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TOPIC SIMPLE PAST

DATE 28/05/2018

PARTICIPANT’S NAME
- Asto Huamani Miguel Angel.
- Huancahuire Urbina Rony Jhon.

SUBJECT : Simple Past Tense

A) Fill in the blanks with a verb from the box in the SIMPLE PAST:

1. She ……baked……….. a cake an hour ago.

2. She ………made………….. a hat last week.
3. The boy ……wrote…………….. a letter yesterday.
4. They …………were…………. 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 ………took…………… a bath two minutes ago.
9. He ………found……. his wallet last night.
10. She …………sat……….. on the old chair a minute ago.
11. She ………bough………….. the clothes yesterday.

B) Fill in the blanks with the SIMPLE PAST of the verbs in brackets:

Last Saturday my father …. took…. (take) my friends and me to the soccer match. We
…saw……(see)
lots of things. My father ……bought……………. (buy) us some sandwiches and coke. We
……ate………………. (eat) the sandwiches and …………drank……………… (drink) the coke.
We ……had…………. (have fun) a lot. There ……were……………. (be) lots of car in the
parking, almost we couldn’t find our car.
The lions …………did………… (do) tricks; they ………jumped……… (jump) through hoops.
My best player___goaled__ (goal) at the 35 minute, so I _____felt____ (feel) great.

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 ( + )
telephone Mary ( - )
watch a film on TV ( - )
visit her grandparents ( + )
take them a cake ( + )
.…………jean did feed the cat………
………jean didn’t telephone Mary………………………
………jean didn’ watch a film on TV……………………
………jean visited her grandparents……………………
………jean did took them a cake……………………

D) Fill in the blanks with the PAST form of the verbs:

Benjamin Franklin …… was born ….. 1(be born) in Boston in 1706. He …………… 2(be)
the fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor candlemaker. He …………………3(go ) to school
only one year. He ……………………………4(begin) to work when he was twelve. At the age of
fourteen he ……………………………5(decide) to be a writer. He ………………….
6(copy) the great stories of famous writers and later he …………………………7(become) the
best known writer in his time.
When he …………………..8(be) seventeen, he …………………………9(leave) Boston and
……………………………10(arrive) in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his pocket. He
………………………11(get) a job as a publisher of a newspaper and ………………. 12(retire)
from business as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he ……………………….13(spend) the next
forty years for his government. He ………………………14(play) an important role in the
founding of the USA.
Franklin ……………15(be) also an important scientist and inventor. He ……………. 16(draw)
electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He ………………………17(write) one of the first text
books on electricity. He ………………………18(invent) a simple lightning rod and many other
practical tools. He ………………………19(make) a study of water and ……………………….
(discover) many principles of hydrodynamics. He even …………………………20(invent) bifocal
glasses when he was seventy-eight and ………………………21(need) them himself.
Franklin ………………22(do) all these things and many more because he
…………….…23(believe) he ………………………24(can).

1 was born 5 copied 11 got 16 drew 21 needed

2 was 7 became 12 retired 17 wrote 22 did
3 went 8 was 13 spent 18 invented 23 believed
4 began 9 left 14 played 19 made / 24 could
discovered
5 decided 10 arrived 15 was 20 invented

E) Read the following story:

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) Write the story again. Use THE SIMPLE PAST:

Bob was a young sailor. He lived in England, but he was often away with his ship. One
summer he came back from a long voyage and found new neighbors near his mother`s house.
They had a pretty daughter, and Bob soon loved her and he wanted to marry her when he come
back. Bob promised the girl to send a present from every port.

Bob`s first port was Capetown in Africa, and he sent the girl a parrot from there. The parrot
speaks three languages. When Bob`s ship reached Australia, a letter came from the girl. The
letter said, “Thank you for the parrot, Bob, It tasted much better than a chicken”.

b) Answer the questions about the story:

1. What was Bob?

He was a young sailor.
2. What change did he find when he was back home?
He found new neighbors near his mother`s home………………………………..
3. How was their daughter?
She was pretty………………………………………………………………………..
4. How did Bob feel about the girl?
Bob soon loved her …………………………………………………………………..
5. What did Bob tell the girl?
Bob promised the girl to send a present from every port ……….…………………..
6. What did Bob send the girl from Capetown?
Bob Sent a parrot from Capetown………………………..………………………….
7. Where is Capetown?
Capetown is in Africa ……………..………………………………………………….

A) Rewrite the sentences using the word and signs in parenthesis:

1. We ate lunch at the cafeteria last night.

(he) (-) 2. He didn’t eat lunch at the cafeteria last night.
(yesterday) (?) 3. Did you eat lunch at the cafeteria yesterday?
(weld in the workshop) (?) 4. Did you weld in the workshop?
(we) (-) 5. We didn`t weld in the workshop.
(play tennis) (+) 6. I played tennis ………………………..……….
(I) (-) 7. I didn`t play tennis ……………………..……
(get a present) (+) 8. You got a present ………………………..……
(you) (?) 9. Did you get a present? ………………..………
(go shopping) (?) 10. Did you go shopping? …………….…….……..
(last week) (-) 11. Last week I didn`t have an event .....………….
(she) (+) 12. She did watch tv ……………. ………………..
(stay home) (?) 13. Did you stay home yesterday? ……………….
(last night) (?) 14. Did they dance cumbia last night?……………
(they) (-) 15. They didn`t dance cumbia last night…………
(get into trouble) (+) 16. The boys got into trouble in the party……
(you) (?) 17. Did you play football in the stadium last night?
(see him) (?) 18. Did you see him yesterday?, Martin …….……