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Simple Past Worksheet

The document provides a worksheet on using the simple past tense in English. It includes exercises to complete sentences using common past tense verbs. It also contains passages to rewrite from present to past tense, as well as questions to answer based on a short story using the simple past. The worksheet aims to practice forming and using regular and irregular verbs in the simple past tense.

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Simple Past Worksheet

The document provides a worksheet on using the simple past tense in English. It includes exercises to complete sentences using common past tense verbs. It also contains passages to rewrite from present to past tense, as well as questions to answer based on a short story using the simple past. The worksheet aims to practice forming and using regular and irregular verbs in the simple past tense.

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SIMPLE PAST WORKSHEET

SUBJECT : Simple Past Tense

A) Complete los espacios con los verbos del cuadro en el PASADO SIMPLE:

break swim have make sit write

spend buy drink lose wash

1. She ………………….. a cake an hour ago.


2. She ………………….. a hat last week.
3. The boy ………………….. a letter yesterday.
4. They ……………………. in the sea for an hour.
5. They ………………….. a lot of Coke last night.
6. She ………………… her arm last week.
7. He ……………………. all his money last week.
8. She …………………… a bath two minutes ago.
9. He ……………………. his wallet last night.
10. She ………………….. on the old chair a minute ago.
11. She ………………….. the clothes yesterday.

B) Complete los espacios con el pasado simple de los verbos en paarentsis:

Last Saturday my father …. took…. (take) my friends and me to the circus. We ………(see)
lots of things. My father …………………. (buy) us some popcorn and orange juice. We
……………………. (eat) the popcorn and ………………………… (drink) the orange juice.
We …………………….. (laugh) at the funny clowns. There …………………. (be) a lion-tamer.
The lions …………………… (do) tricks; they ………………………… (jump) through hoops.
A girl ………………………. (ride) an elephant around the ring. We all ………………… (have)
a wonderful time.

C) Escribe los que Jean hizo o no hizo ayer. Ten en cuenta la estructura del pasado simple:

go shopping ( - ) ………… Jean didn’t go shopping yesterday. …………….


clean the house ( + ) ………………………………………………………………
feed the cat ( + ) .………………………………………………………………
telephone Mary ( - ) ………………………………………………………………
watch a film on TV ( - ) ………………………………………………………………
visit her grandparents ( + ) ………………………………………………………………
take them a cake ( + ) ………………………………………………………………

D) Complete los espacios con la forma en pasado de los verbos en parentesis:

Benjamin Franklin …… was born ….. (be born) in Boston in 1706. He ………………… (be)
the fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor candlemaker. He …………………(go ) to
school only one year. He …………………………… (begin) to work when he was twelve. At
the age of fourteen he …………………………… (decide) to be a writer. He ………………….
(copy) the great stories of famous writers and later he …………………………… (become) the
best known writer in his time.
When he ………………….. (be) seventeen, he ………………………… (leave) Boston and
…………………………… (arrive) in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his pocket. He
……………………… (get) a job as a publisher of a newspaper and ……………………. (retire)
from business as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he ………………………. (spend) the next
forty years for his government. He ………………………. (play) an important role in the
founding of the USA.
Franklin ……………… (be) also an important scientist and inventor. He ……………. (draw)
electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He ……………………… (write) one of the first text
books on electricity. He ……………………… (invent) a simple lightning rod and many other
practical tools. He ……………………… (make) a study of water and ……………………….
(discover) many principles of hydrodynamics. He even ………………………… (invent) bifocal
glasses when he was seventy-eight and ……………………… (need) them himself.
Franklin ……………… (do) all these things and many more because he …………….………
(believe) he ………………………… (can).

E) Lee la siguiente historia:

Bob is a young sailor. He lives in England, but he is often away with his ship.
One summer he comes back from a long voyage and finds new neighbors near his mother’s
house. They have a pretty daughter, and Bob soon loves her and he wants to marry her when he
comes back. Bob promises the girl to send a present from every port.
Bob’s first port is Capetown in Africa, and he sends the girl a parrot from there. The parrot
speaks three languages. When Bob’s ship reaches Australia, a letter comes from the girl. The
letter says, “Thank you for the parrot, Bob. It tasted much better than a chicken.”

a) Reescribe la historia usando el PASADO SIMPLE:

Bob was a young sailor. He lived in England, but he was often away with his ship.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………

b) Responde las preguntas de acuerdo a la historia:

1. What was Bob?


He was a young sailor.
2. What change did he find when he was back home?
………………………………………………………………………………………..
3. How was their daughter?
………………………………………………………………………………………..
4. How did Bob feel about the girl?
………………………………………………………………………………………..
5. What did Bob tell the girl?
………………………………………………………………………………………..
6. What did Bob send the girl from Capetown?
……………………………………………………………………………………….
7. Where is Capetown?
……………………………………………………………………………………….

8. How many languages did the parrot speak?


…………………………………………………………………………………………
9. What did the girl do with the parrot?
…………………………………………………………………………………………

G) Reescribe las oraciones usando las palabras y signos en parentesis:

1. We ate lunch at the cafeteria last night.


(he) (-) 2. He didn’t eat lunch at the cafeteria last night.
(yesterday) (?) 3. …………………………………………………
(study in the library) (-?) 4. …………………………………………………
(we) (-) 5. …………………………………………………
(play tennis) (+) 6. ………………………………………………….
(I) (-) 7. …………………………………………………
(get a present) (+) 8. …………………………………………………
(you) (-?) 9. …………………………………………………
(go shopping) (?) 10. ………………………………………………..
(last week) (-) 11. ………………………………………………..
(she) (+) 12. ………………………………………………..
(stay home) (?) 13. ………………………………………………….
(last night) (-?) 14. …………………………………………………
(they) (-) 15. …………………………………………………
(get into trouble) (+) 16. …………………………………………………
(you) (?) 17. …………………………………………………
(see him) (-?) 18. …………………………………………………
(yesterday afternoon) (?) 19. …………………………………………………
(I) (+) 20. …………………………………………………

Guiding videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLHrVG3IpbM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tETVgL-UGMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay2jrhkF1Is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLuNOWXw96c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PjxWSLGXo8&t=43s

Irregular & Regular verbs.


https://www.uv.mx/pozarica/caa-conta/files/2016/02/REGULAR-AND-IRREGULAR-VERBS.pdf

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