(you / go out)

(you / wear) (you / go) (you / do) (your sister / go) (you / have ) (the party / end) (you / get home) (you / have)

EXERCISES. Regular and Irregular Verbs (Past Actions and Activities). COMPLETE THE CONVERSATIONS. 1. A: Did you have (have) a good summer? B: Yes, I ____________ . I ________________ (have) a great summer. I just _____________ (relax). 2. A: ___________ you ___________ (go) anywhere last summer? B: No, I ____________ . I _______________ (stay) here. But my friends ________________ (visit) me, and on the weekends we ________________ (go out) a lot. 3. A: ___________ you ___________ (take) any classes last summer? B: Yes, I _____________ . I ______________ (take) tennis lessons, and I ______________ (play) tennis every day! 4. A: ___________ you ____________ (speak) English last summer? B: No, I ______________ . But I _____________ (read) English books and I ______________ (watch) English movies. COMPLETE THE TEXT WITH THE SIMPLE PAST OF THE VERBS. Be careful! There is one extra verb. Get

meet

move

talk

walk write

When I was in year eight, Hannah Barker was my best friend. We ___________________ outside her house at 8:30 every day and __________________ to school together. We ________________ about pop music and television and people at school. In year nine, her family ________________ to Scotland. We __________________ to each other for a few months, but then we stopped. WRITE THE SIMPLE PAST OF THESE VERBS. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

HAVE / HAS SEE TAKE MAKE THINK GIVE READ MEET GET DRINK BUY COME GO WRITE TELL EAT LEAVE

________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________

EXERCISES. The Simple Past Tense. Look at the example and write sentences based on it. EXAMPLE: A. Did you go to the bank this afternoon? (Supermarket) B. No, we didn’t. We went to the supermarket.

go went

1. Did you take the subway this morning? (bus) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Did he have a headache last night? (backache) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Did Wanda get up at 9:00 this morning? (7:00) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Did your children make dinner today? (breakfast) _______________________________________________________________________________________

take took have had get got make made buy boughtw ent

5. Did Michael buy a car yesterday? (bicycle) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Did they do their homework last night? (exercise) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Did Tommy write to his girlfriend this week? (grandmother) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Did you read the newspaper this afternoon? (book) _______________________________________________________________________________________

do did write wrote read read

COMPLETE THE STORY WITH THE CORRECT FORMS OF THE VERBS. BUY EAT

GET GO MAKE

SEE SIT TAKE

SHIRLEY’S DAY OFF Shirley enjoyed her day off yesterday. She ______________________ up late, ______________________ jogging in the park, ______________________ a long shower, and _____________________ a big breakfast. In the afternoon, she _____________________ a movie with her sister. Then she _________________ groceries at the supermarket, and she __________________ a big dinner for her parents. After dinner, Shirley and her parents ___________________ in the living room and talked. Shirley had a very nice day off yesterday.

EXERCISES. The Simple Past Tense. A. COMPLETE THE SENTENCES. USE WAS, WASN’T, WERE, OR WEREN’T. MAKE TRUE SENTENCES. 1. Our school ___________________ open yesterday. It _____________ closed. 2. I ____________ absent yesterday. I _____________ in school. 3. My friend and my teacher _______________ absent last week. They __________ in school. 4. Our English homework _______________ easy yesterday. It _______________ hard. 5. It _____________ sunny yesterday. It _______________ cloudy. B. COMPLETE THE SENTENCES. CHANGE FROM THE PRESENT TO THE PAST. 1. 2. 3. 4.

They are busy now. Last month they were busy too. Today it’s cold. Yesterday _____________________________ too. My friend is in Seoul now. _________________________________ last year too. It’s not sunny today. _______________________________________ yesterday.

5. We are in Lima this week. We _____________________________ yesterday morning. C. WRITE STATEMENTS OR QUESTIONS. USE THE WORDS AND PUNCTUATION GIVEN. 1. in Toronto / He / . / last week / was ___________________________________________________________________________________________ __ 2. cold / . / It / in Toronto / yesterday / was/ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ __ 3. wasn’t / It / two days ago / . / cold ___________________________________________________________________________________________ __ 4. in Toronto / ? / last month / Were / you ___________________________________________________________________________________________ __ 5. weren’t / . / there / we / A week ago ___________________________________________________________________________________________ __ D. CORRECT THIS MESSAGE. THERE ARE SIX MISTAKES. Hi Victor, Right now Bob and I are in a taxi on our way home from the airport. We are in Mexico all last week. It were great. The weather it was dry and sunny. The people were warm and friendly. Last night we was at the Ballet Folklorico. The dancers was terrific. There was only one problem. My Spanish no was good. See you soon. Rina.