3 OPTIMISE YOUR GRAMMAR | Higher A2

Past simple: regular verbs, Wh- words Morning:

1 Write sentences about what Katrina did Shopping:
and didn’t do yesterday. bananas, apples, oranges ✓
1 play tennis ✓ chicken ✗
 Lunch with Sam at Claro Coffee ✓
2 bake a cake ✗
Afternoon:

3 visit her friends ✗
video games ✗

homework in library ✓
4 watch TV ✓ Evening:
 see grandparents ✓
5 start a new project ✓
 1 Dev              shopping in
the morning.
2 Use the prompts to write questions in the 2 He              fruit, but he
past simple.              chicken.
1 who / you / talk to / yesterday / ? 3 Then he              Sam at Claro
 Coffee and they              lunch.
2 when / he / start / his current job / ? 4 In the afternoon, he             
 video games.
3 why / they / not like / this town / ? 5 He              his homework in
the library, and he              a
 new book to read.
4 where / Alicia / stay / at the moment / ? 6 Later, he              his
 grandparents. They             
5 whose / exhibition / you / enjoy / most / last happy to see him.
month / ?
 Unit round-up
Past simple: irregular verbs 5 Complete the text with the correct past
simple form of the verbs in the box.
3 Tick the two correct sentences. Underline eat | not have | go | make | open
the mistakes in the other sentences and
not want | not write | think
correct them.
1 What did you ate for dinner last
night?             
2 Joe didn’t thought the restaurant was open The Real Junkfood Café
today.             
In 2013, a chef called Adam Smith (1)       
3 The girls went shopping and then they baked a a small café in the city of Leeds. He asked
cake.              restaurants and shops to give him food they didn’t
4 Dad maked a healthy salad for lunch want and he (2)        fresh and healthy
today.              meals with it. He (3)        any prices on
5 Did you get vegetables from the market on the menu. He just asked people to pay what they
Sunday?              felt they could. And if they (4)        any
money, they could help in the café. Some people
6 We readed three books about European history
washed dishes, others cleaned the floor and
last year.             
some (5)        to collect the food.
4 Complete the sentences about what Dev did Lots of people (6)        it was a great
and didn’t do using the information in the idea, and in its first year over 10,000 people
(7)        a meal in the café and they used
list and the past simple forms of the verbs
over 20 tonnes of food that shops and other
in the box below. places (8)        . Today, there are more
be | buy (× 2) | choose | do | go than a hundred similar cafés across Britain and
in other countries including France, Germany,
have | meet | play | see
Australia, Poland and the USA.

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