A. Read the story. Answer the questions.

E. Complete these sentences with the verbs in

1 Where did Tom and Peter meet?
2 What did they want to play?
3 Did the boys play basketball?
Yesterday afternoon, I invited Peter to go to the
playground to play basketball with me. We met there
at 5.00 o’clock. There were some older boys there
playing football. We wanted to join them, but they
didn’t want to play with us. So Peter and I decided to
find some other place to play. We went to a nearby
park. When we arrived there we saw some kids
fighting. They were of our age. We tried to help, but
we couldn’t. One of the boys even punched me so
hard that I fell down. Peter started to call for help.
There were some older kids in the park too, but they
didn’t want to help. I somehow managed to get out of
the park and I saw my father. He didn’t see me, so I
had to shout.
B. Complete the sentences from the story.
1 Tom _____ Peter to go to the playground with him.
2 We _____ to help, but we couldn’t.
3 Peter _____ to call for help.
brackets. Use the simple past. Write the
negatvie forms, too.
Example: Mum opened (open) the door for us.
Mum didn’t open the door for us.
1 That event ____________ (happen) lon ago.
That event _______ _______ long ago.
2 They ____________ (walk) to school together
yesterday.
They _______ _______ to school together
yesterday.
3 Dad ____________ (try) to fix the light.
Dad _______ _______ to fix the light.
F. Complete the sentences rom the story.
1 We _____ there at five o’clock.
2 Tom _____ his father.
Grammar note
These are irregular verbs. There is no rule to make
these verbs. You need to learn the form for each verb:

C. Complete the table with the verbs from the bend - bent have – had see - saw
story. break – broke hear – heard take - took
bring - brought keep – kept tell - told
This is the past simple tense, affirmative – buy – bought lose – lost
regular verbs. What do we add to regular verbs fall - fell meet - met
to make simple past affirmative? fly - flew sell - sold
get – got shoot - shot
Most verbs + -ed punch - _________ go - went sleep – slept
want - _________
start - _________ G. Complete the sentences with the correct
Verbs ending in – e + -d invite - _________ simple past of the verbs in brackets.
decide - _________
arrive - _________ 1 I _____ (lose) my pen on the bus.
manage - _________ 2 We _____ (sell) our car last week.
Verbs ending –y after a try - _________ 3 The baby _____ (sleep) right through the night.
consonant – remove –y 4 Peter _____ (get) a watch for his birthday.
and add -ied
H. Past simple – irregular verbs – negative
D. Read and compare. How do we make forms.
negative forms?
a) Complete the sentence from the story.
1 Peter started to call for help.
1 a Peter didn’t start to call for help. I saw my father, but he ______ ______ me.
2 I tried to help.
2 a I din’t try to help. *To make the neagtive of the past simple tense of
irregular verbs, we use didn’t and the infinitive
*We use ___________ + infinitive (verb without – ed (first form) of the verb.
/ -d) to make the negative of the past simple of
regular verbs.

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 b) Make these sentences negative. 3 A: _____________________ (your friends / want)
Example: to help?
He broke the window yesterday. B: Yes, ___________
He didn’t break the window yesterday .

1 I heard a noise in the night.

__________________________________.
2 He brought his pet mouse to school.
__________________________________.
3 My book fell off the desk.
__________________________________.
SIMPLE PAST – QUESTIONS
D. Match the sentences to the picures.
1 The wicked Queen gave Snow White a poisoned
apple.
3 Pinocchio’s nose grew longer every time he told a
lie.
4 Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago.
a.

A. Read these two sentences. How do we make

questions? Complete the rules.

1 He watched TV all day.

1 a Did he watch TV all day?
2 He went to London.
2 a Did he go to London?

*To make questions in the past simple we use _____

and the infinitive. We put Did ____________ the
subject.

B. Make questions. b.

Example:

She tried to help.

Did she try to help ?

1 He fell off a horse yesterday.

_____________________________?
2 She bought a new computer last week.
_____________________________? c.
3 They invited me to their party.
_____________________________? Answers:
4 She studied French when she was in France. 1 - ___
_____________________________? 2 - ___
3 - ___
C. Make questions an give short answers.

Example: *We use the simple past tense to talk about things
A: _______________________ (you/see) him that happened in the past. The simple past tense is
yesterday? also used to talk about things that happened in stories
B: Yes, ___________.

A: Did you see him yesterday?

B:Yes, I did .

1 A: _____________________ (Tom / break) that

window?
B: Yes, ___________ .
2 A: _____________________ (you and Sue / arrive)
yesterday?
B: No, ___________ .
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