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Simple Past Tense: Lesson & Questions

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

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Class
Date
1.

The Simple Past Tense is used to talk about actions, states, and situations in the past.


Yesterday, Ali walked to school.


what is the tense of the word "walked"?

a)

simple present tense

b)

simple past tense

2.

We use the Simple Past to describe a series of actions in the __________.

a)

present

b)

past

c)

future

3.

Q: Complete the sentence with the correct word.


Yesterday, Ali woke up, brushed his teeth and _____ a bath.

a)

take

b)

takes

c)

took

d)

taking

4.

We can use the Simple Past together with the Past Continuous.


Yesterday, while Ali was walking to school, he saw a cat.


"was walking" is ___________ tense.

a)

simple present

b)

simple past

c)

past continuous

5.

Past tense usually comes with -ed.


Choose the past tense.


Emily Dickinson _____ in the nineteenth century.

a)

live

b)

lived

c)

living

6.

Some past tense changes form.

Example: "write" in past tense is "wrote"


She ________ more than a thousand poems


Q: which one below is past tense?

a)

write

b)

wrote

c)

writing

7.

You can use the simple past tense with time expressions that refer to the past.


Instruction: Fill in the blank with "last".


She was here (a)   Sunday.

8.

Instruction: Fill in the blank with "last"


They were in London (a)   year.

9.

Instruction: Fill in the blank with "ago"


He went shopping in the new mall a week (a)   .

10.

Instruction: Fill in the blank with "ago"


We saw the Director eating in the café a while (a)   .

11.

Instruction: Fill in the blank with "yesterday".


Ali and Zai were doing their assignments (a)   afternoon.

12.

Instruction: Fill in the blank with "yesterday".


Joe was at the cinema when their parents came back from Tokyo (a)   .

13.

Choose past tense of the word bracket.


The result was so unexpected that it __________ everyone. (shock)

a)

shocks

b)

shocked

14.

Choose past tense of the word in bracket.


My mother ____________ chicken curry for dinner last night.(cook)

a)

cooked

b)

cooks

15.

Choose past tense of the word in bracket.


Sam ____________ us to lock the doors.(remind)

a)

reminds

b)

reminded

16.

Choose past tense of the word in bracket.


My sister __________ my hand so tightly that it hurt. (grip)

a)

grips

b)

gripped

17.

Choose past tense of the word in bracket.


Who ____________ my new shoes?(borrow)

a)

borrowed

b)

borrows

18.

Choose past tense of the word in bracket.


My mother ________ her clothes while watching television. (iron)

a)

ironed

b)

irons

19.

Choose past tense of the word in bracket.


We had to stop the game yesterday because it __________ heavily. (rain)

a)

rains

b)

rained

20.

Choose past tense of the word in bracket.


His sister _______ cakes for him yesterday. (bake)

a)

baked

b)

bakes