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The Simple Past: Practice

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The Simple Past Tense

Practice

Write the following regular verbs in the Simple Past and indicate how you pronounce the last sound.

Infinitive	Past Tense	Pronunciation
use	used	d
study
stop
complete
finish
wait
close
start
cook
laugh

Find the past tense of the following irregular verbs in the word search. They are placed vertically or horizontally.

take fall choose bring blow hear pay go fly sing know win buy say

Joe and Jill talk about their weekend. Choose the correct words.

Joe: Where on Saturday?

Jill: I at a concert.

Joe: Who ?

Jill: My favourite band. They brilliant.

Joe: with you?

Jill: No, She to the cinema with Agatha.

Joe: What ?

Jill: MI: 3. They it very much.

Write in the missing parts of the dialogue using the given cues.

Sam: I want to take a poetry course

Sue: Really? My brother (take) a poetry course two years ago

Sam: (he/like) it?

Sue: Yes. He (find) it very interesting

Sam: What about you?

Sue: I (not/take) that course. You see I (do) a language course.