The verbs in brackets are in the present tense. Can you turn them into past tense? Listen to the song and check your answers.

There _____ (is) a time when men _____ (are) kind
When their voices ____ (are) soft
And their words inviting
There _____ (is) a time when love _____ (is) blind
And the world _____ (is) a song
And the song _____ (is) exciting
There ____ (is) a time

Then it all _____ (go) wrong

I _______ (dream) a dream in time gone by
When hope _____ (is) high and life worth living
I _________(dream) that love would never die
I _________(dream) that God would be forgiving
Then I ______ (am) young and unafraid
And dreams ______ (are) made and used and wasted
There ______ (is) no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
As they turn your dream to shame
He _______ (sleep) a summer by my side
He _______ (fill) my days with endless wonder
He _______ (take) my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn _______ (come)
And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
I ______ (have) a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it _______ (seem)
Now life has killed the dream
I ________ (dream)

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This listening activity proposes two fill in the gaps exercises to practice regular and irregular verbs in the past simple tense.