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Simple Past Tense Worksheet

The document contains exercises to practice simple past tense verbs. Exercise 1 has students form sentences using verbs in simple past tense. Exercise 2 asks students to report what Jill did in the past week. Exercises 3-7 provide sentences with verbs in parentheses and asks students to change them to simple past tense. The answer key provides the completed sentences.

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Simple Past Tense Worksheet

The document contains exercises to practice simple past tense verbs. Exercise 1 has students form sentences using verbs in simple past tense. Exercise 2 asks students to report what Jill did in the past week. Exercises 3-7 provide sentences with verbs in parentheses and asks students to change them to simple past tense. The answer key provides the completed sentences.

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SIMPLE PAST TENSE

Exercise 1: Make sentences in Simple Past Tense.

1. rent / a / I / and / video / at / yesterday stay home

2. Chicago / when / to / move / my / there / dad / get / we / a / job

3. I / get / my / lose / yesterday / keys / couldn’t / I / into / my / house / so

4. The / something / important / because / show / fashion / learn / be / they / all

5. by / we / in / a / vacation / hotel / the / on / stay / beach / while / in / we / be / Puerto Rico

Exercise 2: What did Jill do last week?

Monday go out with friends


Tuesday visit her grandparents
Wednesday go to the movies
Thursday play video games
Friday buy an alarm clock
Saturday watch TV
Sunday lose her cell phone

E.g. On Monday, she went out with friends.

1._______________________________________________________

2._______________________________________________________

3._______________________________________________________

4._______________________________________________________

5._______________________________________________________

6._______________________________________________________

Exercise 3: Put the words in parentheses into the past simple tense.

Thomas Alva Edison (1) ______________ (be) born in 1847. He (2) ______________ (go) to school
when he was seven, but he (3) ______________ (leave) school three months later because he
(4) ______________ (have) problems with his teacher. His mother (5) ______________ (want) him to
have a good education, so he (6) ______________ (teach) him at home. When he was thirty-two, he
(7) ______________ (invent) the light bulb. After that, he invented more than 1,300 other things. He
(8) ______________ (die) on 18 October, 1931.
Exercise 4: Put the words in parentheses into the past simple tense.

Lesley (1) _______________ (buy) her house two months ago. It is a beautiful cottage in the
countryside. However, when Lesley decided to buy it, it (2) _______________ (need) a lot of work.
First, she (3) _______________ (decorate) all the rooms. Then, she (4) _______________ (plant) lots
of flowers in the garden. After that, she (5) _______________ (make) new curtains for all the
windows. When it was ready, she (6) _______________ (move) in.

Exercise 5: Put the words in parentheses into the past simple tense.

Claude Monet (1) _______________ (be) a famous artist. He (2) _______________ (paint) lots of
beautiful pictures in his lifetime. He often (3) _______________ (take) his paints and a canvas into
the countryside. He (4) _______________ (love) to paint trees and rivers during the different seasons
of the year. Monet (5) _______________ (create) a new kind of art called “impressionism”. He
(6) _______________ (die) in 1926, but many people still visit museums and galleries to look at his
pictures.

Exercise 6: Put the words in parentheses into the past simple tense.

Hi Lyn,

How are you? I hope you’re not mad at me! I’m sorry I couldn’t come to your school graduation party
on Friday, but I (1) _______________ (have) a really bad day.

First, I (2) _______________ (miss) the bus, so I (3) _______________ (be) late for school. Second, I
(4) _______________ (argue) with Sally at lunchtime. Also, I had to look after my little brother
because my mum (5) _______________ (be) at work. She (6) _______________ (come) home in a
bad mood and said I couldn’t go out!

Anyway, I hope you (7) _______________ (have) a great party— I was so sad to miss it.

See you at piano practice on Wednesday!

Paula

Exercise 7: Put the words in parentheses into the past simple tense.

Ada Byron was born in London on 10 December, 1815. She (1) _______________ (be) the daughter
of the famous British poet, Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella. When she was only thirteen, Ada
(2) _______________ (design) a flying machine. Then, when she was eighteen, Ada
(3) _______________ (meet) the inventor, Charles Babbage. She (4) _______________ (help) him
with his work and he (5) _______________ (have) a big influence on her life. Ada
(6) _______________ (marry) Lord Lovelace in 1835 and they had three children. After that, she
(7) _______________ (work) with Babbage on his new calculating machine. In 1843, she
(8) _______________ (write) an article about it with a plan for calculating numbers. This plan was the
first computer program. She had an important influence on computer history because she
(9) _______________ (predict) the modern computer. In 1980, when American scientists
(10) _______________ (invent) a new computer language, they called it ADA.
ANSWER KEY

Exercise 1:

1. I rented a video and stayed at home yesterday.

2. We moved to Chicago when my dad got a job there.

3. I lost my keys yesterday, so I couldn’t get into my house.

4. The fashion show was important because they all learnt something.

5. We stayed in a hotel by the beach while we were on vacation in Puerto Rico.

Exercise 2:

1. On Tuesday, she visited her grandparents.

2. On Wednesday, she went to the movies.

3. On Thursday, she played video games.

4. On Friday, she bought an alarm clock.

5. On Saturday, she watched TV.

6. On Sunday, she lost her cell phone.

Exercise 3:

1. was 2. went 3. left 4. had


5. wanted 6. taught 7. invented 8. died

Exercise 4:

1. bought 2. needed 3. decorated 4. planted 5. made 6. Moved

Exercise 5:

1. was 2. painted 3. took 4. loved 5. created 6. died

Exercise 6:

1. had 2. missed 3. was 4. argued 5. was 6. came 7. had

Exercise 7:

1. was 2. designed 3. met 4. helped 5. had

6. married 7. worked 8. wrote 9. predicted 10. invented

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