Exercise 1: Simple Past Tense Worksheet

This worksheet focuses on the Simple Past tense in English. Let's complete all three exercises:

Exercise 1: Match the verbs

In this exercise, you need to match the base form of the verb on the left with its past simple form on the right.

Here are the correct matches:
1. Read → Read
2. Play → Played
3. Visit → Visited
4. Hide → Hid
5. Swim → Swam
6. Return → Returned
7. Travel → Travelled
8. Watch → Watched
9. Sing → Sang
10. Tidy → Tidied
11. Go → Went
12. Eat → Ate
13. Write → Wrote
14. Live → Lived
15. See → Saw
16. Talk → Talked

Exercise 2: Complete the sentences with the Past Simple form of the verbs

Let's fill in the blanks with the correct past simple form of the verbs in brackets:

1. They took lots of delicious vegetables from the farm(take).
2. Last evening, he made 20 delicious sandwiches(make).
3. My granny lived in a small village when she was a child(live).
4. I visited my American family last summer(visit).
5. She wrote twenty-five postcards yesterday(write).
6. My sister sent lots of postcards during her holiday(send).
7. My brother was a famous actor in the museum(be).

Exercise 3: Put these sentences into negative

To make past simple sentences negative, we use "did not" (didn't) + base form of the verb:

1. I walked the dog last night. → I didn't walk the dog last night.
2. Fred and Joe went fishing last Saturday. → Fred and Joe didn't go fishing last Saturday.
3. She tidied her room yesterday afternoon. → She didn't tidy her room yesterday afternoon.
4. I rode a scooter yesterday. → I didn't ride a scooter yesterday.
5. They read the latest Harry Potter book. → They didn't read the latest Harry Potter book.