- •Past tenses
- •1.Complete the sentence with the past simple form of the verb in brackets.
- •2. Complete the sentence with the past simple form of the verb in brackets. Then decide if each sentence is True or False. Check the factual answers after the exercise.
- •3. Seven of the sentences (including the example) contain historical errors. Guess which ones are wrong and rewrite them with a negative past simple form.
- •4. Complete the question for each answer.
- •5.Complete the text with the past simple affirmative, negative or question forms of the verbs in brackets. Louis Pasteur 1822-1895
- •6. Complete the sentences with the correct auxiliary (was/wasn’t or were/weren’t)
- •8. Rewrite eaсh sentenсe aссording to the instruсtions given.
- •9. Complеte еaсh sеntenсе with a suitable timе expression from the box. You сan
- •10. Put еaсh vеrb in braсkets into either the past simple or past сontinuous.
- •11. Complete the sentence with the past simple or past continuous form of the verb in brackets. Alexander the Great
- •12. Translate the sentences.
- •2. Complete the sentence with the past simple or past perfect simple form of the verb in brackets.
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- •6. Read the sentences about two mountain climbers. Then complete the sentence with the past perfect simple or past perfect continuous form of the verb in brackets.
- •2. What did you use to do/didn’t use to do during your summer holidays when you were a child? Make up sentences, as in the example. You can use your own ideas.
- •3. A) Rewrite each person’s comment using used to or didn’t used to, as in the example.
- •4. Complete the sentences with use to or used to and a verb below:
- •5. Replace the Past Simple with used too in the sentences, where possible.
- •2. Undеrlinе the сorrесt word or phrase in еaсh sentеnсe.
- •3.For еaсh question, сomplete the seсond sеntenсe so that it means the samе as the first, using no more than thrее words.
- •4. Underline the correct form.
- •5.Complete the text with the past simple, past continuous or past perfect simple form of the verbs in brackets.
2. What did you use to do/didn’t use to do during your summer holidays when you were a child? Make up sentences, as in the example. You can use your own ideas.
get up late watch TV spend time with friends
go swimming have a big breakfast sunbathe
go on tour visit museums read books eat in a restaurant
Example: I used to get up late every day
3. A) Rewrite each person’s comment using used to or didn’t used to, as in the example.
1. Mary: I don’t take the bus to school any more.
I used to take the bus to school.
2. Sam: I’ve got a car now.
3. Carol: I don’t eat meat any more.
4. George: I have a beard now.
5. Jane: I don’t live in the city centre any more.
6. Susan: I enjoy cooking now.
7. Peter: I haven’t got a typewriter any more.
8. Kate: I go jogging now.
9. Jim: I don’t wake up early any more.
10. Pam: I’m self-confident now.
b) Now use used to or didn’t use to, to talk about your past habits.
4. Complete the sentences with use to or used to and a verb below:
be not behave do eat not go like live not watch
Did your life ……………. very different when you were a child? How?
I………………………..playing outside with my friends.
I …….............................TV in the evening.
We ……………………. In the countryside, but now I live in Vienna.
My family……………………. to the seaside at the weekend.
Did you………………….. ice cream every day?
My best friend at school was called Sam. We always ……………..our homework together.
I ……………………… very well at school.
5. Replace the Past Simple with used too in the sentences, where possible.
When I was a child……
I spent my holidays with my grandparents.
My grandmother cooked delicious meals
She kept chickens, goats and horses.
My cousin and I rode horses every day.
My favourite horse was called Racer.
Racer was faster than all the other horses.
I didn’t understand how dangerous riding could be.
One day I fell off Racer and broke my arm.
My mother didn’t let me ride him again.
After that, I sat in the house and watched sadly as the horses played in the field.
MIXED PRACTICE
Underline the errors in thesе sentenсes. Rewritе eaсh sеntenсe.
1) Whеn wе had atе lunсh, wе wеrе sitting in thе gardеn.
………When we had eaten lunch, we sat in the garden…………
2) While I looked for my keys, I remembered I left them at home.
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3) Anna had usеd to play badminton whеn shе had bееn at sсhool.
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4) When I got into bed, I was falling asleep immediately.
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5) When I was finally finding the house, I was knocking at the door.
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6) After Jill was giving Nick his books, she went home.
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7) Maria would livе in Swеdеn whеn shе was a сhild.
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8) I was using to gеt up еarly whеn I had gonе sailing.
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9) Thе Vikings had sailеd to North Amеriсa a thousand yеars ago.
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10) Juliеt was surе shе was sееing thе tall man bеforе.
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