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This document contains an exercise on using irregular verbs in the past simple tense by completing sentences. It also contains exercises on forming questions in the past simple tense, using verbs in both the affirmative and negative past simple forms, and using verbs in the past continuous tense by completing sentences.

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Messages3 Past Simple

This document contains an exercise on using irregular verbs in the past simple tense by completing sentences. It also contains exercises on forming questions in the past simple tense, using verbs in both the affirmative and negative past simple forms, and using verbs in the past continuous tense by completing sentences.

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Past simple: irregular verbs


Complete the sentences. Use the past simple
form of the verbs.

Unit 2 Grammar practice

saw (see) Martin at the swimming


1 Paul ..................
pool yesterday.

..................................................................................
3 be / Albert Einstein / painter?

4 I .................. (sleep) for ten hours last night


I was really tired!

..................................................................................
4 Why / Gemma / write / to her uncle?

5 I think Manchester United .................. (win)


the match last week.

..................................................................................
5 When / your cousin / arrive?

6 I .................. (send) you a postcard from


Scotland. Did you get it?

..................................................................................

7 Sarah and Anna didn't go to school yesterday

6 Who / be / the girls / at the cinema /


yesterday?

because they .................. (be) ill.


8 Lily .................. (sell) some of her CDs because
she needed the money.

..................................................................................
7 your dad / like / birthday present?

Past simple: affirmative and


negative

..................................................................................

she was a child.


3 You ............................. (not be) very happy this
morning. Are you all right?

5 I ............................. (not can) understand the


exercise. It was very difficult.
6 People ............................. (not use) the Internet
30 years ago.
7 That was great! You ............................. (play)
really well.
8 I'm sorry, I ............................. (not do) my
homework last night.

Past continuous: affirmative


Complete the sentences. Use the past
continuous form of the verbs.

was cooking (cook) when we


1 Helen ...............................
arrived.
2 Kerry and Emma ............................... (dance)
all night!
3 Maria ............................... (wear) her new jeans
yesterday.
4 My brother ............................... (watch) the
new U2 video when I phoned.
5 The dogs ............................... (run) around the
garden all afternoon.
6 I was worried because you ...............................
(cry).
7 When I saw Jamie, he ............................... (wait)
for the bus.
8 I didn't hear you because I ...............................
(listen) to music.

PHOTOCOPIABLE

# Cambridge University Press 2006 Module 1 Unit 2 Resources

GRAMMAR PRACTICE

4 Sam ............................. (find) 5 in the street


yesterday!

..................................................................................

UNIT 2 RESOURCES

8 What / you / get / your sister / for Christmas?

Complete the sentences. Use the affirmative


or negative form of the verbs.

2 Amy ............................. (not like) coffee when

1 What time / you / go / the disco?

2 you / stay / the party / for a long time?

3 We .................. (have) lunch at that big Italian


restaurant.

lived
1 My aunt .............................
(live) in the USA
for two years.

Make questions. Use the past simple.

What time did you go to the disco?


..................................................................................

2 I .................. (buy) a fantastic new dress at the


weekend!

Past simple: questions

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