this is an exercise to practice the simple past

1. Name: __________________ Mark:
Date: _____/ _____ / ______ Teacher:
Use: A finished action in the past.
Example: We went to France last year.
Affirmative form: I / You/ He/ She/It/We/ They went to France.
Negative form: I / You/ He/ She/It/We/ They didn’t go to France.
Interrogative form: Did I / you/ he/ she/It/we/ they go to France?
A. Complete the table with the Past Simple forms of the verbs.
INFINITIVE PAST SIMPLE INFINITIVE PAST SIMPLE
be put
become ride
buy run
catch say
choose see
come send
cost sing
cut sit
drive speak
drink spend
eat steal
fall swim
feel take
find tell
fly think
forget throw
give understand
make wake
mean wear
meet win
pay write
B. Complete using the Past Simple.
1. The lesson ______________ (begin) at 10 am and ______________(finish) at 11.30.
2. He ______________(leave) school early.
3. My mother ______________(tell) me not to come home late.

2. 4. I ______________(speak) to my Maths teacher this morning.
5. I ______________(not hear) what he said.
6. We ______________ (buy) all our school books last year.
7. She ______________(send) me an email yesterday.
8. I ______________(not have) time to finish the report last night.
9. He ______________ (bring) home a hungry dog he found in the street.
10. He ______________(not think) it was important.
11. The poor bird ______________(fly) right into the glass window.
12. I’m really furious! Someone ______________(steal) my bike last night.
13. Tom and Ann ______________(not be) at home last night.
14. I ______________(wear) my new shoes to the party and they
______________(make) my feet hurt.
C. Write questions for the following answers:
D. Make these sentences negative:
1. Steve woke up at seven every morning.
2. Mark sat by the pool all day.
3. Their parents ran on the beach.
4. The water was cold.
E. Write questions in the Simple Past:
1. What time / they / arrive at hotel.
2. what places / they / visit
3. When / they / go back home.
4. What / Steve / get as a souvenir.

3. F. Complete with past time adverbials:
1. Today is Thursday: ____________________ was Wednesday.
2. This month is June. May was __________________________
3. This year is 2006. The year 2002 was ____________________
4. Today is June 9th. June 7th was ________________________