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SUBJECT: Simple Past Tense A) Fill in The Blanks With A Verb From The Box in The SIMPLE PAST

This document provides instruction on using simple past tense verbs in English. It includes examples of filling in blanks with simple past verbs, conjugating verbs into their simple past form, writing statements using affirmative and negative forms of simple past verbs, and rewriting a short story in the simple past tense.

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SUBJECT: Simple Past Tense A) Fill in The Blanks With A Verb From The Box in The SIMPLE PAST

This document provides instruction on using simple past tense verbs in English. It includes examples of filling in blanks with simple past verbs, conjugating verbs into their simple past form, writing statements using affirmative and negative forms of simple past verbs, and rewriting a short story in the simple past tense.

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SUBJECT : Simple Past Tense

A) Fill in the blanks with a verb from the box in the SIMPLE PAST:

break swim have make sit write

spend buy drink lose wash

1. She …made…….. a cake an hour ago.


2. She …bought .. a hat last week.
3. The boy …wrote….. a letter yesterday.
4. They …swam…. in the sea for an hour.
5. They …drank.. a lot of Coke last night.
6. She …broke… her arm last week.
7. He …spent... all his money last week.
8. She …whashed……… a bath two minutes ago.
9. He …lost... his wallet last night.
10. She …sat….. on the old chair a minute ago.
11. She …had….. the clothes yesterday.

B) Fill in the blanks with the SIMPLE PAST of the verbs in brackets:

Last Saturday my father …. took…. (take) my friends and me to the circus. We …saw…
(see)
lots of things. My father ……bought……. (buy) us some popcorn and orange juice. We
……ate………. (eat) the popcorn and …drank…… (drink) the orange juice.
We ………laughed….. (laugh) at the funny clowns. There ………were……. (be) a lion-
tamer.
The lions ……did……… (do) tricks; they ……jumped……… (jump) through hoops. A
girl …rode... (ride) an elephant around the ring. We all ………had…… (have)
a wonderful time.

C) Write what Jean DID or DIDN’T do yesterday:

go shopping ( - ) ………… Jean didn’t go shopping yesterday.


…………….
clean the house ( + )
………………………………………………………………
feed the cat ( + ) .
………………………………………………………………
telephone Mary ( - )
………………………………………………………………
watch a film on TV ( - )
………………………………………………………………
visit her grandparents ( + )
………………………………………………………………
take them a cake ( + )
………………………………………………………………

D) Fill in the blanks with the PAST form of the verbs:

Benjamin Franklin …… was born ….. (be born) in Boston in 1706. He ……was……
(be)
the fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor candlemaker. He ……went………(go ) to
school only one year. He ……began………… (begin) to work when he was twelve. At the
age of fourteen he ……decided…… (decide) to be a writer. He……copied……. (copy) the
great stories of famous writers and later he……became…… (become) the best known
writer in his time.
When he …was….. (be) seventeen, he ……letf……… (leave) Boston and ………
arrived…… (arrive) in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his pocket. He …
got……… (get) a job as a publisher of a newspaper and …retired…. (retire) from business
as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he ……spent……. (spend) the next forty years for
his government. He ………played……. (play) an important role in the founding of the
USA.
Franklin …was…… (be) also an important scientist and inventor. He …drew……….
(draw) electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He ……wrote……… (write) one of the first
text books on electricity. He ………inventted……… (invent) a simple lightning rod and
many other practical tools. He ………made……… (make) a study of water and ……
discovered…………. (discover) many principles of hydrodynamics. He even …………
inventted………… (invent) bifocal glasses when he was seventy-eight and ……
needed………… (need) them himself. Franklin ……went……… (do) all these things
and many more because he …….belived……… (believe) he …could…… (can).

E) Read the following story:


Bob is a young sailor. He lives in England, but he is often away with his ship. One
summer he comes back from a long voyage and finds new neighbors near his mother’s
house. They have a pretty daughter, and Bob soon loves her and he wants to marry her
when he comes back. Bob promises the girl to send a present from every port.
Bob’s first port is Capetown in Africa, and he sends the girl a parrot from there. The
parrot speaks three languages. When Bob’s ship reaches Australia, a letter comes from the
girl. The letter says, “Thank you for the parrot, Bob. It tasted much better than a chicken.”

a) Write the story again. Use THE SIMPLE PAST:

Bob was a young sailor. He lived in England, but he was often away with his ship.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………

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