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Past Tense

The document provides a series of exercises to practice using verbs in the simple past tense. It contains fill-in-the-blank questions and short passages where the reader must supply the correct past tense form of verbs to complete sentences describing events that happened in the past.

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Past Tense

The document provides a series of exercises to practice using verbs in the simple past tense. It contains fill-in-the-blank questions and short passages where the reader must supply the correct past tense form of verbs to complete sentences describing events that happened in the past.

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PAST TENSE I.Complete the questions. 1 I met somebody. Who ..? 2 Harry arrived. What time ..?

3 I saw Bob yesterday. Who ? 4 They wanted something. What .? 5 The meeting ended. What time ? 6 Pat went home early. Why ..home early? 7 We had fish for dinner. What.. for dinner? 8 It cost a lot of money. How much .? 9 He bought a T shirt. What .? 10 We ate ham and eggs. What ..? II. 1 He always goes to work by car. Yesterday he to work by bus. 2 They always get up early. This morning they ..up late. 3 Bill often loses his key. He .one last Saturday. 4 I write a letter to Jane every week. Last week I two letters. 5 She meets her friends every evening. She them yesterday evening, too. 6 I usually read two newspapers every day. I only ..a newspaper yesterday. 7 They come to my house every Friday. Last Friday they.. , too. 8 We usually go to the cinema on Sunday. We .to the cinema last Sunday, too. 9 Tom always has a shower in the morning. Tom .a shower this morning, too. 10 They buy a new car every year. Last year they a new car, too.

11 I eat an orange every day. Yesterday I .two oranges. 12 We usually do our shopping on Monday. We our shopping last Monday, too. 13 Ann often takes photos. Last weekend she some photos. 14 We leave at 8.30 every morning. But yesterday we ..at 8.00.

III. Tell the story fill in the past simple tense On Friday, the children (talk) about a day out together in the country. The next morning, they ..(go) to the country with their two dogs and ..(play) together. Ben and Dave (have) some kites. Some time later the dogs.. (be) not there. So they. (call) them and .(look) for them in the forest. After half an hour the children.. (find) them and .(take) them back. Charlie .(be) very happy to see them again. At lunch time Nick.. (go) to the bikes and.. (fetch) the basket with some meat sandwiches. Then they .(play) football. Nick and Dave .(win). In the evening they (ride) home.

IV. Put the sentences into past tense. 1. She wins the money. She the money. 2. They can eat. They.. eat. 3. She must go. She. go. 4. We go shopping. We ..shopping. 5. She runs to school. She to school. 6. I can walk. I walk. 7. We buy a new car. We a new car. 8. They leave the party. They the party. 9. We collect coins. We .coins. 10. You are allowed to eat. You allowed to eat. 11. Peter eats a hamburger. Peter ..a hamburger.

12. She has to wash it. She.. to wash it. 13. They want to go home. They to go home. 14. I close the windows. I ..the windows. 15. She studies for a test. She. for a test. 16. They can drive. They. drive. 17. Sam likes to laugh. Sam .to laugh. 18. Mary goes home. Mary home. 19. We write a letter. We a letter. 20. She opens the window. She. the window.

V. Fill in the correct simple past forms. The pupils of class 8B (do) a project last week. First the pupils ..(choose) what they wanted to do. Then they (get) information from books and brochures and they (talk) to a lot of people. They .(find) some interesting photos in the library. Their teacher .(help) them when they ..(ask) her. Then they .(make) a poster and a video and (tell) the other groups about their project.

VI. Fill in the correct simple past form. arrange bring choose decide find get go say start Last month Jenny, Nick and Ben ..to do a project together. They .Cornwall. First Jenny.. to a travel agency and some brochures. Nick and Ben. some interesting books in the library. Then they ..work. A week later they all their material to school and ..it on a poster. Your presentation is interesting, Miss Hunt.

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