TIME TO PRACTISE!

Exercise 1: Choose the right answer.

1. Where ___________________ last winter?

Ûdo you go Ûdid you go Ûwent you

2. He ___________________ his car 3 weeks ago.

Û bought Ûdid buy Ûbuy

3. My mother ___________________ in the country when she was younger.

Ûlive Ûdid live Ûlived

4. I think I ___________________ my glasses in the library.

Û losed Û lost Ûdidn't lose

5. We ___________________ last month.

Û moved in Û move in Ûdid move in

6. How ___________________ you finger?

Û cut you Ûyou cut Ûdid you cut

Exercise 2: Complete the questions:

1.They arrived at 9 o'clock. What time ___________________________________?

2.I skated in the park. Where ___________________________________________?

3.They travelled by plane. How _________________________________________?

4.I arrived late because I missed the bus. Why _____________________________?

5.He wrote the letter yesterday. When ____________________________________?

6.They seemed nice. How _____________________________________________?

7.He gave them a ball. What ___________________________________________?

8.You rented an apartment. What _______________________________________?

Exercise 3: Complete the sentences with the past simple of the verbs in brackets.

• Mary and Sue __________ (do) their homework after lunch.

• Their friends ___________ (come) over after dinner.

• Yesterday they __________ (go) to the cinema.

• They _________ (have) many books to read.

• I _________(see) a movie yesterday.

• Last year, I ____________(travel) to Japan.

• She ___________(wash) her car.

• I ___________(finish) work, _________(walk) to the beach, and_________(find) a nice place to swim.

• I ________(live) in Brazil for two years.

• Shauna _________(study) Japanese for five years.

• They ______(sit) at the beach all day.

• He __________(play) the violin.

• He ___________(not/play) the piano.

• We___________(talk) on the phone for thirty minutes.

• He_________(not/like) tomatoes before.

• She ________(be) shy as a child, but now she is very outgoing.

• I __________(study) French when I was a child.

• She __________(work) at the movie theater after school.

• ______ you _______(live) in Texas when you were a kid?

• He ­­­­­­­­­­__________(not/wash) his car.

• Bob Geldof __________ (organise) the Live Aid concert.

• They _________ (sell) millions of records after the concert.

• Music lovers _______ (be) very generous and _______ (buy) lots of copies.

• They _______ (make) a lot of money for poor people.

• Bruce Springsteen _______ (write) the song “Born in USA”

• We ________ on holidays. (be)

• The weather __________ very cold. ( be)

• It __________. (snow)

• We ___________ sledging. (go)

Exercise 4: Build sentences with the words given and put the verbs in the past simple.

• Easy / test / the / be

• __________________________________________________

• Have / the / twins / a nice / English teacher

• __________________________________________________

• They / circus / go / to the / last weekend

• __________________________________________________

• Home / 10 o´clock / at / they / come

• __________________________________________________

Exercise 5:What's the Past Simple of these regular verbs?

• Try

• Enjoy

• Look

• Record

• Hug

• Refer

Exercise 6:And of these irregular verbs?

• See

• Know

• Make

• Feel

• Write

• Buy

• Get

Exercise 7: Write the questions for the underlined answers:

• Yes, I liked the concert very much.

________________________________________________________________?

• Elvis Presley died in 1997.

________________________________________________________________?

• John Lennon was born in Liverpool

________________________________________________________________?

• We went to the concert by taxi.

________________________________________________________________?

• No, Celine Dion didn't star in Titanic.

________________________________________________________________?

• They gave the Pavarotti CD to Susan.

________________________________________________________________?

• John Lennon wrote the song “Imagine”.

________________________________________________________________?

Exercise 8:Complete the rules.

1. To make the past simple of most irregular verbs we add _____________

2. When verbs end in -e, we add _________________________________

3. When verbs end in -y, we remove the _________________________________

4. When a verb has a short vowel and a consonant, we double the ___________

and add __________________________

Exercise 9: Choose words from the boxes. Complete the question. You can use the words more than once.

1.

- Where _____________ yesterday?

- I was on a school trip.

- ___________________ good?

- It was OK.

2.

- Where _______________ on Saturday?

- I went shopping.

- ____________________ anything?

- Yes, I bought a new coat.

Went buy did go you bought

You it were did was