English Exercises: Past Simple Affirmative

Downloadable worksheets:

PAST SIMPLE-GRAMMAR PRACTICE
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
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PAST SIMPLE - AFFIRMATIVE, NEGATIVE and INTERROGATIVE FORMS (+KEY) - FULLY EDITABLE
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
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What did these people do yesterday?
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
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Present Simple or Past Simple
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
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VERB “TO BE” (PAST SIMPLE )- AFFIRMATIVE, NEGATIVE and INTERROGATIVE FORMS (+KEY) - FULLY EDITABLE
Level: elementary
Age: 9-17
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Verb to be (Simple past) / Grammar + Exercise + Answer key + Game
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
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Past Simple Affirmative

THE BEATLES: YESTERDAY

1. Listen to this song and complete the lyrics with the past simple of the verbs in the box.

use come seem be have say

Yesterday,
All my troubles so far away,
Now it looks as though they're here to stay,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
I'm not half the man I to be,
There's a shadow hanging over me,
Oh, yesterday suddenly.

Why she
to go I don't know, she wouldn't say.
I ,
Something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday,
Love such an easy game to play,
Now I need a place to hide away,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Why she
to go I don't know, she wouldn't say.
I ,
Something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday,
Love such an easy game to play,
Now I need a place to hide away,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.

2. Write the past simple form of the following verbs.

go - play - win - feed - see -

study- leave - live - eat- bring -

feel - dance - die - read - know -

buy - drive - love - write - shine -

give - hate - do - catch - become -