PAST SIMPLE EXERCISES What is the simple

PAST SIMPLE EXERCISES

What is the simple past? To create the simple past, add –ed to most simple present verbs. Verbs: watch, start, live, move, study, stay. 1. Yesterday Kahn __ English for two hours. Mayra __ a video on elephants last night. Last year Ana __ in Chicago for a week. Roberto __ in the library all day yesterday. Kim __ in China before she __ here. Jo __ to learn French when he __ in France. Alan __ to our community at age fifteen. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

What is the past of be? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Is Bob still on a low-cost diet? Were matches you we, and they. Was is for I and he. Where __ you last night? I __ at home! __ you up or in bed? I __ up until late. I __ on the phone to call you many times. Sorry, I __ not near my cell phone.

Which is the past form? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Sylvia blow/blew the odd guy off. Alfredo drew/drawn a cool picture. Minh kept/keep his place in class. The bank lend/lent Foram $5, 000. The professor tore/tear the paper. Krupal stood/stand in the back. The girl wear/wore red lipstick.

Can you fill in the verbs? Verbs: finish, get, put, want, use, forget, find, talk, be, lose, call, do, and remember. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Poor Carmen __ her cell phone inside her own car. She __ that it __ in her car just the day before. She __ her friend Abdul to talk about their date. When she __ speaking, she __ the phone down. She __ out of the car, leaving the phone in there. She __ busy in her house and __ think about it. Then she __ to call someone, and __ it again.

Do you know the past verbs? present begin buy drive fail feel go grow hear past ___ ___ present 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. past know leave lose mean pay sell sit think ___ ___

Can you use the academic vocabulary? Words to use: achieve, effect, approach, chapter, and context. 1. How do you complete or __ your goals? How do you __ change in your life? How do you __ the way of learning? What division or __ are you reading? In what situation or __ can you study? 2. 3. 4. 5.