PAST TENSE CONTRAST

SIMPLE PAST PAST PROGRESSIVE PAST PERFECT

regular: was, were +infinitive + -ing had + past participle*

infinitive + ed
irregular:
2nd column of the irregular
verbs

PAST SIMPLE

1- Put the verbs into the simple past:

a- Last year I (go) _______ to England on holiday.
b- It (be) _______ fantastic.
c- I (visit) _______ lots of interesting places.
d- I (be) ________ with two friends of mine.
e- In the mornings we (walk)_______ in the streets of London.
f- In the evenings we (go) _______ to pubs.
g- The weather (be) _______ strangely fine.
h- It (not / rain) _______ a lot, But we (see) _______some beautiful rainbows.
i- Where (spend / you) _______ your last holiday?

2- Write the past forms of the irregular verbs.

INFINITIVE SIMPLE PAST

1 Meet
2 Drive
3 Speak
4 Put
5 Write
6 Sing
7 Do
8 Sit
9 Stand
10 Run
 3- Complete the table in simple past.

AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE INTERROGATIVE

He wrote a book.
He did not sing
Was she pretty?

PAST PROGRESSIVE
1- Put the verbs into the correct form (past progressive).

1- When I phoned my friends, they (play) were playing monopoly.

2- Yesterday at six I (prepare) _____________dinner.

3- The kids (play) _____________in the garden when it suddenly began to

rain.

4- I (practise) _____________the guitar when he came home.

5- We (not / cycle)______________ all day.

6- While Aaron (work) ______________in his room, his friends (swim)

_____________ in the pool.

7- I tried to tell them the truth but they (listen / not) _____________

8- What (you / do) ______________ yesterday?

9- Most of the time we (sit) ________________ in the park.

2- Write correct sentences:

1- My mother / read / a novel _______________________________

2- My father / watch / a movie _______________________________

3- My elder sister / writing / in her diary

_______________________________
 4- My two brothers / listen / to the radio
_______________________________

5- My little sister and I / not / watch / a movie

____________________________________

6- We / talk / about school _______________________________

PAST PERFECT

1- Put the verbs into the correct form (past perfect simple).

a- The storm destroyed the sandcastle that we (build) had built.

b- He (not / be) ______________to Cape Town before 1997.

c- When she went out to play, she (do / already)_____________ her homework.

d- My brother ate all of the cake that our mum (make) ________________.

e- The doctor took off the plaster that he (put on) ______________six weeks
before.

f- The waiter brought a drink that I (not / order) _________________.

g- I could not remember the poem we (learn)________________ the week

before.

h- The children collected the chestnuts that (fall) ________________from the

tree.

i- (he / phone) ________________Angie before he went to see her in London?

j- She (not / ride) ________________a horse before that day.