Simple Past Tense 11.

My brother and I ___________ (finish) our homework an

Regular Verbs - hour ago.

Verbs ending in… How? Examples 12. Susan ________ (like) cycling when she was 8.
e add -d live – lived 13. My parent ___________ (go) to the theatre yesterday.
agree – agreed
consonant + y change y to i, then try – tried 14. We ____________ (play) beach volleyball when we were at
add -ed cry – cried the seaside.
*consonant (not
a,e,i,o,u) 15. They __________ (study) hard for the English tests.
1 vowel + 1 double the commit – committed 16. Mr. Shamsul ____________ (work) at the office since 2002.
consonant consonant, then plan – planned
17. The children ____________ (smile) happily.
add -ed
*vowel (a,e,i,o,u) 18. The poor eagle ___________ (injure) after it fell from tree.
anything else add -ed boil – boiled
19. She ____________ (want) a new dress.
including w hand – handed
play – played 20. My grandfather _____________ (plant) a tree last Sunday.

Activity 1: Practise the Regular Verbs 21. The performance ___________ (end) last night.

1. We ____________ (stop) at a zebra crossing. 22. It ___________ (snow) last winter.

2. I _______________ (carry) an umbrella in my bag. 23. My sisters ___________ (wash) the cups and plates in the

3. Alif _____________ (fail) his driving test again. kitchen.

4. Tell me, what ________________ (happen)? 24. Aunt Irene __________ (fry) fish and chips for out lunch on

5. They ____________ (enjoy) the funfair a lot. Saturday.

6. The cat ____________ (escape) from the garden. 25. We __________ (try) the new clothes on.

7. Yesterday Sam ____________ (revise) all his English 26. They _________ (fasten) their seat belts when the car

lessons. moved.

8. He ___________ (open) the doors just now. 27. Mary _____________ (invite) my cousin for dinner last

9. My father ___________ (park) the car outside 15 minutes school holidays.

ago. 28. The naughty boy _____________ (shout) and _________

10. We __________ (have) a lot of fun at your birthday party (cry) in the public.

yesterday. 29. Your mother _____________ (call) your father just now.
Irregular Verbs -

1) Most Important Irregular Verbs

Pronoun Be Have Do
I was had did 3) Most Common Irregular Verbs

You/We/They were had did Base Meaning Present Past Participle

Form
He/She/It was had did eat eat (s) ate eaten
feel feel (s) felt felt
find find (s) found found
2) Unchanged Verbs Form get get (s) got gotten
Base Meaning Present Past Participle give give (s) gave given
Form
go go (s) went gone
cost cost (s) cost cost
know know (s) knew known
cut cut (s) cut cut
see see (s) saw seen
hear hear (s) heard heard
take take (s) took taken
hit hit (s) hit hit
write write (s) wrote writen
hurt hurt (s) hurt hurt
leave leave (s) left left 4) Copycats
let let (s) let let Base Meaning Present Past Participle
make make (s) made made Form
come come (s) came come
put put (s) put put
become become(s) became become
quit quit (s) quit quit
get get (s) got gotten
read read (s) read read
forget forget (s) forgot forgotten
say say (s) said said
give give (s) gave given
stand stand (s) stood stood
forgive forgive(s) forgave forgiven
tell tell (s) told told
draw draw(s) drew drawn
withdraw withdraw(s) withdrew withdrawn
5) The aught/ought 8) (ow > ew > own)
Base Meaning Present Past Participle Base Meaning Present Past Participle
Form Form
bring bring (s) brought brought blow blow(s) blew blown
buy buy (s) bought bought grow grow (s) grew grown
catch catch (es) caught caught fly flies flew flown
fight fight (s) fought fought know know (s) knew known
seek seek (s) sought sought throw throw (s) threw thrown
teach teach (es) taught taught
9) (long i> long o> short i + en)
think think (s) thought thought
Base Meaning Present Past Participle
Form
6) (__end > __ent)
bite bite (s) bit bitten
Base Meaning Present Past Participle hide hide (s) hid hidden
Form
lend lend (s) lent lent drive drive (s) drove driven

send send (s) sent sent ride ride (s) rode ridden

spend spend (s) spent spent rise rise (s) rose risen

7) (__eep > ____ ept) 10) i > a > u

Base Meaning Present Past Participle Base Meaning Present Past Participle
Form Form
keep keep (s) kept kept begin begin (s) began begun
drink drink (s) drank drunk
sleep sleep (s) slept slept
ring ring (s) rang rung
sweep sweep (s) swept swept
sing sing (s) sang sung
weep weep (s) wept wept
swim swim (s) swam swum
10) Past participle ends in -en
Base Meaning Present Past Participle
12) Others
Form
break break (s) broke broken Base Meaning Present Past Participle
choose choose (s) chose chosen Form
build break (s) broke broken
fall fall (s) fell fallen
run run (s) ran run
freeze freeze (s) froze frozen tear tear (s) tore torn
shake shake (s) shook shaken wear wear (s) wore worn
speak speak (s) spoke spoken Activity 1: Practice the Irregular Verbs
steal steal (s) stole stolen
wake wake (s) woke woken Jim ________(become) a teacher because he
____________ (understand) science and wanted to share it with
others. As he _______ (teach), he _______ (find) that he ______
(be) learning as much from his students about life as he ______ (be)
11) Others (Past x Participle = Same)
teaching them about science. He _______ (write) to his mother, “I
Base Meaning Present Past Participle
Form ________(begin) as an expert, and ________ (think) I _______
feed feed (s) fed fed (know) a lot, but now I just want to learn more.”
hang hang (s) hung hung
hold hold (s) held held Jim ______ (has) a hobby. Jim had lots of energy. So he
lead lead (s) led led
______ (run) a marathon, _______ (grow) a vegetable garden, and
lose lose (s) lost lost
_____ (put) many hours into his school’s science fair. The state
mean mean (s) meant meant
science fair commission _________ (send) his school an award
meet meet (s) met met
because so many students _____ (do) experiments for the fair, and
pay pay (s) paid paid
three _____ (win) blue medals at the state competition. But Jim
sell sell (s) sold sold
decided his favorite activity of all was helping the scout troop he
sit sit (s) sat sat
_____ (lead).
win win (s) won won
 Activity 2: Practice the Irregular Verbs

Before she _______ (get) sick, Marie often _______ (go) to swap meets. Marie _________ (buy)
things that ______ (be-plural) inexpensive, and she _______ (take) them to a different swap meet and
_______ (sell) them for a little more. She usually _______ (make) a profit, though she _____ (have) a
few bad experiences.

One time someone _______ (give) her counterfeit money when he _______ (pay) for the item
he wanted. After that she looked carefully at money before she _______ (take) it. Another day she
______ (set) a beautiful glass vase that ______ (cost) her a lot too near the edge of her sales table. It
________ (fall) off the table and ________ (break), so she _______ (lose) all the money she _______
(spend) to buy it. One day Marie ______ (eat) some bad meat. She _______ (feel) sick so she _______
(go) home and rested. Rest ____ (do) not help at all. She just _____ (get) worse. After several days
she called the hospital and ______ (speak) to a nurse. The nurse ______ (say), “I think you have food
poisoning. You need someone to drive you to the hospital right away.” So Maria’s sister ______ (come)
and _______ (drive) her to the hospital.

At the hospital, the doctor (tell) _______ her that she had gotten dehydrated. So she _______
(drink) lots of water and broth and _____ (take) all the medicine the doctor ______ (give) her. Finally
she _____ (be) better, and the doctor _____ (let) her leave the hospital. Her sister _______ (come)
and ______ (take) her home. She finally _______ (leave) the hospital a week after she arrived. She
______ (keep) telling her sister how glad she ______ (feel) to go home!

After her illness, Marie ______ (be) weaker. She could not walk around the swap meet anymore.
Even when she just ________ (sell) things she already _______ (have), it ______ (be) too hard for her.
When she _______ (stand) very long at her sales table, she _______ (get) tired. So she _______ (bring)
a chair and ______ (sit) while she worked. But she _______ (find) that even driving to the swap meet
and setting up her stand ______ (make) her too tired. The doctor ______ (say) to her, “If you want to
get better, you need to stay home for a while.”

Marie stayed home and rested. She ______ (read) books and ______ (see) her favourite shows
on T.V. She ______ (get) cards from her friends that ______ (hear) she had been sick. But after a week
Marie ____ (do) not want to read or watch T.V. anymore. She ____ (be) bored. Marie missed the people
she ______ (meet) at the swap meet. So she ______ (get) a computer and _______ (make) some
friends online. She _______ (tell) them, “Even if I can’t sell things, I can still talk to people!