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Past Simple Irregular Verbs

Penny was an accomplished athlete who competed in swimming and track in high school. She usually won gold medals in competitions but sometimes won silver. One day at a meet against another school, Penny fell during a race and hurt her foot, preventing her from competing for the rest of the month. The passage provides a short biography of Penny, an athlete who competed in swimming and track. It describes her success in competitions, usually winning gold medals, but details an instance where she fell during a race and injured her foot, keeping her from competing further that month.

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Past Simple Irregular Verbs

Penny was an accomplished athlete who competed in swimming and track in high school. She usually won gold medals in competitions but sometimes won silver. One day at a meet against another school, Penny fell during a race and hurt her foot, preventing her from competing for the rest of the month. The passage provides a short biography of Penny, an athlete who competed in swimming and track. It describes her success in competitions, usually winning gold medals, but details an instance where she fell during a race and injured her foot, keeping her from competing further that month.

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EVERYDAY ENGLISH 2 Student Worksheet

Module 4 • Situation 2 Grammar Activity


Name:

Past Simple: Irregular Verbs, Positive and Negative

A Read the text.

Penny was very good at sports. She swam on the swimming team in high school. She also ran on the
athletics team. She competed in every competition and began winning medals. She usually won a gold
medal, but sometimes she won a silver. She simply didn’t know how to lose! Her picture was often in
the local newspaper.
Penny really enjoyed the competitions, but she didn’t like traveling to other schools to compete. One
day, she and her teammates went to North High to compete against the team there. Everyone
expected Penny to win a medal in the 100-meter race. Unfortunately, during the race, Penny’s foot
went straight into a small hole and she fell. She got up, but her foot hurt a lot. She didn’t run in any
more competitions that month.

B Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple.

Our family 1 WENT (go) on a great vacation last year. We 2 DID (do) so many

things together. We 3 WOKE UP (wake up) early every morning and


4 EAT (eat) breakfast. Then we 5 PUT (put) our things in the car and 6 DROVE

(drive) to another place. My brother and I 7 SANG (sing) songs and had

so much fun in the car. We 8 MET (meet) some interesting people on the

way. Some of them 9 SOLD (sell) beautiful souvenirs. They


10 SPOKE (speak) Spanish. I 11 KREW (know) some words in Spanish, so I used

them when I 12 PAYED (pay) for the souvenirs I 13 BOUGHT

(buy). At the end of every day,

I 14 WROTE (write) about what we did in my diary. When I 15 GOT (get) home,

I 16 TOLD (tell) everyone about our wonderful trip.

C Complete each sentence with the negative form of the verb in bold. Use the Past Simple.

1. I DIDN´T DRINK tea yesterday. I drank coffee.

2. Sheila DIDN´T TELL Peter about her trip. She told John.

3. The runner DIDN´T RUN 400 meters. He ran 100 meters.

4. The bus DIDN´T GO straight on Fifth Street. It went left instead.

5. Lenny DIDN´T FALL yesterday afternoon. Harry fell.

6. We DIDN´T WIN a gold medal in last week’s competition. We won a silver medal.

7. Paul DIDN´T THINK about himself yesterday. He only thought about the team.

8. My parents DIDN´T GET a chocolate cake for the party last night. They got an apple cake.
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