1. Put the verb to be into the necessary form in Past Simple:

1. We …at the theatre yesterday.

2. My brother … in Paris some years ago.

3. They … good friends.

4. Peter … my best friend at school.

5. That tea … very sweet.

6. Where … you in the morning?

7. Jane … one of the best pupils in her class.

8. He … very tired yesterday.

9. It … a very nice morning.

10. Nick … the tallest boy in his group.

11. They … in London in January.

12. Shakespeare … the most famous playwright in England.

13. Yesterday it … my son’s birthday.

14. On Sunday we … at the football match.

2. Write the three forms of the following words:

To be, to make, to learn, to stand, to wake, to see, to get, to leave, to do, to forget, to go, to have, to give, to keep, to write, to read, to sleep, to throw, to dig, to think, to sing, to meet, to break, to cut, to eat, to find, to hear, to know, to drink, to draw, to buy, to bring, to grow.

3. Rewrite the following story using the Past Simple Tense:

I usually get up at 6 o’clock. I go to the bathroom and take a shower. After that I dress and drink coffee with some sandwiches. After the breakfast I go to the university. I usually have three classes. After the lessons I go to the canteen with my friends. There we have dinner. Then we go to the reading hall of the university library to do our homework. We usually do our homework there.

4. Make the following sentences negative:

1. We finished our work at 10 o’clock.

2. Yesterday I saw an accident.

3. Two years ago my friend left for the USA.

4. Yesterday Mary got up at 7 o’clock.

5. My grandmother used to like cooking when she was younger.

6. He applied for a job some days ago.

7. The passengers complained about the delay.

8. Peter’s father used to live in Columbia.

9. In our childhood we played hide-and-seek

10. James finished school last year.

11. I met Peter’s brother yesterday at the lecture.

12. We enjoyed our last week end.

13. When I was at school my only ambition was to become a singer.

14. I left school at 19.

5. Ask questions to the following sentences:

1. Tom wanted to phone to Riga.

2. My father built a new house.

3. They wanted to buy a new flat.

4. They swam yesterday.

5. Mike brought me some water.

6. Jane wrote a letter to her friend.

7. They used to buy that magazine when they lived in Moscow.

8. He wanted to drink apple juice.

9. We saw John in the yard.

10. He bought a new TV-set yesterday.

11. I got up at 10 o’clock on Sunday.

12. She forgot his telephone number.

13. They wanted to the cinema.

14. Mary left Minsk some days ago.

6. Put the verbs in brackets into Past Simple.

Some years ago I … (to be) a student. I … (to be) a student. I … (to live) in London. I … (to study) English literature. I (to live) in a hostel with two other students. Our lessons … (to begin) at 9 o’clock. I … (to spend) much time at the university. I also often … (to work) in the reading room of our library. On Saturdays I often … (to visit) students’ disco club with my friends. We (to dance) and (to drink) juice.