PAST SIMPLE
1 Write the simple past form of the following verbs:
. walk ……………………….. . stay …………………….. . shop …………………… . Visit …………………..
. hate ……………………….. . study …………………… . rain ……………………. . reFER ………………..
. arrive ……………………… . pray ……………………. . wrap ………………….. . Gallop ……………….
. pass ……………………….. . annoy ………………….. . rob …………………….. . reGRET ……………..
. cook ……………………….. . carry ……………………. . cancel …………………. . slip ……………………
. cry ………………………….. . slim …………………….. . travel ………………….. . turn ………………….
2 Forms. Make simple past positive and negative questions.
I / play / football (hockey) I played football but I didn’t play hockey.
1 We / speak / Spanish together ( Arabic)
2 I / take / my mother to the mountains /(my father)
3 She / write / to her sister ( her brother)
4 They / know / my address (phone number)
5 He / phone / her (go to her house)
6 We / keep / the photos (the letters)
7 John / change/ his shirt (his trousers)
8 I / work / last week (the week before)
3 Use the words in brackets to make a question and an answer. Use the Past
Simple.
(when / Kennedy / die?) (He / in 1963) When did Kennedy die? He died in 1963.
1 (what / Marie Curie / discover / in 1898? (she / radium)
2 (where / Michelangelo / live?) (He / in Florence)
3 (when / Margaret Thatcher / become/ Prime Minister) (She / Prime Minister in 1979)
4 (what / Alexander Bell / invent) (He / the telephone)
5 (How many books / Agatha Christie / write?) (She / over a hundred books)
6 (when / La Roja / win / the European Cup) (They / in 2012)
4 Answer the questions in the Past Simple using the words in brackets.
Where did you go? (cinema) I went to the cinema.
1 Who did you go with? (Sam)
2 What did he buy? (a hamburger)
3 What language did they speak? (English)
4 When / the lesson begin? (half an hour ago)
5 How / you / come? (by train)
6 What / he / break? (his leg)
7 Who / Sally / bring? (her sister)
8 Where / you / put it? (in my pocket)
Past Simple and Continuous / 1º Bach.
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PAST CONTINUOUS
1 What were the people doing yesterday evening? Look at the pictures and
complete the sentences.
cook supper dance drive home not watch TV play cards not have a shower sleep
1 At 9.15 Sarah was cooking supper.
2 At 10.30 Fred and Alice ……………………………
3 At 8.20 Keith …………………………………………..
4 At 7.50 Mary ……………………………………………
5 At 11.00 Oliver ………………………………………..
6 At 10.00 I ……………………………………………….
7 At 11.30 my mother …………………………………
2 Put in the Simple Past or the Past Progressive. Which is the longer
action?
1 While I was walking down the street, I saw Bill. (walk / see)
2 While I ……………………………………… the newspaper, the cat …………………………….
on to the table. (read / jump)
3 When Alan ……………………….. Helen, he ………………………………………. In Morocco.
(travel / meet)
4 Sally ………………………………. her leg while she …………………………………….. . (ski /
break)
5 While I …………………………………… , somebody …………………………… my car.
(shop / steal)
6 Jenny ……………………………………. the homework when the phone ……………………..
(ring / do)
3 Use the Past Simple or the Past Continuous to make sentences from the
words below.
Peter / have / an accident / while / he / drive / home
Peter had an accident while he was driving home.
1 The police / arrive / while / I / have breakfast
2 The storm / start / while / they / drive / home
3 While / I / wait / for the bus / I / see / an accident
4 My father / cook / the dinner / when / he / burn / his fingers
5 The soldiers / prepare / to leave / when / the bomb / explode
Past Simple and Continuous / 1º Bach. 2
