Activity 1: Simple Past Tense

Greetings, time travelers! 🧙"â™‚️Today's destination is the Simple Past Tense. Imagine the Simple Past Tense as your favorite camera capturing moments that have already happened. This tense is straightforward and is your go-to when you want to talk about completed actions in the past.

The Snapshot Structure:

With the Simple Past Tense, think of the verb as your camera's shutter—once you click, that moment has passed.
For regular verbs, add -ed to the base form. For example, “talk” becomes “talked”.
For irregular verbs, the past tense varies. For example, “go” becomes “went”, and “eat” becomes “ate”.

Instructions:

Complete the sentences using the Simple Past tense form of the verb in brackets. Remember to consider regular and irregular verbs. Let’s go on a journey through time with these sentences!

Question 1

Yesterday, I ________ my friend at the café. (meet)

Question 2

Last week they ________ to an amazing concert. (go)

Question 3

She ________ a beautiful painting in the art class. (create)

Question 4

We ________ the game easily. (win)

Question 5

He ________ a new language last year. (learn)

Question 6

The ancient Egyptians ________ pyramids as tombs for their pharaohs. (build)

Question 7

What ________ you ________ when the earthquake occurred? (do)

Question 8

While I ________ home, it started to rain. (walk)

Question 9

My grandmother ________ delicious cookies for us. (make)

Question 10

They ________ his name from the guest list by mistake. (remove)

Question 11

When I was a kid, I ________ to climb trees. (love)

Question 12

The president ________ a speech about the new policy yesterday. (give)

Question 13

She never ________ that she was wrong. (admit)

Question 14

The company ________ a new CEO last month. (appoint)

Question 15

Two hundred years ago, most people ________ on farms. (live)

Question 16

People from all over the world ________ at the festival. (perform)

Question 17

The storm last night ________ down many trees. (blow)

Question 18

The students ________ their exams before the holidays. (finish)

Question 19

Before the internet, how ________ people ________ information? (get)

Question 20

Farah ________ her old toys and ________ them to charity. (gather, give)

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