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Past Simple

The document provides examples and exercises for using verbs in the simple past tense in English. It includes examples of filling in missing verbs, forming questions, and completing short passages using simple past verbs. The focus is on conjugating regular and irregular verbs into their simple past forms in both affirmative and negative constructions.

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Past Simple

The document provides examples and exercises for using verbs in the simple past tense in English. It includes examples of filling in missing verbs, forming questions, and completing short passages using simple past verbs. The focus is on conjugating regular and irregular verbs into their simple past forms in both affirmative and negative constructions.

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PAST SIMPLE

1 Fill in the missing verbs. Use the simple past form of the verbs in brackets.
1 Yesterday I ______________ to school by bus. (go)
2 Last year we _______________ in Spain. (be)
3 Bob ________________ his friend a few minutes ago. (phone)
4 They ______________ very happy. (be)
5 I ___________ her yesterday. (see)
6 He ________________ her flowers. (bring)
7 Betty ___________ her homework in the evening. (do)
8 Last night Sita and Ben ______________ TV. (watch)
9 Yesterday my mum _______________ shopping. (go)
10 Last week I ______________ my bike. (clean)

2 Fill in the missing verbs. Use the simple past form of the verbs in brackets.
Be careful: sometimes you need the negative form.
1 Last night I ________________ (go) to a dance club, but I ___________________
(not go) to the cinema. 2 I ____________ (see) elephants when I ___________ (be)
in Africa last year, but I
_____________________ (not see) any giraffes. 3 Peter _________________ (phone) his
parents a few minutes ago. 4 Last week Ben _______________ (want) to buy a new
computer, but he _______________________ (not find) any. 5 Yesterday Sita
_________________ (play) chess with C1B1. Sita _______________________ (not win),
but C1B1 _______________ (win).
6 Yesterday Susan ___________________________ (not catch) her school bus, so she
_______________ (go) to school by bike. 7 Last year the Ahmed family
_______________ the whole summer in Turkey. (spend) 8 Bob ________________ his
friend a few minutes ago. (phone)
9 They ______________ very happy. (be) 10 Last year the pupils
_______________________ (not learn) their words carefully, so there
________________ (be) always a lot of mistakes in the vocabulary tests. 11 I
___________ her yesterday. (see) 12 He ________________ her flowers. (bring) 13
Betty ___________ her homework in the evening. (do) 14 Last night Sita and Ben
______________ TV. (watch) 15 Yesterday my mum _______________ shopping. (go) 16
Last week I ______________ my bike. (clean) 17 Mr Soll
____________________________ (not find) many mistakes in the last English test, so
he _______________ (be) very happy. 18 When the Ahmed family _______________ (come)
to England, they ____________________ (not have) a job at the beginning. 19 And
they __________________ (not have) many friends either. 20 At first the people
__________________________ (not like) them, but later they ___________________
(accept) them.

3 Questions in the simple past: Ask for the underlined parts.


a) They lived in London.
_____________________________________________________________?
b) Megan moved in 1998.
_____________________________________________________________?
c) They moved to London because her mum died.
_____________________________________________________________?

4 Fill in the missing verbs. Use the simple past form of the verbs in brackets.
Be careful: sometimes you need the negative form.

Holmes and Watson ________________ (stop). They ____________ (look) into a small,
dark street. First they ____________________ (not hear) anything. But then Holmes
____________ (hear) a loud noise. “Over there,” he ___________ (say), and he
______________ (point) at a small gate between the houses. The two men
______________ (watch) the gate for a few minutes, but they _______________________
(not see) anything. But after a few minutes they ___________ (see) a little grey
dog running away.
5 Complete the text. Use the past simple form.
Last month we ___________ (do) a project about the USA. First, we all __________
(go) to the library to find information. I ____________ (read) some interesting
things about Christopher Columbus. Natalie ____________ (study) a text about George
Washington. Other pupils ________________ (write) about Hollywood. Lucy and David
________________ (collect) photos. Our team _______________ (draw) pictures for a
comic about the “Wild West”. We __________________ (finish) our project in a week.

6 Complete the text. Use the past simple form.


Last year we __________________ (travel) to Italy. We ___________ (meet) lots of
tourists there. We ________________ (stay) at a big hotel. Everyday we __________
(go) to the beach. One day I _______________ (hear) an English family near us. I
_____________ (make) friends with the boy. He ____________ (speak) a little German.
We often ____________ (talk) in German and in English.

7 Choose the appropriate question words and form the questions to the answers.
Form the questions in the simple past.
How Where When What Who What
time Why How long
1 _________________________________________________________________?
We moved house last month.
2 _________________________________________________________________?
We moved because our old house was too small.
3 _______________________________________________________________?
We went to London.
4 _______________________________________________________________?
It only took one day.
5 ________________________________________________________________?
We started at five o´clock in the morning.
6 ________________________________________________________________?
My brothers and sisters helped us.
7 ________________________________________________________________?
We took everything – our furniture, our clothes and our dog.
8 ________________________________________________________________?
Oh, I felt a little sad.

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