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COLEGIO ENTRE NUBES SUR ORIENTAL

REGULAR VERBS GUIDE No 1- GRADE NINTH
NAME:____________________________

13 GRAMMAR

Warm-up
1

Underline the correct verb.

Use the Mini-dictionary to

Past Simple affirmative: regular verbs

How do these verbs end in the Past Simple?

help you.
use, play, study, start, like, help, carry, watch, travel, live,
stop

1 In 1834 Charles Babbage builds/invents/suggests the

idea of building a computer to solve problem<:.
2 Konrad Zuse builds/invents/suggests the first
computer in Germany a hundred years later.
3 In Manchester University, Fred Williams leads a team
that builds/invents/suggests the world's first
commercial computer in 1951.

Write your answers in the correct column:

+d
used

Make nouns from these verbs. Use the nouns in

+ed

+ed

+ied

+ledjped

Past Simple

Write these regular verbs in the Past Simple.

your own sentences.

discover, explore, invent, suggest

Complete the clues and find the word in the

shaded box.

I I

I I

15
6

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_

19
1 When did Copernicus

__

the solar system?

3 The end of the Berlin Wall was a major

4 Why do people want to
5 In which

__

__
_

1543.

2 I think it was

__

__

were computers developed?

__

twentieth

7 What do you think was an important event in

8

__
_

space?

6 Zuse invented the first computer in

century.

What happened

__

9 When did men first

11 September, 2001?
on the moon?

The famous Russian

dancer, Vaslav
Nijinsky, (1) lived
(live) from 1890 to
1950. As a small
child, he (2)
(learn) dancing from
his father. At the
Nijinsky's home,
Vaslav (3)
(dance) with his
brother and his little sister. At the age of nine, he
(move) to St Petersburg and (5)
(4)
(start) dance lessons at the Imperial School of Dancing.
He (6)
(study) dancing for eight years with
Russia's top ballet teachers. Between 1909 and 1917, he
(travel) in Europe, the United States and
(7)
(marry) Romola in
South America. He ( 8)
Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1913. Between 1919 and
(live) in Switzerland, France and
1950 he ( 9 )
(die) in London in 1950.
England. He (10 )

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Past simple | Regular verbs exercises

Exercise 1
Put the regular verbs in the correct category:
cry
enjoy
care

like
label
bury

stop
agree
use

wait
marry
jog

stay
explain
clap

fail
hop
prefer

- d only

- ed only

- ied

double consonant + - ed

lived

cleaned

studied

shopped

Exercise 2
Complete the story with the correct forms the verbs in brackets.
A young man aged 13 .............................. the Simpson Bank in Motown yesterday night. (rob)
He ........................... his toy gun and ............................. by his father's red BMW. (use | travel)
He ........................... the money in his sister's school bag. (carry) The young man .....................
to his grandma's garden to hide the money there. (hurry) When he .......................... the garden,
he could see a policeman. (enter) The policeman ..................... to chase him. (start) The young
man ....................... the bag with the money. (drop) - Suddenly, he could hear his telephone.
"Bob, are you still asleep?"
"Oh, mum. I had a terrible dream!"

0 EXERCISE 1 1 . Sentence practice.

Directions: Complete the sentences. Use the words in the list. Use the simple
present or the simple past.
ask
cook
dream
l . It often
2. I

erase

smile

walk

.!rain
shave

stay
wait

watch
work

rains

in the morning. It

______

rained

'-=-'
"'--'-=
=--

to school every morning. I

yesterday.

______

to

school yesterday morning.

3 . Sue often

______

questions. She

______

question in class yesterday.

4. I

------

______

5.

Mike

a movie on television last night. I usually

TV in the evening because I want to improve my English.

------

______

6. I usually

his own dinner yesterday evening. He

his own dinner every evening.

______

______

home at night because I have to study. I

home last night.

7. I have a job at the library.

______

at the library every evening.

there yesterday evening.

8. When I am asleep, I often

------

about my family last night.*

9. Linda usually

------

apartment building. She

for the bus at a bus stop in front of her

------

for the bus there yesterday

morning.
10. The teacher

______

some words from the board a couple of

minutes ago. He used his hand instead of an eraser.

"The past of dream can be dreamed or dreamt.

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