Pasado Simple. Ejercicios y Teoría.

El past simple de la mayoría de los verbos regulares se forma añadiendo -ed al infinitivo sin to y es igual para todas las personas, incluyendo la tercera del singular. Los verbos irregulares no siguen ninguna regla para formar el pasado y algunos hasta tienen un past simple regular y otro irregular.

USOS

• Una acción o una serie de acciones ocurridas en el pasado. I saw a film last night.

• Una acción concreta que ocurrió mientras estaba en proceso otra acción más larga. She was walking to the cinema when she saw her friend.

EXERCISES

1. Complete the sentences with the pairs of verbs below. Use the Past simple affirmative.

• Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, ____________ (sail) from Portugal in 1497. He _____________ (reach) India in 1498.

• Ray Tomlimson ______________ (invent) e-mail in 1971. He ____________ (send) an e-mail to his friends to tell them.

• Peter Skyllberg ____________ (survive) for two month in his car after a snowstorm. He _____________ (eat) snow to stay alive!

• In Australia, a family dog called River ____________ (fight) a snake and _____________ (save) two young girls.

• In 2000, Prince William _____________ (volunteer) in Chile. He ___________ (teach) English in schools.

2. Put one of these verbs in each sentence:

Hurt teach       spend throw       fall      catch buy cost

• Tom’s father ___________ him how to drive when he was 17.

• Don ____________ down the stairs this morning and _________his leg.

• We needed some money, so we ____________our car.

• Ann _____________a lot of money yesterday. She __________ a dress that ____________$80.

• Jim _____________ the ball to Sue, who ____________it.

3. Write questions. A friend has just come back from vacation and you are asking about it.

• How long / stay there? ____________________________________

• Stay in a hotel? _________________________________________

• Go alone? _________________________________________

• How/ travel? ______________________________________________

• The weather / nice ? ______________________________________

• Meet any interesting people?______________________________

4. Put the verb into the correct form. Use the simple past.

• Tom _________________( not/go) to work yesterday because __________ (not/be) well.

• We ____________(not/eat) anything because we _____________(not/be) hungry.

• I ____________(not/rush) because I ___________(not/be) hungry.

• She ________________(not/be) interested in the book because she _____________ (not/understand) it.

5. Write the simple past forms of the verbs:
   

Drive _________

Eat __________

Give _________

Go __________

Know _________

Live __________

Play ___________

See ___________

Sing __________

Sit ___________

Study __________

Talk __________

Teach __________

Walk _________

Want __________

Teach ___________

Volunteer___________

Save ____________

Invent ______________

Send________________

Sail _________________

Reach_______________

Survive______________

Eat ________________

Go _______________

Fall _________________

Wait _______________

Have _______________

Improve_____________

Know ______________

Use _______________

Climb ______________

Fight_______________

6.      Complete the sentences. Use the past simple affirmative of the verbs in the box.

Dance go have      listen to   meet     phone   say   watch

• He _________ an old friend, Denise.

• Paul and Denise ___________ some excellent music.

• They ____________all night.

• Paul _____________his family at midnight.

• He ___________”Happy New Year!”.

• Paul and Denise __________ the sunrise.

• They _________ a really good time.

7. Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets in Past Simple.

• On 26th April 2003, Aron Ralston _____________(go) hiking in Bluejohn Canyon in the USA.

• A 360 – kilogram rock _____________(fall) on his arm.

• Ralston ___________(wait) for many hours, but there _____________(not be) any people around to help him.

• He __________________(be) hungry and thirsty because he _____________(not have) much food or water.

• His condition _____________(not improve) and he ______________(not know) how to scape.

•  After five days, he _________________(use) his knife to cut off his own arm!

• With only one arm, Ralston ____________(climb) out of the canyon and ___________(survive) his terrible accident!

8. Put the words in the correct order.

• Did/ when / go / ? / you

• Go / did / with your parents / ? / you

• To the museum? / your dad / did / drive

• You / did / see /anything interesting?

• Did/ how long / stay? / you

• Leave? / did / you/ what time

• You / like / did/ it?

• Buy?/ what / you / did 

9. Complete the sentences using the verbs in the box and the past Simple.

Take feel have put see  say make  leave steal

• Somebody _____________Dan’s bag.

• Dan ___________ embarrassed.

• John came into the classroom. He _____________ TWO bags.

• Dan __________ his bag on the desk.

• Dan returned and ____________ his bag wasn’t on the desk.

• John ___________, “Hi Dan, ______________ a mistake. Our bags are the same and I took yours. Sorry!

• He ________________ the classroom.

• Dan said, “Where is my bag? Who ____________my bag?”

10. Complete the text with the verbs in brackets. Use the correct form of the Past Simple.

The first Newspaper

How  ____________ people ____________ (get) news before the invention of the newspaper? ________________ they _______________(hear) the news in other ways? Thousands of years ago, many people never ______________(go) to school, so they __________________(know) how to read or write. They ____________(meet) on the streets or in the center of town and they ____________(tell) each other about the news. Then, in 59 BC, the Romans _____________(create) the first newspaper, but they _____________(sell) it to people. They ____________ (put) it in different places around town. People _____________(read) the newspaper at those places and ______________(learn) about battle and other important news of the day.

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