7B GRAMMAR  past simple: regular verbs

Complete the conversations in the past tense. Use the verbs in brackets.

1 Annie 1
Did you study French at university? (study)
No, I 2
Beth  diden't study did studied did lived
French; I 3 Italian. I 4 in
Rome for six months in my third year. (not study, study, live)
Annie 
Where did you live in Rome? (live)
5

Beth Near the Forum. I rented a house with some Italian students. (rent)
6

Annie  did
7
you talk in Italian all the time? (talk)
Beth Not always, because theywanted to practise their English. But I
8

learned
9
to cook great pasta! (want, learn)

2 Alan 10
did you likeBrazil? (like)
Ben We loved it! We didn't want
11 12
to come home. (love, not want)
Alan  did
13
you travel around the country? (travel)
Ben We didn't travel
(not travel)
14
much, because we were only there for two weeks.

Alan did15
you
stay in hotels? (stay)
Ben No, we stayedwith Brazilian friends. (stay)
16

3 17
Dave  did you watchthe match? Arsenal and Real Madrid? (watch)
Carl No, I didn't .
18

Dave Why not?

Carl 
I 19worked late last night. I didn't finish 20
until 7.00. (work, not finish)
But the match started
Dave  21
at 7.45. (start)
Yeah, but I missed
Carl  22
my train. I didn't arrive 23
home until 9.30.
(miss, not arrive)
Dave 
What a pity! It was a great game.

4 I 24
Sam  called
you three times last night, but you 25 didn't answer
.
(call, not answer)
Lucy Sorry. I was at the cinema with my sister.
And I 26
Sam  texted you, too. Why 27
didn'tyou text me back?
(text, not text)
Lucy 
Because I was angry.
Sam Angry? Why?
didn't talk to me at the party last week. You
Because you 28
Lucy 
chated to Eva for about an hour. (not talk, chat)
29

Sam I didn't chat

30
to Eva for an hour! She had a problem, and she just
wanted
31
to tell me about it. (not chat, want)
A problem? Is that why you dancedwith her for 20 minutes? (dance)
Lucy  32

ACTIVATION
Practise the conversations with a partner.

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