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The Simple Past describes an action which started and finished in

the past. It is often used with time expressions like yesterday,
last, ago .

Form

Affirmative
Regular Verbs

I/he/she/it
verb+ ed
forms
We/you/they
Negative
(Regular and Irregular

Irregular

Irregular past

verbs)

I/he/she/it
We/you/they

did not (didn't)

verb

Questions (Regular and Irregular

Did

I/he/she/it
We/you/they

Uses

The Past Simple is used:

To talk about a completed action that took place

at a definite time in the past.
To refer to several actions that happened one
after another in the past.
To describe past habits.

verb?

A) Complete with was /were /wasnt / werent.

________ the weather fine last week?

He _______ at home yesterday evening. He went to the cinema.

__________ you in England last year?

They ________ in France last summer. They visited Italy.

Where ______ Dan and Simon yesterday?

B) Write the Simple Past of the verbs in brackets.

The Scotts ___________ (live) in Oxford last year.

She ________ (go) to Natural History Museum.

I ________ (study) Maths yesterday.

Mark and Steve ______ (see) Jane in the street.

I ________ (write) a letter to my parents.

We _________ (stop) at the railway station.

We ________ (visit) our grandmother last Sunday.

Grandfather ______ (tell) us a story.

He ______ (fall) from the tree.

She ______ (give) him a present.

C) Make these sentences negative:

She drank a glass of milk._________________________

We arrive late to school. _________________________

Jane ate a big ice-cream. _________________________

My father went to London. ________________________

I ran to school.

_________________________

D) Write questions:

Where / you / go / last night

_________________________________

She / have/ an accident.

_________________________________

When / they / arrive

_________________________________

You / read / the newspaper

_________________________________

What time / he / came

_________________________________

E) Complete with past time adverbials.

Today is Tuesday. ___________ was Monday.

This month is April. March was _________________.

This year is 2008. the year 2006 was _____________.

Today is May 3rd. may 1st was ___________________.

Today is Saturday. Last Saturday was ____________.