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
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Have / the / twins / a nice / English teacher
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They / circus / go / to the / last weekend
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Home / 10 o´clock / at / they / come
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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.
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Elvis Presley died in 1997.
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John Lennon was born in Liverpool
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We went to the concert by taxi.
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No, Celine Dion didn't star in Titanic.
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They gave the Pavarotti CD to Susan.
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John Lennon wrote the song “Imagine”.
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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