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Aim

To practise the past simple tense

Activity
Students complete sentences and questions.
Organization
Individual / pair work.
Preparation
Make enough copies of the worksheet for the number of students in your class.
What do I do?
1 Hand out the worksheet.
2 Students complete the sentences and corresponding questions by choosing verbs from the list and putting them in the correct form.

Answers
1 What did he eat? ate
2 Where did you go? went
3 How did they travel? travelled
4 When did you leave school? left
5 What time did you get up this morning? got up
6 What time did the movie start? started
7 What did he buy last week? bought
8 Where did she go? went

BUY
GET UP
TRAVEL
START
EAT
GO (x2)
LEAVE

1. ______________________________________________________?
He _______________ an apple.

2. ______________________________________________________?
We _______________ to the cinema.

3. ______________________________________________________?
They _______________ by train.

4. ______________________________________________________?
I _______________ school in 1990.

5. ______________________________________________________?
I _______________ at 8:00 this morning.

6. ______________________________________________________?
The movie _______________ at 10:00.

7. ______________________________________________________?
He _______________ a new car last week.

8. ______________________________________________________?
She _______________ to see a friend.

Printable version of Past simple questions and other worksheets