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SUBJECT: Simple Past Tense A) Fill in The Blanks With A Verb From The Box in The SIMPLE PAST

This document contains an English lesson about the simple past tense. It includes exercises filling in blanks with simple past verbs, rewriting sentences in the simple past, and answering comprehension questions about a short story in the simple past. The story is about a sailor named Bob who returns home from a voyage and falls in love with his new neighbor's daughter. He promises to send her gifts from ports he visits.

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SUBJECT: Simple Past Tense A) Fill in The Blanks With A Verb From The Box in The SIMPLE PAST

This document contains an English lesson about the simple past tense. It includes exercises filling in blanks with simple past verbs, rewriting sentences in the simple past, and answering comprehension questions about a short story in the simple past. The story is about a sailor named Bob who returns home from a voyage and falls in love with his new neighbor's daughter. He promises to send her gifts from ports he visits.

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ANA CAROLINA ALFARO 2236342 ASESORIA COMERCIAL –INGLES

SUBJECT : Simple Past Tense

A) Fill in the blanks with a verb from the box in the SIMPLE PAST:

break swim have make sit write


spend buy drink lose wash

1. She …Made….. a cake an hour ago.


2. She …Bought.. a hat last week.
3. The boy …Wrote.. a letter yesterday.
4. They …Swam . in the sea for an hour.
5. They …Drank .. a lot of Coke last night.
6. She …Broke her arm last week.
7. He…Spent…. all his money last week.
8. She …Had…… a bath two minutes ago.
9. He …Lost…. his wallet last night.
10. She …Sat.. On the old chair a minute ago.
11. She …Washed….. the clothes yesterday.

B) Fill in the blanks with the SIMPLE PAST of the verbs in brackets:

Last Saturday my father …. took…. (take) my friends and me to the circus. We …


Saw…(see)
lots of things. My father …Bought……. (buy) us some popcorn and orange juice. We
Ate... (Eat) the popcorn and …Drank… (Drink) the orange juice.
We ..Laughed….. (laugh) at the funny clowns. There …Was…. (be) a lion-tamer.
The lions …Did… (do) tricks; they …Jumped…… (Jump) through hoops. A girl ……
Rode…. (ride) an elephant around the ring. We all …Had…… (Have)
a wonderful time.

C) Write what Jean DID or DIDN’T do yesterday:

go shopping ( - ) ………… Jean didn’t go shopping yesterday.


…………….
clean the house ( + ) Jean Did Clean The House
………………………………………………………………
feed the cat ( + ) Jean Did Feed The Cat .
………………………………………………………………
telephone Mary ( - ) Jean Didn´t Telephone Mary
………………………………………………………………
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watch a film on TV ( - ) Jean Didn´t Watch A Film On TV


………………………………………………………………
visit her grandparents ( + ) Jean Did Visit Her Grandparents
………………………………………………………………
take them a cake ( + ) Jean Did Take Them A Cake
………………………………………………………………

D) Fill in the blanks with the PAST form of the verbs:

Benjamin Franklin …… was born ….. (be born) in Boston in 1706. He …Was…… (be)
the fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor candlemaker. He …Went…(go ) to school
only one year. He …Began…… (begin) to work when he was twelve. At the age of
fourteen he …Decided…… (decide) to be a writer. He …Copied...
(copy) the great stories of famous writers and later he …Became…… (become) the best
known writer in his time.
When he …Was….. (be) seventeen, he …Left…… (leave) Boston and
…Arrived… (arrive) in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his pocket. He
…Got… (get) a job as a publisher of a newspaper and …Retired…. (retire)
from business as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he …Spent…. (spend) the next forty
years for his government. He …Played……. (play) an important role in the founding of the
USA.
Franklin …Was (be) also an important scientist and inventor. He …Drew…. (draw)
electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He ……Wrote…… (write) one of the first text
books on electricity. He …Invented…… (invent) a simple lightning rod and many other
practical tools. He.. Made…… (make) a study of water and …Discovered……….
(discover) many principles of hydrodynamics. He even ……Invented…… (invent) bifocal
glasses when he was seventy-eight and …Needed…… (need) them himself.
Franklin ..Did… (do) all these things and many more because he …Believed………
(believe) he ..Could…… (can).

E) Read the following story:

Bob is a young sailor. He lives in England, but he is often away with his ship.
One summer he comes back from a long voyage and finds new neighbors near his
mother’s house. They have a pretty daughter, and Bob soon loves her and he wants to
marry her when he comes back. Bob promises the girl to send a present from every port.
Bob’s first port is Capetown in Africa, and he sends the girl a parrot from there. The
parrot speaks three languages. When Bob’s ship reaches Australia, a letter comes from the
girl. The letter says, “Thank you for the parrot, Bob. It tasted much better than a chicken.”

a) Write the story again. Use THE SIMPLE PAST:


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Bob was a young sailor. He lived in England, but he was often away with his ship
One summer he came back from a long voyaged and finds new neighbors near his mother´s
house. They had a pretty daughter, and bob soon loves her and he wanted to marry her
when he came back. Bob promised the girl to send a present from every port. Bob´s first
port was capetown in Africa, and he sent the girl a parrot from there. The parrot spoke three
languages. When bob´s ship reached Australia, a letter came from the girl. The letter said,
thank you for the parrot, bob. It tasted much better than a chicken
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………

b) Answer the questions about the story:

1. What was Bob?


He was a young sailor.
2. What change did he find when he was back home?
……he finds new neighbors near his mother´s house
…………………………………………………………………………………..
3. How was their daughter?
………they have a pretty daughter
………………………………………………………………………………..
4. How did Bob feel about the girl?
…………bob soon loves her and wants to marry her
……………………………………………………………………………..
5. What did Bob tell the girl?
………………to send you a gift from all ports
………………………………………………………………………..
6. What did Bob send the girl from Capetown?
……………A parrot
………………………………………………………………………….
7. Where is Capetown?
………In Africa
…………………………………………………………………………

8. How many languages did the parrot speak?


……………the parrot speaks three languages
………………………………………………………………………

9. What did the girl do with the parrot?


…………………………the girl eats the parrot
…………………………………………………………
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