-PAST SIMPLEComplete the spelling rules with the base forms and the past simple

forms in the box.

stopped

like
stop

answer

liked

answered

travelled carry

carried

preferred

prefer travel

Spelling : past simple affirmative

Normal
answer

+ -ed
Final -e
+ -d
Final consonant + -y
- y + -ied
One syllable word: one vowel + consonant
double consonant + -ed
More than one syllable word + final syllable stressed
double consonant + ed
Verbs ending in -l
double consonant + ed

Write each verb and its past simple form in their correspondent circle.
rob step regret play prefer study clap bake plan carry
wait walk die live cancel reply close cry stay permit

talk-talked

try-tried

stop-stopped

change-changed

refer-referred

travel-travelled

REVISION
Activity 1: Put the verb into the correct form: present simple, present
continuous, past simple or past continuous.
1.
2.
3.
4.

We can go out now. It ________________________ (not / rain) any more.

Catherine __________________ (wait) for me when I ____________ (arrived).
I ____________________ (get) hungry. Lets go and have something to eat.
What ____________________ (you/do) in your spare time? Do you have any
hobbies?
5. The weather was horrible when we _______________ (arrive). It was cold and it
______________ (rain) hard.
6. Louise usually __________________ (phone) me on Fridays, but she
______________ (not/phone) last Friday.
7. A: When I last saw you, you _____________________ (think) of moving to a
new flat.
B: Thats right, but in the end I __________________ (decide) to stay where I
was.
8. Why __________________ (you/look) at me like that? Whats the matter?
9. Its usually dry here at this time of the year. It _______________ (not/rain)
much.
10. The phone __________________ (ring) three times while we ______________
(have) dinner last night.
11. Linda was busy when we _____________________ (go) to see her yesterday.
She had an exam today and she _________________ (prepare) for it. We
________________ (not /want) to disturb her, so we _______________
(not/stay) very long.
12. When I first _______________ (tell) Tom the news, he _________________
(not/believe) me. He ____________________ (think) that I _______________
(joke).

Activity 2: Draw a timeline for each different sentence.

1. I saw you in the park yesterday. You were sitting on the grass and reading a
book.
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2. I was walking along the road when I saw Dave. I stopped and we had a chat.
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3. When Karen arrived, we were having dinner.
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4. When Karen arrived, we had dinner.

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5. When Karen arrived, we had had dinner.
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6. They were playing computer games when their fathers computer broke down.
When they were trying to fix it, their father came in the room. He told them that
the computer had broken down because they had downloaded a game that
contained a virus.

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Activity 3: Organize the sentences coherently by using the right connectors

and transform the verbs into a past tense: past simple, past continuous, past
perfect. There may be more than one correct answer.
1. I feel someone was approaching me.
We spend the afternoon at the police station.
I stop to take a picture of Danny.
It is a pickpocket.
Last summer, we walk down Las Ramblas Street.
He steals my purse.

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2.

A man comes from nowhere.

I dont hit him.
I cycle home yesterday.
He steps out into the road in front of me.
I go quite fast.
I manage to stop in time.

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3.

They go to Berlin to visit some friends.

We have a long chat.
I meet Tom and Ann at the airport a few weeks ago.
I go to Madrid on a business trip
We wait for our flights.

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4.

They have to cancel the operation.

He talks on the phone for some seconds.
The surgeon operates on an old woman.
He starts to feel sick.
The nursing auxiliary announces him that he has an important telephone call.

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Activity 4: Unscramble the following questions and write full made up

answers.
1. Barack Obama he taken Who photograph with was when the was?
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2. Javier Bardem you about Penelope Cruz when them saw What and in street the
talking were?
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3. was year doing What Lady Gaga time this last?

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4. Angelina Jolie they their What Brad Pitt were city to when going flight lost?
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5. meet staying Beyonc London Who was while staying did she in?
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Activity 5: Watch this 5-minute video titled A Clean Sweep and write down
what happens in it by using past verbal tensess.
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