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WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Fairy Tale Verbs

Activity Type Introduction

Vocabulary and Grammar This story-based verbs worksheet helps students practice common
Exercises: error verbs in the past and present simple.
correction, matching,
binary choice, gap-fill Procedure
Give each student a copy of the two-page worksheet.
Focus
Students start by circling the correct verbs and changing the
Common verbs
verbs that aren't correct in a set of sentences.
Present simple
Exercise A - Answer key
Past simple
1. I like: correct
2. We knock: correct
Aim 3. My mother cook: change cook to cooks
4. Her friend live: change live to lives
To practice common
5. My father have: change have to has
verbs in the past and
6. They never ask before they open: correct
present simple.
7. You answer: correct
8. She wake up: change wake to wakes
Preparation
Students then match present and past forms of verbs that they
Make one copy of the are going to use to complete a story about Goldilocks and the
two-page worksheet for three bears.
each student.
Exercise B - Answer key

Level am, is / was answer / answered are / were

ask / asked break / broke come / came
Pre-intermediate (A2)
cook / cooked decide / decided die / died
eat / ate exclaim / exclaimed get / got
go / went have / had knock / knocked
Time
lie / lay like / liked live / lived
30 minutes open / opened say / said sit / sat
start / started talk / talked wake / woke
walk / walked want / wanted

Next, students circle the correct verbs in bold to complete the

first part of the Goldilocks story.

Exercise C - Answer key

1. is 2. got 3. was 4. goes

5. cooks 6. likes 7. wasn't 8. started
9. was 10. died 11. had 12. decided
13. walked 14. came 15. knocked 16. answered
17. opened 18. went

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WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Fairy Tale Verbs

Activity Type Procedure continued

Vocabulary and Grammar After that, students continue with a gap-fill exercise where they
Exercises: error complete the second part of the story with verbs from a box in
correction, matching, their present or past simple form.
binary choice, gap-fill
Exercise D - Answer key

Focus 1. was 2. went 3. were 4. ate

Common verbs 5. is 6. exclaimed 7. ate 8. is
9. exclaimed 10. ate 11. is 12. said
Present simple 13. ate 14. wanted 15. went 16. sat
17. was 18. sat 19. was 20. broke
Past simple 21. sat 22. was 23. was 24. went
25. was 26. was 27. was 28. lay
29. ate 30. sat 31. broke 32. is
Aim 33. woke 34. live 35. said 36. have
37. died 38. asked 39. live 40. want
To practice common
41. talked 42. decided 43. has 44. has
verbs in the past and
45. lived
present simple.

Preparation
Make one copy of the
two-page worksheet for
each student.

Level
Pre-intermediate (A2)

Time
30 minutes

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WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Fairy Tale Verbs

A. Circle the correct verbs and change the verbs that aren't correct.

1. I like porridge. 5. My father have an adopted brother.

2. We knock loudly on the door. 6. They never ask before they open the door.

3. My mother cook pancakes. 7. You answer a lot of questions in class.

4. Her friend live in Italy. 8. She wake up at 6:00 a.m. every morning.

B. Draw a line between the present and the past form of each verb.

Present Past Present Past

am, is cooked have started

answer asked knock liked
are exclaimed lie lived
ask decided like wanted
break died live walked
come answered open talked
cook went say opened
decide was sit knocked
die ate start woke
eat got talk had
exclaim came wake sat
get were walk said
go broke want lay

C. Circle the correct verbs in bold to complete the first part of the Goldilocks story.

Goldilocks (1) is / was now an 8-year old girl with long, golden hair. She

(2) get / gets / got her name when she (3) is / was a baby because of her

hair colour. On weekdays, she (4) go / goes / went to school with her adopted

brother Gary. On Saturdays, she (5) cook / cooks / cooked pancakes at

breakfast time for her family. And on Sundays, she (6) like / likes / liked to play in the forest.

Her life (7) isn't / wasn't like this before. She (8) start / starts / started to go to school

when she (9) is / was 6 years old. A year later, her parents (10) die / dies / died. She (11)

have / has / had nobody to take care of her.

One day, she (12) decide / decides / decided to walk in the forest. She (13) walk / walks

/ walked for about 15 minutes, and then she (14) come / comes / came to a house. She (15)

knock / knocks / knocked on the door, but nobody (16) answer / answers / answered.

She (17) open / opens / opened the door and (18) go / goes / went in.

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WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Fairy Tale Verbs

D. Fill in the gaps with the verbs from the box in their past or present simple form to
complete the second part of the Goldilocks story. You can use the verbs more than once.

are ask break decide die eat exclaim go have

is lie live says it talk wake want

Goldilocks (1) .................... hungry, so she (2) .................... to the

kitchen. On the table, there (3) .................... three bowls of porridge.

She (4) .................... porridge from the first bowl. "It (5) ....................

too hot!", she (6) ..................... Then, she (7) .................... porridge

from the second bowl. "It (8) .................... too cold!", she (9) ..................... Finally, she

(10) .................... porridge from the third bowl. "It (11) .................... just right", she (12)

...................., and she (13) .................... all the porridge in that bowl.

Goldilocks (14) .................... to sit down, so she (15) .................... to the living room. She

(16) .................... on the first chair, but it (17) .................... too big. She (18) ....................

on the second chair. It (19) .................... too small, and it (20) .................... into pieces.

Then, she (21) .................... on the third chair. It (22) .................... just right.

After that, Goldilocks (23) .................... tired, so she (24) .................... upstairs to lie

down. The first bed (25) .................... too hard, and the second bed (26) .................... too

soft. The third bed (27) .................... just right. She (28) .................... down on it to sleep.

Then, three bears came home. "Someone (29) ....................

my porridge!", exclaimed Papa Bear. "Someone (30) ....................

on my chair and (31) .................... it!", exclaimed Gary, the

baby bear. "Someone (32) .................... in my bed right now!",

exclaimed Mama Bear.

Goldilocks (33) .................... up. "Where do you (34)

....................?", asked Mama Bear. Goldilocks (35) ...................., "I (36) .................... no

home. My parents (37) ....................."

Gary (38) ...................., "Can she (39) .................... with us? I (40) .................... a

sister." Mama and Papa Bear (41) .................... about it. They (42) .................... that

Goldilocks could live with them. So now, she (43) .................... a new family, and Gary Bear

(44) .................... a sister. They all (45) .................... happily ever after.

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