1. Complete these sentences. Use the verbs from the box in Past Indefinite.

To clean, to die, to enjoy, to finish, to happen, to live, to open, to play, to rain, to smoke, to start, to stay, to want, to watch

1. Yesterday evening I watched TV.

2. I …………… my teeth three times yesterday.

3. Bernard …………… 20 cigarettes yesterday evening.

4. The concert last night …………… at 7.30 and …………… at 10 p.m.

5. The accident …………… last Sunday afternoon.

6. When I was a child, I …………… to be a doctor.

7. Mozart …………… from 1756 to 1791.

8. We …………… our holiday last year. We …………… at a very good hotel.

9. Today the weather is nice, but yesterday it ………. .

10. It was hot in the room, so I …………… the window.

11. The weather was good yesterday afternoon, so we …………… tennis.

12. William Shakespeare …………… in 1616.

2. Supply the past forms of the irregular verbs in italics.

1. I often see Giulio. I saw him again only yesterday.

2. As teenagers, we always ….. each other very well. We still understand each other now.

3. I hardly ….. Ray’s wife. Did you know her at all?

4. We always meet on Sunday. We ….. last Sunday as usual.

5. I often find things on the beach. I ….. this very old bottle yesterday.

6. Someone’s always leaving that window open. Who ….. it open this time?

7. I ….. a lot of letters when I was young. I hardly ever write letters now.

8. I have the same car now that I ….. five years ago.

9. Where did you eat last night? – We ….. at a restaurant.

10. I don’t keep pets now, but I ….. a dog when I was a boy.

3. Give complete answers to the questions using the time references in brackets.

Model : How long ago did you work as a civil servant? (five years ago)

I worked as a civil servant five years ago.

1. When did you last play football? (when I was 14)

2. When did the Carters leave for their summer holidays? (last night)

3. What time did John arrive? (at 4 p.m.)

4. When did you last see ‘Gone with the Wind’? (last year)

5. How long did you wait at the airport? (till they arrived)

6. When did Sally tell you about her engagement? (when she was here)

7. When did Alice speak about her last trip? (when we met at a café)

4. Put the correct forms of the Past Indefinite Tense (I did) of the verbs in brackets.

Lizardman

Christopher Davis, a young driver from South Carolina, (to claim) claimed a monster (to attack) _____ him while he was driving along a lonely road. The monster (to be) _____ seven feet tall and (to have) _____ red eyes and green, scaly skin. It (to chase) _____ Christopher’s car and (to jump) _____ on the roof. Many people (to believe) _____ the story and the newspapers (to call) _____ the monster ‘Lizardman’. Seventy hunters recently (to set out) _____ to trap Lizardman and a local radio (to offer) _____ $1 million to anyone who (to capture) _____ him dead or alive. Lizardman had so much publicity that thousands of people (to visit) _____ South Carolina to find him. No one has found him yet. As everyone knows, monsters may or may not exist, but they are very good for the tourist industry.