PAST
SIMPLE   1. Write the simple past form of the verbs below:
                                                     Meet: met
                                                     Go: went
                                                    Drive: drove
                                                    Sleep: slept
                                                  Think: thought
                                                     Ride: rode
                                                    Come: came
                                                      Fly: flew
                                                   Be: was/were
                                                     Sing: sang
                                                 Collect: collected
                                                  Paint: painted
                                                 Invent: invented
                                                  Stop: stopped
                                                   Hug: hugged
                                                  Jump: jumped
                                                      See: saw
                                                 Become: became
                                                   Fight: fought
                                                     Cry: cried
2. Separate the verbs from exercise 1, into the columns
                             Regular Verbs             Irregular verbs
                             Collected-collect         Meet-met
                             Painted-paint             Go-went
                             Invented-invent           Drive-drove
                             Stopped-stop              Sleep-slept
                             Hugged-hug                Think-thought
                             Jumped-jump               Ride-rade
                             Cried-cry                 Come-came
                                                       Fly-flew
                                                       Be-was/were
                                                       Sing-sang
                                                       See-saw
                                                       Become-became
                                                       Fight-fought
3. Change these sentences into negative or interrogative
     A. Maria practiced basketball yesterday (-)
        Maria didn’t practice basketball yestarday
     B. Your friends ate some rice with meat last night (?)
        Did your friends eat rice with meat last night?
     C. Alex and Chris taught English in the school last year (-)
        Alex and Chris didn’t teach english in the school last year
     D. Juanes sang in the concert very well (?)
        Did juanes sing very well at the concert?
4. Complete the sentences with the past of the verbs
A.   I didn’t drink coffee today. (drink)
B.   My friend spent all day at home. (spend)
C.   Wallace gave his mother an expensive present. (give)
D.   Did the students buy the tickets for the show? (buy)
5. Complete the text using the verbs from the box
      Arrive      Take      Be       Break       Call         See     Decide    Notice        Cross       Go
     Last weekend was very funny: first, I called my friend to go to the shopping and then we went to the bus stop to
     take the bus, but when we arrived there, the bus had just gone and so we took a taxi. In the middle of the way,
     the taxi broke down and we decided to go walking.
     After about twenty minutes, we saw the shopping and when we crossed the street we noticed it had closed!!
     The only thing to do: laugh and laugh a lot!!