A. Read the story. Answer the questions.

1 Where did Tom and Peter meet?2 What did they want to play?3 Did the boys play basketball?

Yesterday afternoon, I invited Peter to go to the playground to play basketball with me. We met there at 5.00 o’clock. There were some older boys there playing football. We wanted to join them, but they didn’t want to play with us. So Peter and I decided to find some other place to play. We went to a nearby park. When we arrived there we saw some kids fighting. They were of our age. We tried to help, but we couldn’t. One of the boys even punched me so hard that I fell down. Peter started to call for help. There were some older kids in the park too, but they didn’t want to help. I somehow managed to get out of the park and I saw my father. He didn’t see me, so I had to shout.

B. Complete the sentences from the story.

1 Tom _____ Peter to go to the playground with him.2 We _____ to help, but we couldn’t.3 Peter _____ to call for help.

C. Complete the table with the verbs from the story.

This is the past simple tense, affirmative – regular verbs. What do we add to regular verbs to make simple past affirmative?

Most verbs + -ed

Verbs ending in – e + -d

Verbs ending –y after a consonant – remove –y and add -ied

punch - _________want - _________start - _________invite - _________decide - _________arrive - _________manage - _________try - _________

D. Read and compare. How do we make negative forms?

1 Peter started to call for help.1 a Peter didn’t start to call for help.2 I tried to help.2 a I din’t try to help.

*We use ___________ + infinitive (verb without – ed / -d) to make the negative of the past simple of regular verbs.

E. Complete these sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the simple past. Write the negatvie forms, too.

Example: Mum opened (open) the door for us.Mum didn’t open the door for us.

1 That event ____________ (happen) lon ago. That event _______ _______ long ago.2 They ____________ (walk) to school together yesterday. They _______ _______ to school together yesterday.3 Dad ____________ (try) to fix the light. Dad _______ _______ to fix the light.

F. Complete the sentences rom the story.

1 We _____ there at five o’clock.2 Tom _____ his father.

Grammar note

These are irregular verbs. There is no rule to make these verbs. You need to learn the form for each verb:

bend - bent have – had see - sawbreak – broke hear – heard take - tookbring - brought keep – kept tell - toldbuy – bought lose – lost fall - fell meet - met fly - flew sell - soldget – got shoot - shotgo - went sleep – slept

G. Complete the sentences with the correct simple past of the verbs in brackets.

1 I _____ (lose) my pen on the bus.2 We _____ (sell) our car last week.3 The baby _____ (sleep) right through the night.4 Peter _____ (get) a watch for his birthday.

H. Past simple – irregular verbs – negative forms.

a) Complete the sentence from the story.

I saw my father, but he ______ ______ me.

*To make the neagtive of the past simple tense of irregular verbs, we use didn’t and the infinitive (first form) of the verb.

1

b) Make these sentences negative.Example:He broke the window yesterday. He didn’t break the window yesterday .

1 I heard a noise in the night.__________________________________.2 He brought his pet mouse to school.__________________________________.

3 My book fell off the desk.__________________________________.

SIMPLE PAST – QUESTIONS

A. Read these two sentences. How do we make questions? Complete the rules.

1 He watched TV all day.1 a Did he watch TV all day?2 He went to London.2 a Did he go to London?

*To make questions in the past simple we use _____ and the infinitive. We put Did ____________ the subject.

B. Make questions.

Example:

She tried to help. Did she try to help ?

1 He fell off a horse yesterday._____________________________?2 She bought a new computer last week._____________________________?3 They invited me to their party._____________________________?4 She studied French when she was in France._____________________________?

C. Make questions an give short answers.

Example:A: _______________________ (you/see) him yesterday?B: Yes, ___________.

A: Did you see him yesterday?B:Yes, I did .

1 A: _____________________ (Tom / break) that window? B: Yes, ___________ .2 A: _____________________ (you and Sue / arrive)yesterday? B: No, ___________ .

3 A: _____________________ (your friends / want)to help? B: Yes, ___________

D. Match the sentences to the picures.

1 The wicked Queen gave Snow White a poisoned apple.3 Pinocchio’s nose grew longer every time he told a lie.4 Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago.a.

b.

c.

Answers:1 - ___ 2 - ___ 3 - ___

*We use the simple past tense to talk about things that happened in the past. The simple past tense is also used to talk about things that happened in stories

2