Teacher: Mr.

Badr Level: 1st Bac

Simple Past: Regular and Irregular verbs and Verb to Be

1. Find the verbs in this text and write them in the boxes.

Hello! I’m Amine and this is my best friend Ali. Yesterday, we

went to the park near my house. We played the guitar and
sang our favorite songs. We brought with us a lot of food but
we didn’t eat it, we only drunk some soda and water. I saw
there Karim. We talked about his birthday and he invited us
to his party. We stayed in the park a couple of hours
because we had a lot of fun with the friends. Actually, I
didn’t want to go back home!

went

didn’t want

 We use the past simple to talk about things we did in the past.
 The past simple ending is -ed for regular verbs: play – played, invite – invited, …
Remember  Irregular verbs have a special form: see – saw, drink – dunk, go – went, ….
 For the negative, don’t change the main verb. Use ‘didn’t’ instead:
play – didn’t play, eat – didn’t eat

2. Match these verbs with their past simple from:

go talked bring drunk

talk Did - didn’t invite brought

do went drink walked
sing sang walk invited

3. Study these examples and try to give the rule of the simple past in the three forms:

Rule: Subject + Verb + ed + ….

Rule: ………………………………………………………………….

Rule: ………………………………………………………………….

4. Complete the chart with the right answer.

 5. Study and learn these rules:

6. Put these following regular verbs in the past simple.

Infinitive Simple past Infinitive Simple past Infinitive Simple past
Act acted Watch watched Listen listened
Clean Help Fix
Stop Close Open
Move Study Smoke
Talk Look Swap
Chat Marry Cancel
7. Verb to ‘’Be’’ in simple past. Study this chart and do the exercise:
 Complete the story (fill in the blanks) with: was or were
It …… a beautiful day. The sun ……… hot and the
sky ……… blue. James and Wendy ….…. on the
beach. They ……..… with their three children. The
children …….. in the sea. The sea ….… a bit cold but
the children ………. very happy. There ……… lots of
other children in the sea too. Some of them…….. in the
water with their parents.

8. Irregular verbs in the simple past.

Irregular verbs are verbs that do not take -ed or -d to be conjugated in the simple past. There
Remembe is NO RULE for irregular verbs and the page 132 on your textbooks includes a list of theses
r verbs in simple past.
The ‘a’ family The ‘ew’ family The ‘o’ family The ‘t’ family The ‘ght’ family ‘no change’
family
Give - Gave Throw -Threw Stand -Stood Feel - Felt Buy - Bought Read
…………………. …………………. …………………. …………………. …………………. ………………….
…………………. …………………. …………………. …………………. …………………. ………………….
…………………. …………………. …………………. …………………. …………………. ………………….
…………………. …………………. …………………. …………………. …………………. ………………….
…………………. …………………. …………………. …………………. …………………. ………………….

9. Put the verbs between brackets in the simple past and correct form affirmative, negative or interrogative.
a. Yesterday, I to school because I by car. (walk, not go)
b. My friend me a new pencil case for my birthday. (give)
c. I my favourite TV programme yesterday. (not watch)
d. We pizza and lemon juice for lunch. (eat, drink)
e. What you last week? (do)
f. My grandparents us last week. (not visit)
g. Last weekend, I an email to my friend. (write)