Grammar: SIMPLE PAST TENSE

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SIMPLE PAST TENSE

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 Grammar: SIMPLE PAST TENSE

NAME: __________________________ CLASS: _____ NO.: _____ SCORE:

Grammar Section
Choose the best answer !

1. Peter : Anna _______ to class yesterday

Joe : Why ?
Peter : because she was at the hospital.
A. Didn’t come c. didn’t arrive
B. Didn’t enter d. didn’t take

2. David : ___________?
Sylvia : It wasn’t very good
A. How were your weekend?
B. How did your weekend last week?
C. How was your weekend?
D. How is your weekend?

3. David : What was it like?

Sylvia : Well, on Saturday morning I went swimming and I _______ my MP3 player
at the swimming pool.
A. Leaved C. put
B. Left D. set

4. A: Why are there lot of people on the road?

B: There was an accident. Three people ______from wound.
The suitable verb to complete the dialogue is______
A. Suffered C. got
B. Had D. crashed

5. Dylan: Lucy ________ her mother’s watch, so she bought a new one.
Dave : really?
A. Broke C. forgot
B. Crashed D. found

6. Bejo : Do you know Nelson Mandela?

Lucky : Yes, Nelson Mandela ________for the rights of black Africans.
A. Defended C. conquered
B. fought D. survived

7. Ted : How was the match last night?

Ryan: It was terrible. The match ________10 minutes late.
A. Begins C. began
B. Were begun D. begun
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8. Susan : I’m sorry to hear about your granddad. What happened ?

Smith : He _________of old age.
A. Caused C. suffered
B. Died D. got

9. Benjamin hadn’t known the answer to the question so he _________his hand up.
A. Raised C. put
B. Didn’t raise D. didn’t rise

10. Anna : _________Judy and Liz at last month’s meeting?

Dallas: Oh, of course.
A. was C. were
B. did D. have

II. Complete the following text by choosing the verbs are given. Use simple past
Go (2x) - learn – be (3x) – think – have – live – visit – make – get – come – meet – not
know

Akane's Vacation
Last year, I (1 )_______to Portugal just after Christmas. And I (2 )_______there until… well,
just after New Year's this year. In Portugal, I (3 )_______-up with one of my friends from
Toronto. He (4 ) ________ family in Portugal, because his family (5) ________originally
from Portugal.

So, they (6 )________kind enough to let me stay with them. I (7 )________ any Portuguese,
except for some simple words like “hello”, and “thank you”. I (8) _________ some simple
words through an audio CD, before I (9)______ there. And the people that I (10 ) ______with
didn’t know very much English either. However, we (11) _______along surprisingly well.

They (12)______surprised that I was able to eat some of their exotic foods. They (13)
______some delicious meals every single day, like octopus, tripe and rabbit. It is quite exotic,
but I (14) _______ it was quite good. They also (15) ________some excellent desserts, like
crème caramel, and a rich sponge cake that they call Paon d’lo.