Exercise

Translate the sentences.

1. Она была занята. (to be busy) 

2. Я не был занят. 

3. Вы были заняты? 

4. Они были дома? (to be at home) 

5. Его не было дома. 

6. Я не знал. 

7. Они знали? 

8. Она не знала. 

9. Кто знал? 

10. Никто не знал. 

11. Он читал английские книги? (to read English books) 

12. Они никогда не читали. (never / to read) 

13. У неё была квартира? (to have a flat) 

14. У него ничего не было. 

15. Кто это был?

Exercise

Write the texts in the past.

Text 1

On Monday we have five lessons. The first lesson is English. At this lesson we write a dictation and do some exercises. Nick goes to the blackboard.  He answers well and gets a "five". Pete does not get a "five" because he does not know his lesson. After the second lesson I go to the canteen. I eat a sandwich and drink a cup of tea. I do not drink milk. After school I do not go home at once. I go to the library and take a book. Then I go home. 

 Text 2

On Tuesday I get up at half past six. I go to the bathroom and wash my hands and face and clean my teeth. Then I dress, go to the kitchen and cook breakfast for my family. At half past seven my son gets up and has breakfast. I have breakfast with my son. My son eats a sandwich and drinks a cup of tea. I don't drink tea. I drink coffee. After Breakfast my son leaves home for school. I don't leave home with my son. On Tuesday I don't work in the morning. I work in the afternoon. In the evening I am at home. My husband and my son areat home, too. We rest in the evening. My son watches TV, my husband reads newspapers and I do some work about the house. At about eleven o'clock we go to bed.

 Text 3

Barry waked up when it was already quite light.  He looked at his watch. It was a quarter to seven. Quick! Barry jumped out of bed and ran to the bath-room. He had just time to take a cold shower and I drank a glass of tea with bread and butter. He was in a hurry to catch the eight o'clock train. At the railway station he met three other boys from his group. They all had small backpacks and fishing-rods. In less than an hour they got off the train at a small station near a wood. They walked very quickly and soon found themselves on the shore of a large lake. The boys spent the whole day there fishing, boating and swimming. They returned home late at night, tired but happy.

 

Exercise

Fill in the blanks using Past Indefinite.

1. I (to go) to the gym at seven o'clock every day. 

2. I (to go) to the gym at seven o'clock yesterday.

3. John (to clean) his teeth every morning at 7.30 o’clock. 

4. Yesterday John (to clean) his teeth at a half past seven in the morning. 

5. Jane (not to do) English exercises every day. 

6. Jane (not to do) English exercises yesterday. 

7. His brother (to drink) coffee with milk every day. 

8. His brother (to drink) coffee with milk yesterday. 

9. Her husband (to like) his job. He (to go) to his office by bus. He (to go) to the office at 9 am every day. 

10. Her husband usually (to go) to his office by bus. He (to come) to the office at 9.30 am yesterday.

 

Exercise

Fill in the blanks using Past Indefinite or Present Indefinite.

1. I (to study) English every day. 

2. You (to come) to my place yesterday? 

3. He (to live) in Dubai. 

4. How long it (to take) you to get to the City Mall?

5. What you (to study) every Friday?

6. We (to have) dinner with my family yesterday. 

7. His computer (to be) ready yesterday.

8. My friend (to like) running in the park every morning. 

9. Their family (to invite) everybody to the party last week. 

10. Jesse always (to come) to work early.

11. Alice (to have) a sister. 

12. Her sister’s name (to be) Ann. 

13. Ann (to be) a student. 

14. She (to get) up at seven o'clock.

15. She (to go) to the institute in the morning. 

16. Jane (to be) fond of sports. 

17. She (to do) her morning exercises every day. 

18. For breakfast she (to have) two eggs, a sandwich and a cup of tea. 

19. After breakfast she (to go) to the institute. 

20. Sometimes she (to take) a bus. 

21. It (to take) her an hour and a half to do her homework. 

22. She (to speak) English well. 

23. Her friends usually (to call) her at about 8 o’clock. 

24. Ann (to take) a shower before going to bed. 

25. She (to go) to bed at 11 p. m.

Exercise

Fill in the blanks using Past Indefinite.

1. He … (drive) his grandfather to the doctor.

2. Jack … (wear) a strange red tie.

3. Little Greg … (blow) out 5 candles on his birthday cake.

4. They … (hold) an opera festival in August.

5. We accidentally … (break) the umbrella.

6. My daughter … (lose) her way in a new city.

7. My mother … (make) vanilla pancakes in the morning.

8. Mary … (write) a long note in her diary.

9. Our cat … (catch) three mice in the garden.

10. I … (go) to the ballet school in my childhood.

Exercise

Make questions to the sentences.

1. Mike went to England a month ago.

a) Who? b) Where?

2. The boys played games out of doors last Sunday.

a) Who? b) When?

3. The children stayed at the seaside for two weeks a year ago.

a) Where? b) When?

Exercise

Write the words in the correct order.

1. film? / like / you / Did / the /

2. you / many / did / ask? / How / people /

3. a / have / time? / they / Did / good /

4. did / weekend? / the / What / do / we / at /

5. she / DVD? / Where / that / did / buy /

6. party / on / your / go / Saturday? / he / Did / to /

7. did / yesterday? / Who / you / see /

Exercise

Correct the sentences

1. Did he went to school yesterday?

2. Why did you to go home early?

3. Where you did learn English?

4. Did she works today?

5. What do you this yesterday?

6. Did they last night phone you?

Exercise

Tell the story in the past. Write out the verbs.

Zoo Job

One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zoo keeper grabs him and drags him into his office. The zoo keeper explains to the mime that the zoo's most popular attraction, a gorilla, has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off.

He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla until they can get another one. The mime accepts.

So the next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He discovers that it's a great job. He can sleep all he wants, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime. However, eventually the crowds tire of him and he tires of just swinging on tires. He begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition, and dangles from the top to the lion's cage. Of course, this makes the lion furious, but the crowd loves it.

At the end of the day the zoo keeper comes and gives the mime a raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this goes on for some time, the mime keeps taunting the lion, the crowds grow larger, and his salary keeps going up. Then one terrible day when he is dangling over the furious lion he slips and falls. The mime is terrified.

The lion gathers itself and prepares to pounce. The mime is so scared that he begins to run round and round the cage with the lion close behind. Finally, the mime starts screaming and yelling, "Help me, help me!", but the lion is quick and pounces. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, "Shut up you idiot! Do you want to get us both fired?"

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