PAST SIMPLE Exercises

Past Simple Exercices

• Simple Past /
• Past Continuous
• You are going to write these exerciseses in your notebook and do from 1 to 15 to present your teeacher NEXT CLASS. Using the words
• in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses,
• 1.A: What (you, do)___________________ when the
• accident occurred?
• B: I (try)___________ to change a light
• bulb that had burnt out.
• 2. After I (find) __________the wallet full of money, I (go, immediately) ___________to the police and
• (turn) it in.
• 3. The doctor (say)___________ that Tom (be)_________ too sick to go to work and that he (need) ______to stay at home for a couple of days.
• 4. Sebastian (arrive) ___________at Susan's house a little before 9:00 PM, but she (be, not) ___________there. She (study, at the library)_________________ for her final examination in French.
• 5. Sandy is in the living room watching television. At this time yesterday, she
• (watch, also)___________________ television. That's all she ever does!

Slide 2

• 6.
• A: I (call) _______________you last night after dinner, but you (be, not) there. Where were you?
• B: I (work)_______________ out at the fitness center.
• 7. When I (walk)___________ into the busy office, the secretary (talk) ___________on the phone with a customer, several clerks (work, busily) at their desks, and two managers (discuss, quietly)____________ methods to improve customer service.
• 8. I (watch)______________ a mystery movie on TV when the electricity went out. Now I am never
• going to find out how the movie ends.
• 9. Sharon (be)________________ in the room when John told me what happened, but she didn't hear
• anything because she (listen, not)_______________ .
• 10. It's strange that you (call)_________________ because I (think, just)__________________ about you.

Slide 3

• 11. The Titanic (cross)____________ the Atlantic
• when it (strike) an iceberg.
• 12. When I entered the bazaar, a couple of merchants (bargain, busily)_______________ and (try)_______________ to sell their
• goods to naive tourists who (hunt)___________ for souvenirs.
• Some young boys (lead)____________ their donkeys
• through the narrow streets on their way home. A couple of men (argue) over the price
• of a leather belt. I (walk)___________ over to a man
• who (sell)_____________ fruit and (buy)___________ a banana.
• 13. The firemen (rescue)_______ the old woman
• who (be)___________trapped on the
• third floor of the burning building.
• 14. She was so annoying! She (leave, always) _____________her dirty dishes in the sink. I think she
• (expect, actually)_____________ me to do them
• for her.
• 15. Samantha (live)______________ in Berlin for more than two years. In fact, she (live) ______________there when the Berlin Wall came down.