Past Tense Simple

1) Complete the sentences in the past tense.

I ______________________________ (go) to the cinema last Saturday.
Kim ______________________________(take) me to a party last Sunday.
He ______________________________(not-come) at school yesterday.
They ______________________________(be) at home doing their homework.
My parents ______________________________(work) in NYC 2 years ago.
I ______________________________(eat) a good cake yesterday.
(Do-help)______________________________ your parents to prepare the meal?
We ______________________________(come) to the meeting last Monday.
Kelly ______________________________(be) an intelligent girl.
Curtis ______________________________(like) to play football.
2) Complete the sentences with ago or the past tense.
I broke the windows ______________________________ (two days).
I ______________________________ (go) to London three years ago.
I ______________________________ (send) a letter to my aunt three days ago.
I drank a soda ______________________________ (two hours).
I ______________________________ (eat) an ice-cream six years ago.
I forgot my copybook ______________________________ (one month).
I ran six kilometres ______________________________ (five days).
I was poor ______________________________ (ten years).
He committed a murder ______________________________ (three years).
I began a puzzle ______________________________ (two days).
3) Complete the text with the past tense.
My aunt Mary _____________________________ a very strange person.
Every day she _____________________________ a new pair of socks
and _____________________________ them to the postman,
thinking he _____________________________ frozen feet.
These socks _____________________________ too long for him
but he _____________________________ anything
because he _____________________________ them for the poor mountain dwellers.
Someday, my aunt _____________________________
why the postman _____________________________ her socks.
She _____________________________ to follow him on a rainy day.
She was very surprised when she _____________________________
that the postman _____________________________ the socks in a container behind
his house.

For the next day, she _____________________________ a pair of very small socks
and _____________________________ them to him, waiting to see what he could
say.
He _____________________________ her
and _____________________________ : 'Do you need a new pair of glasses ?'
3) Complete the text with the past tense.
Joseph Conrad ______________________________(to be) born in 1857 in Ukraine .
He ______________________________(to come) to France when he was seventeen
years old
and he ______________________________(go) to Marseille where his uncle was
living.
Conrad ______________________________(to get) himself a job on a merchant ship
as a cabin-boy on the 'Mont-Blanc'.
For four years,he ______________________________ (to learn) the trade and had a
life of adventure .
He ______________________________ (to visit)South America(Mexico,Venezuela),
and the West Indies .
He ______________________________(to provide) Colombian revolutionaries with
arms.
In 1878, he ______________________________ (to leave) France and signed up for
the Royal Navy .
He ______________________________(to adopt) British nationality and became a
long-haul-captain .
His first command ______________________________(to lead) him to Thaland and
Australia .
Joseph Conrad ______________________________(to begin) writing at the end of
his mission,encouraged by friends .
Gradually,he ______________________________(to become) a famous English
writer ,recognized by Kipling, Russel....
He ______________________________(to write) some novels which described the
South of France.
He ______________________________(to be)inspired by the landscape near Hyres
to write the 'Rover'
and the city of Marseille, where he ______________________________(to live), to
write 'The Arrow of Gold'
He ______________________________(to die) in 1924 near Canterbury, in
Bishopbourne.