The Past Simple Tense

Put the verbs into the past simple tense and then make questions and negative sentences:

1 They _____ (go) shopping two days ago.

2 He _____ (wait) for her last Saturday.

3 They _____ (be) at the bus station last week.

4 The Browns _____ (buy) a car last month.

5 Her brother _____ (see) her at 11 o'clock.

Write the past tense of the verbs:

can, come, do, find, get, give, go, have, leave, run, see, take, throw

Did you do any of these things yesterday?

- stay at home

- go to the airport

- take some photographs

- see a famous person

- buy a car

- miss a bus

- run ten kilometres

- find a bag of money

Make the questions to complete the dialogue:

A: (have a good holiday) e.g. Did you have a good holiday?

B: Oh, yes, it was great!

A: (Where / go)?

B: We went to France.

A: (Who / go with)?

B: I went with my parents.

A: (fly)?

B: No, we went by car.

A: (stay in a hotel)?

B: No, we didn't. We took our caravan.

A: (visit Paris)?

B: Oh, yes, we did.

A: (What / see)?

B: We saw lots of things. You know, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum...

A: (buy / souvenirs)?

B: Oh, yes. I bought lots of things.

A: (get back yesterday)?
B: No, we came back on Saturday.

A: (like Paris)?

B: Oh, yes. It was wonderful.

Complete the story. Use the past form of: be, come, invent and play.

The Romans _____ football. When they _____ to England, football _____ too. All the people in one village _____ against all the people in another village. There _____ sometimes 200 players in a village football team!