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English Grammar Exercises for A1 – Past simple affirmative: irregular verbs

6 esercizi

1. Write the past simple form of the verbs.

  • 1)
    begin
  • 2)
    break
  • 3)
    buy
  • 4)
    take
  • 5)
    grow
  • 6)
    have
  • 7)
    say
  • 8)
    sing

2. Complete the sentences with verbs from exercise 1.

  • 1)
    My mum some pizzas at the supermarket.
  • 2)
    ‘Good morning, everyone,’ the teacher.
  • 3)
    Liam lunch in a café in town.
  • 4)
    I to study English when I was eight.
  • 5)
    Martin a song at the school concert.
  • 6)
    Last year, we potatoes in our garden.
  • 7)
    David a train from London to Edinburgh.
  • 8)
    Oh, no! Who this glass?

3. Put the time expressions in order, with the most recent first.

  • last month last night last week last year
  • the day before yesterday three months ago
  • two years ago yesterday afternoon yesterday morning
  • 1)
    last night
  • 2)
  • 3)
  • 4)
  • 5)
  • 6)
  • 7)
  • 8)
  • 9)

4. Rewrite the sentences in the past tense. Add the time expression in brackets.

  • 1)
    I wear trainers to school. (yesterday)
  • I wore trainers to school yesterday.
  • 2)
    Sally and I take the bus to school. (the day before yesterday)
  • 3)
    Susan sleeps until ten o’clock. (yesterday morning)
  • 4)
    My dad does a lot of housework. (last week)
  • 5)
    I spend a lot of money on clothes. (last weekend)
  • 6)
    My mum makes cakes. (yesterday afternoon)

5. Complete the text. Use the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. Then listen and check.

Audio
  • ALBERT EINSTEIN 1) (be) born in 1879 in Germany. He 2) (hate) school. His teachers 3) (think) he wasn’t very clever, and he 4) (leave) school at the age of fifteen. But he 5) (love) science, and he 6) (read) lots of books on his own. When he was 23, he 7) (move) to Switzerland and 8) (get) a job in an office. In his free time, he 9) (write) about physics and the universe, and he 10) (send) his work to universities. In 1994, he 11) (return) to Germany and 12) (become) a professor at a university in Berlin. There, he developed new ideas about time, space and atoms. In 1921, he 13) (win) the Nobel Prize for Physics.
  • In 1933, he 14) (decide) to leave Germany and 15) (go) to the USA, where he 16) (live) for the rest of his life. He 17) (die) in 1955 at the age of 76. Few people 18) (can) understand his ideas at that time, but now they are an important part of physics.

6. Challenge!

  • Challenge!
  • Write five sentences about yourself. Use the past simple and time expressions from exercise 3.
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