The simple past tense (Irregular

verbs)
 Past Forms
• Here are some action words and some past
tense forms.
● give = gave ● feed = fed ● sit = sat
● stand = stood ● fly = flew ● write = wrote
● go = went ● say = said ● buy = bought
 Past Forms
• Stand- Stood
• Feed- Fed
• Buy- Bought
• Give- Gave
• Go- Went
• Teach- Taught
• Write- Wrote
• Say- Said
 Past Forms
• Spend- Spent
• Take- Took
• See- Saw
• Get- Got
• Come- Came
• Eat- Ate
• Sing- Sang
 Exercise 1
• Complete these sentences with the past tense forms of the action
words in the brackets.
• 1. Raisa stood for a long time at the gate. (stand)
• 2. Mother __________ the birds in the garden last Sunday. (feed)
• 3. I bought a ______________ from the balloon seller today. (buy)
• 4. Father _________ me a storybook for my birthday. (give)
• 5. Sharmin ____________ to school by bus. (go)
• 6. Our teacher ______________ us how to draw an elephant. (teach)
• 7. Arif ___________ a letter to his grandfather yesterday. (write)
• 8. Naim _________ that he was not feeling well today.(say)
 Exercise 2
• Change the action words in colour into their simple
past tense forms.
• Last year, I 1 went (go) to Rajshahi on holiday with my
parents. We 2 ________ (spend) a lot of time together.
We 3 __________ (take) pictures of interesting places
every day. We 4 _____________ (buy) many gifts. In the
evenings, we 5 ________ (go)to the beach. One evening,
we 6 ________ (see) a beautiful rainbow. I 7 _________
(send) my grandmother a picture postcard from there.
She was really happy when she 8 ___________ (get) it!