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Learning Activities

1. Fill the story with the verbs in simple past. Check your answers with a partner.

2. Look at this time phrases. Which ones can only be used to talk about the past?

1. 3. 5. 7.

2. 4. 6. 8.

Patricia an her friends.

Last night Patricia _____________ (call) her friends. They_____________ (decide) to go to the mall. They _______________

(order) dinner at a restaurant and ______________(laugh) a lot. They

___________________(not go) to movies, because they

_______________(need) to study for a test. So, they all

_________________ (arrive) home early. They didnt want to go home

to study because they loved shopping.

Emilios yesterday.

Emilio _____________ (have) soccer practice yesterday morning. He

_____________ (meet) his friends for breakfast and then they

____________ (go) to play videogames at Emilios house. Emilio

____________ (leave) with his friends to go watch a soccer game.

Their team _______________ (win) !!Hooray!!

Yesterday morning / every day / usually / on Saturday / last night /

sometimes / two hours ago / three years ago / on Saturday / last

month / every Wednesday / eight weeks ago / last Friday / at six

oclock / the day before yesterday / every afternoon

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3. Complete the sentences with a verb from the box in the past simple.

want / be / stop / be / love

1. Jacques Cousteau _________________ an explorer, among other things.

2. He _________________ the world under the ocean.

3. He _________________ to protect the oceans of the world.

4. All of Cousteaus TV series about the ocean ________________ very popular.

5. Cousteau never __________________ working to protect the oceans.

4. Complete these sentences with an appropriate verb in the simple past.

1. My grandmother ______________ eight children.

2. My uncle ______________ to school when he was 15.

3. My great aunt _______________ to medical school in the 1950s.

4. My friends father _________________ fruits and vegetables in the central market when he was a teenager.

5. Her family ___________________ a lot of money from their clothing factory.

6. Their grandfather __________________ mathematics at a secondary school.

5. Look at the questions and answer the question below.

What did you do last night? Who did you go with? Why didnt you come by after the game? When did the

game finish? Where did you go for a drink?

Which question word do you use when you are asking about:

1. a place? ____________________

2. a reason? ___________________

3. a time? _____________________

4. a thing or activity? _____________________

5. a person or people? _____________________

6. Complete the questions with the correct question word.

1. ________________ did Dave go last night? To Steves house.

2. ________________ did the volley ball game start? Eigth oclock.

3. ________________ did Dave call Holly? Because he wantedto know about her evening.

4. ________________ did Holly get the ticket? At ticketsales.com

5. ________________ did Holly go to the game with? Her neighbor

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8. Write the sentences in the negative.

a) I ate sandwich for lunch. __________________________________________________________b) She cleaned the kitchen. __________________________________________________________c) They left early. __________________________________________________________________d) He was hurt. ____________________________________________________________________e) He became famous. ______________________________________________________________f) She put the coffe in the microwave. __________________________________________________g) He had a degree in engineering. _____________________________________________________