1 2 3

1 4

10

COMPLETE CROSSWORDS 1 AND 2 WITH THE PAST SIMPLE OR THE PAST

PARTICIPLE OF THE CORRECT VERBS.
ACROSS DOWN

1 The children XXXXX the ball over the
fence.
4 Have you ever XXXX your sister’s
shoes?
5 When I was a teenager I XXXX my hair
in a ponytail.
6 Have you XXXXX your tablet to school?
8 He has to walk to school because his
bicycle has been XXXXXX
9 Has he ever XXXX across the Atlantic
ocean?
10 We XXXX a lot of photos when we
were on holiday.
1 When they left, I noticed some
pages had been XXXX out of the book.
2 This is the first complaint letter that
I’ve XXXXXXX.
3 She XXXX her skirt on the ladder
as she tried to get a book from the
the shelf
5 Which year was it that Germany XXX
the World Football championship?
7 Jim XXXX up with a splitting
headache.
8 He says his grandfather XXXX across
the English Channel in 1955.
9 His last film was XXXX on location in
South Africa.
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2 2

6 7
ACROSS
2 She came in and XXX down next to me.
3 Have you ever XXXX at karaoke?
5 The teacher XXXXX the students up
into three groups
8
6 I XXXXXXXXXX your question but I
can’t answer it.
8 The reporter XXXXX French during
9 the interview.
9 Her ankles hurt because she XXXXX
up for a long time at the bus stop.
10 Here’s your pen. I XXXX it by mistake.

10

DOWN

1 We XXXX many country songs at her

party.
3 The policeman XXXX to kill. It wasn’t
an accident.
4 She XXXXXX me her new DVDs when
I visited her.
5 On this map, dangerous areas are
XXXXX in grey.
7 Toast is usually eaten with butter or
jam XXXXXX over it.
9 Have you XXXX the doors and
windows?
The verbs used in both puzzles are:

shoot, show, shut, sing, sit, speak, split, spread, stand, steal, swim, take, tear, throw,
understand, wake, wear, win, write

It’s your choice to let them know which verbs they’ll be dealing with beforehand.

CROSSWORD 1
1 2 3

T H R E W T

O R W O R N
5

W O R E I R
6

O N T A K E N

N T
7

W E
8

S T O L E N

W K

A E
9

S W U M

O
10

T O O K
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