GUÍA DE TRABAJO

COLEGIO VILLAS DE SAN JUAN

GIRÓN, SANTANDER AÑO 2022
Curso: Octavo_____ Área: INGLÉS Profesor:
NAME:

SIMPLE PAST TENSE Regular Verbs

C) Fill in the blanks with Simple Past Tense.
A) Write the Past Simple form of the verbs
1) My uncle ------------ ( visit ) us this
1) Play 13) Warn weekend.
2) Walk 14) Wash 2) I ----------- ( listen ) to
3) Watch 15)Try music with my friends.
4) Listen 16)Turn 3) We ---------- ( study ) hard
5) Wait 17)Question for the exam. So, we --------- -- (
6) Check 18)Observe answer )all the questions.
7) Ask 19)Need 4) “----- you -------- ( finish
8) Want 20)Live ) your homework?”
9) Call 21)Laugh “No, I -----------.”
10)Deliver 22)Kill 5) I ----------- ( wait ) for the school bus
11)Decide 23)Kiss but it ------------- ( not-come ).
12)Work 24)Invite 6) Karen ----------- ( ask ) for help to
finish her homework.
7) ----- you --------- ( invite ) them to
B) Give short answers to the questions. your party last week.
1) Did you close the door? 8) Yesterday night, somebody ------------ (
( + )--------------. knock ) at the door. But I -----------
( - )--------------. ( not-open ) it.
2) Did you father wash his car? 9) The students ----------- ( walk ) down
( + )--------------. the street with their teachers.
( - )--------------. 10)Something strange -------------- (
3) Did Marta tidy her room? happen ) last night.
( + )--------------. 11)Tom ----------- ( check ) his answers.
( - )--------------. 12)The postman ------------- ( deliver )
4) Did your mother prepare the dinner? the letters.
( + )--------------. 13)We ----------- ( live ) in Madrid three
( - )--------------. years ago.
5) Did the cleaner finish cleaning? 14)Helen ----------- ( not-study ) for the
( + )--------------. exam and she ----------- ( fail )
( - )--------------.

D) Turn the sentences into negative or question.

1) Clare played tennis this weekend. ( - ) ------------------------------------.

2) David washed his car on Saturday. ( - ) -----------------------------------.

3) Kate finished her homework. ( ? ) ----------------------------------------.

4) All the students answered the questions. (- ) -----------------------------------.

5) Marta waited for the bus. (- ) -------------------------------.

6) Elisa called Sue to go out. ( ? ) ------------------------------.

7) John watched TV all the day. ( ? ) ----------------------------.

DETECTIVE STORIES
8) Alex washed the dishes. ( ? ) --------------------------------.

9) Dorothy invited me to her birthday party.

 The inspector asked Mr. White some
questions:
The Inspector: What were you doing when the
thief broke into the house?
Mr. White: I was watching a movie with my wife.
Then I went to the kitchen to prepare the tea…
The Inspector: How many minutes did you spend in
the kitchen?
Mr. White: I think 10 or 15 minutes… I’m not sure…
The Inspector: Did you only prepare the tea?
Mr. White: Yes.
The Inspector: OK. Thanks.

The inspector also asked Mrs. White some questions:

The Inspector: were you doing when your
husband was in the kitchen?
Mrs. White: While I was watching the movie I was The inspector was suspicious about Mr. White
drinking my coffee. and he asked for him to come to his office. The
The Inspector: Coffee? But your husband was preparing Inspector started questioning:
tea. The Inspector: You weren’t at home when the
Mrs. White: Tea? No… We didn’t drink tea last night. thief broke into your house.
The Inspector: OK. What was he doing in the kitchen? were you?
Mrs. White: He was thirsty. He wanted to drink water. Mr. White: I went out to help a friend of mine.
The Inspector: Hmm. What happened then? The Inspector: Who was he?
Mrs. White: A friend of him called him and he went out Mr. White: A friend…
to help him. The Inspector: Hmmm…
The Inspector: So you were alone at home, weren’t you? Mr. White: I said that he was a friend of mine.
Mrs. White: Yes, I was. I called him immediately but he The Inspector: If you cannot prove that you were
B) Answer
didn’t answer.the questions according with your friend, we will arrest you!
to the story?
1) Did Mrs. White see the thief?
___________________________.
2) What was Mrs. White doing when the
thief broke into the house?
A) Decide True or False?
1) ( ) Mr. White was at home when the event
_______________________________
occurred.
___________.
2) ( ) Mr. White caught the thief but he didn’t
3) Was Mr. White with his wife when the
tell anyone.
thief broke into the house?
3) ( ) Mrs. White was watching the movie while
_______________________________
her husband was drinking water.
___________.
4) ( ) The thief broke into the house while they
4) What was Mr. White doing in the
were sleeping.
kitchen?
5) ( ) Mr. White went out while his wife was
_______________________________
sleeping.
___________.
6) ( ) Mr. White went out to help his friend.
5) Did Mr. White really prepare the tea?
7) ( ) Mrs. White screamed when she saw the
______________________________. At the end of the questionnaire…
thief.
6) Why did Mr. White go out? Mr. White: OK. I will tell everything… Yesterday
_______________________________ night somebody called me but he wasn’t a friend. She
___________. was my darling. I lied to my wife because she needed
7) Did the Inspector believe Mr. White? help. While I was going I saw a man who was very
______________________________. strange. I waited five or ten minutes and I saw him
8) Did Mr. White say who his friend while he was breaking into our house. But I
was? had to go. I went to my darling’s house but she
______________________________. wasn’t there. There was nothing at home. Then I
learnt that she was living with her boyfriend. She
deceived me. They took all our money and ran away…