A) Fill in the blanks with a verb from the box in the SIMPLE PAST:
1. She made a cake an hour ago. 2. She bought a hat last week. 3. The boy wrote a letter yesterday. 4. They swam in the sea for an hour. 5. They drank a lot of Coke last night. 6. She broke her arm last week. 7. He spent all his money last week. 8. She had a bath two minutes ago. 9. He lost his wallet last night. 10. She sat on the old chair a minute ago. 11. She washed the clothes yesterday.
B) Fill in the blanks with the SIMPLE PAST of the verbs in brackets:
Last Saturday my father took my friends and me to the circus. We saw lots of things. My father bought us some popcorn and orange juice. We ate the popcorn and drank the orange juice. We laughed at the funny clowns. There was a lion-tamer. The lions did tricks; they jumped through hoops. A girl rode an elephant around the ring. We all had a wonderful time.
C) Write what Jean DID or DIDN’T do yesterday:
go shopping ( - ) ...Jean didn’t go shopping yesterday clean the house ( + ) ...Jean cleaned the house yesterday feed the cat ( + ) ...Jean fed the cat yesterday telephone Mary ( - ) …Jean didn't telephone Mary yesterday watch a film on TV ( - ) …Jean didn't watch a film on TV yesterday visit her grandparents ( + ) …Jean visited her grandparents yesterday take them a cake ( + ) …Jean took them a cake yesterday
D) Fill in the blanks with the PAST form of the verbs:
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston in 1706. He was the fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor candlemaker. He went to school only one year. He began to work when he was twelve. At the age of fourteen he decided to be a writer. He copied the great stories of famous writers and later he became the best known writer in his time. When he was seventeen, he left Boston and arrived in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his pocket. He got a job as a publisher of a newspaper and retired from business as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he spent the next forty years for his government. He played an important role in the founding of the USA. Franklin was also an important scientist and inventor. He drew electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He wrote one of the first text books on electricity. He invited a simple lightning rod and many other practical tools. He made a study of water and discovered many principles of hydrodynamics. He even invented bifocal glasses when he was seventy-eight and needed them himself. Franklin did all these things and many more because he believed he could.
1) The sun is shining
2) The boys and girls are smiling
3) l am reading now
4) she is playing tennis at the moment.
5) they are sleeping
6) dad is watching TV
7) mum is cooking lunch
8) Ben and Bill are writing a letter
9)we are speaking English now
10) Look! Kate is dancing
n.s
1) Nancy isn`t sleeping now
2) The children aren`t eating soup now
3) we aren`t doing the dusting at the moment.
4) Grandma isn`t drinking tea
5) i am not doing my homework
6) you aren`t playing football
are you reading? is she sleeping? is mum washing dishes? are they dusting off? is Grandma baking cake?
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