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sPast simple and past progressive.
1. Past simple of the verb “to be”. Fill in the gaps with “was” or “were”, “was not” or “were not”.
When I was a small child…
I ............. born in a small house in a village near Barquisimeto. My mother ............... a homemaker, and my father ................. a farmer. We ............... not poor, but we ................. not rich, either. I.............. never hungry when I ............... a small child. I ............... happy. School .............. easy, but the teachers ............ not always kind to me.
2. Read the following questions. Compare the simple present with the simple past in the first example and then complete the questions using the correct form of the verb "to be" in the past.
Present | Past |
Example:Where is Juan today? | Where was Juan yesterday? |
What day is it today? | What day … |
I am at home this afternoon. | |
What is your mother´s name? | |
We are happy at school. | |
He is not a teacher. | |
She is a coach driver. | |

3: Past simple regular and irregular verbs.
Regular Irregular
(work) (have)
I worked had
You worked had
He worked had
She worked hadIt worked had
We worked had
You worked had
They worked had

I didn´t work didn´t have
You didn´t work didn´t have
He didn´t work didn´t have
Etc…

Did you work? Yes, I did. No, I didn´t.
Did they have a good holiday. Yes, they did. No, they didn´t.

Where did Juan go on holiday last year? He went to Bermuda.
What did Maria do at the weekend? She played bingo with herfriends.

1. Label the boxes A and B: Regular verbs or Irregular verbs. Check you understand the vocabulary.
A:_____________________ | B:__________________________ |
Cook/cooked | Give / gave |
Bake/baked | meet / met |
Work/worked | Eat/ate |
Play/played | Drink/drank |
Prepare/prepared | Is / was are / were |
Grate/grated | Do/did |
Study/studied | Make/made |
Fry/fried | Break/broke |
Roast/roasted | find /found |
Clean/cleaned | Put / put |
Start/started | Buy/bought |
finish – finished | Get/got |
Live/lived | Have/had |
visit – visited | Go/went |

2. Match the sentence halves to make rules about forming regular past forms.
a) Most regular verbs(watch) add d (liked)
b) Verbs ending in e (like) add a consonant and ed (stopped)
c) Verbs ending in consonant and y (study) add ed (watched)
d) Verbs ending in vowel and consonant (stop) delete y and add ied (studied)
3: Read this text and
i. underline all the verbs in the past simple tense.
ii. Circle the verbs in the negative.
iii. Divide the verbs into regular and irregular.
LastSaturday, I got up at 5 o’clock in the morning and I made breakfast for the family. We ate arepas with yellow cheese and ham and we drank orange juice and coffee with milk. We did not eat cereal or toast. Then I went upstairs and got dressed. I went to work at the university but I did not take my children to school. I taught English until 12.30 pm when my partner fetched me in the car and wedrove home.
In the afternoon, I did not go to work but I visited my friends and we shared some beers. It was so hot and my daughter swam in their swimming pool. In the evening, we stayed home and watched tv.
On Sunday, I made a special Sunday lunch. This is an English tradition. In the afternoon, I ate some chocolate and read a book by Peter Stanstead called “The Devil- anautobiography.” It was a relaxing day.
Regular verbs Irregular verbs

4. Label the possible wrongdoings with the vocabulary below:
When I saw you…
Example: 1.… you were telling your stockbroker friend about tomorrow’s announcement of the drop in profits. INSIDER TRADING
2.… a vendor passed you an envelope that looked like it was full of cash.
3.… you relabelled boxes of local whiskey as...