English activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, with questions about Past simple_Regular and Irregular verbs.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
A – THEY WATCH television every evening. – simple present
THEY WATCHED television yesterday evening – past simple
WATCHED in the past simple:
I – WE – YOU – THEY – HE – SHE – IT = WATCHED
B – The past simple is often – ed (regular verbs). For example:
work – worked clean – cleaned dance – danced
enjoy- enjoyed This morning I cleaned my teeth.
Peter worked in a bank from 2000 to 2020.
We enjoyed the party last night. We danced a lot and talked to a lot of people.
Spelling:
try – tried study-studied copy – copied stop – stopped plan-planned
C- Some verbs are irregular ( = not regular). The past simple is not –ed. Here are some important irregular verbs:
Begin-began / Break-broke / Bring-brought / Build – built
Buy – bought / Catch – caught / Come – came / Do – did
Drink – drank / Eat – ate / Fall – fell / Find – found
Fly – flew / Forget – forgot / Get – got / Give – gave
Go – went / Have – had / Hear – heard / Know – Knew
Leave – left / Lose – lost / Make – made / Meet – Met
Pay – paid / Put – put / Read – read / Ring – rang
Say – Said / See – saw / Sell – sold / Sit – sat
Sleep – slept / Speak – spoke / Stand – stood / Take – took
Tell – told / Think – thought / Win – won / Write – wrote
I usually get up early but this morning I got up at 9:30.
1) Complete the sentences. Use one of these verbs in the past simple:
clean – die – enjoy – finish – happen – open – rain – start – stay – want
a) I cleaned my teeth three times yesterday.
b) It was hot in the room so I __________the window.
c) The concert __________at 8:30 and_________________ at 10 o'clock.
d) When I was a child, I ________to be a doctor.
e) The accident _________last Sunday afternoon.
f) It´s a nice day today but yesterday it __________ all day.
g) We ___________our holiday last year. We___________ at a very nice place.
h) Paul's grandfather______ when he was 95 years old.
2) Complete the sentences. Put the verbs in the correct form:
a) Jonas always goes to work by car. Yesterday he went to work by car.
b) Rachel often loses her Keys. She _____ her Keys last week.
c) Karen meets her friends with her every evening. She______her friends yesterday evening.
d) I usually buy three newspapers every day. Yesterday I _______three newspapers.
e) We usually go to the cinema on Sundays. Last Sunday we_______ to the cinema.
f) I eat an orange every day. Yesterday I _____an orange.
g) Ann always has a shower in the morning. This morning he _____a shower.
h) Our friends come to see us every Friday. They________last Friday.
3) Write the simple past of these verbs:
a) get:
b) see:
d) play:
e) pay:
f) visit:
g) buy:
h) go:
i) think:
j) know:
k) put:
l) speak:
m) of:
Per Rosiane Fernandes – Graduated in Letters and graduated in Special Education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
