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SIMPLE PAST TENSE A) Write the Past Simple form of the verbs 1) Play 2) Walk 3) Watch 4) Listen 5) Wait 6) Check 7) Ask 8) Want 9) Call 10) Deliver 11) Decide 12) Work 13) Warn 14) Wash 15) Try 16) Turn 17) Questi on 18) Obser ve 19) Need 20) Live 21) Laugh 22) Kill 23) Kiss 24) Invite B) Give short answers to the questions 1) Did you close the door? ( + ) ( - ) 2) Did you father wash his car? ( + ) ( - ) 3) Did Marta tidy her room? ( + ) ( - ) 4) Did your mother prepare the dinner? ( + ) ( - ) 5) Did the cleaner finish cleaning? ( + ) ( - ) Regular Verbs C) Fill in the blanks with Simple Past Tense 1) My uncle ( visit ) us this weekend 2) I - ( listen ) to music with my friends 3) We ( study ) hard for the exam So, we ( answer ) all the questions 4) “ - you -( finish ) your homework?” “No, I -.” 5) I - ( wait ) for the school bus but it - ( not-come ) 6) Karen - ( ask ) for help to finish her homework 7) - you - ( invite ) them to your party last week 8) Yesterday night, somebody -( knock ) at the door But I - ( notopen ) it 9) The students - ( walk ) down the street with their teachers 10) Something strange -( happen ) last night 11) Tom - ( check ) his answers 12) The postman - ( deliver ) the letters 13) We - ( live ) in Madrid three years ago 14) Helen - ( not-study ) for the exam and she - ( fail ) D) Turn the sentences into negative or question 1) 2) 3) 4) Clare played tennis this weekend ( - ) David washed his car on Saturday ( - ) - Kate finished her homework ( ? ) All the students answered the questions (- ) - 5) Marta waited for the bus (- ) - 6) Elisa called Sue to go out ( ? ) 7) John watched TV all the day ( ? ) 8) Alex washed the dishes ( ? ) 9) Dorothy invited me to her birthday party ( - ) - 10) Julia cleaned the entire house this morning ( ? ) - Fill in the gaps with the right form of the verbs in brackets Daisy (bring) some chocolates to the birthday party I (hear) a new song on the radio Peter (read) three books last week The Smiths Peter My mother (speak) Italian to the waitress (understand) during the class, but now he doesn't understand (forget) to buy some milk Susan (have) a baby in August We (lose) our keys last Friday They 10 I (swim) 500m yesterday afternoon (give) my mother a CD for her birthday 11 At the age of 23, she 12 I 13 Peter (become) a teacher (know) the answer yesterday (tell) me that he lived in New York 14 We (lend) John €200 15 She (drink) too much coffee yesterday 16 The children 17 He 18 We 19 The film 20 They 21 We 22 Mrs Black 23 They 24 We (sleep) in the car (keep) his promise (choose) the steak for dinner (begin) late (fly) to Madrid (drive) to Edinburgh (teach) English at the University (send) me an e-mail earlier (leave) at a.m Oh My My My She said: I seven and you _ nine I at you like the stars that shine In the sky, the pretty lights And our daddies used to joke about the two of us Growing up and falling in love And our mamas And rolled their eyes And said oh my, my, my Take me back to the house with the backyard tree Said you'd beat me up you _ bigger than me You never did, you never _ Take me back when our world _ one block wide I dared you to kiss me and when you tried Just two kids, you and I Oh my my my my Taylor Swift was x3 wasn’t were x2 Well I sixteen when suddenly I that little girl you used to see But your eyes still shined Like pretty lights And our daddies used to joke about the two of us They never we'd really fall in love And our mamas _ And rolled their eyes And said oh my, my, my did x2 Take me back to the creek those weeks in love Two AM riding in your truck And all I need is you next to me Take me back to the time we our very first fight The slamming of doors instead of kissing goodnight You _ outside Til the morning light Oh my, my, my, my believed A few years had gone and come around We were sitting at our favourite spot in town And you _ at me Got down on one knee Take me back to the time When we _ down the aisle The whole town _ and our mamas _ You said I And I too Took me home where we so many years before We'll rock our babies on that very front porch After all this time You and I I'll be 87 you'll be 89 I'll still look at you like the stars that shine In the sky Oh my, my, my smiled x2 looked x2 ran cried stayed had walked came met