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Simple Past Tense

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Simple Past Tense

Regular and Irregular Verbs

I. MATCHING: What do they do? Match the pictures and sentences by writing the right number before the sentences.

She ate a sandwich yesterday.
He studied for his exam last week.
She swam in a competition last summer.
He went shopping last weekend.
He played soccer for the school soccer team last week.
She watched the weather broadcast on TV last weekend.

II. Check () the correct Simple Past Tense of the verbs.

Base form	Simple Past
stay	staied	stayed	stayyed
watch	watcheed	watched	watcheed
stop	stopied	stoped	stopped
try	tried	tryed	tryied
spend	spended	spent	spented
have	haved	has	had
go	went	wented	goed
take	taked	took	tooked

III. Write the correct SIMPLE PAST TENSE verb in the blanks.

1.         His mother shopping. (go)
2.         He a Spelling Bee contest. (have)
3.         He soccer on Saturday morning. (play)
4.         He TV on Sunday morning. (watch)
5.    He in a competition. (swim)
6.    He social work. (do)