LESSON 1A VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
Past Simple Tense - Complete Exercises and Stories
📚 Table of Contents
📖 1. Forum Stories - Reading Comprehension
👩🏫 Huda's Story
25 October 7.42 p.m.
"A few weeks ago, I started a volunteer project at a nursery school. The teacher took her chair and went to the back of the room. I was really nervous to read to the children, but they were great. They paid attention, they didn't shout and they put their hands up to ask questions. After a while I asked them to draw a picture and I sat down. The children were amazing!"
📌 Nour's Story
25 October 8.15 p.m.
"We did some projects in class last month. The teacher told us that the posters were fantastic and asked for a volunteer to put them up on the wall. I offered, and I took some drawing pins and stood on my chair. Everything was fine and then I accidentally stuck a drawing pin into my fingertip. I let out a yelp!"
🔬 Samia's Story
25 October 8.44 p.m.
"Yesterday my last class was in the laboratory on the third floor. I started to answer the questions on the worksheet but then I saw a fly on the window. I picked up a textbook and tried to hit the fly. I missed it but I hit the window. Just then the head teacher walked into the room."
📝 2. Past Simple Grammar
ask → asked (regular)
be → was/were (irregular)
break → broke (irregular)
do → did (irregular)
fall → fell (irregular)
forget → forgot (irregular)
get → got (irregular)
give → gave (irregular)
go → went (irregular)
happen → happened (regular)
have → had (irregular)
hit → hit (irregular)
miss → missed (regular)
pay → paid (irregular)
put → put (irregular)
ride → rode (irregular)
see → saw (irregular)
sit → sat (irregular)
stand → stood (irregular)
start → started (regular)
take → took (irregular)
tell → told (irregular)
try → tried (regular)
want → wanted (regular)
All others are irregular
🔊 4-5. Pronunciation Practice
/ɪd/
handed
decided
started
wanted
/t/
pushed
watched
asked
missed
/d/
filled
observed
happened
tried
Ali: Last Monday I 1. did (do) a Physics experiment in Science class and it 2. went (go) really well.
Raed: What 3. did you do (you/do)?
Ali: I 4. filled (fill) a glass with water and I 5. put (put) a card on the glass. Then I quickly 6. turned (turn) the glass upside down.
Raed: 7. Did it work (it/work)?
Ali: Yes. It 8. did (do). The water 9. didn't fall (fall) onto the floor, it 10. stayed (stay) in the glass!
Who sat at the back of the classroom?
Who did some drawings?
What happened after Nour stood on the chair?
Students' own answers
✍️ Workbook Exercises
1. laugh (regular) - others are irregular
2. happen (regular) - others are irregular
3. watch (regular) - others are irregular
4. try (regular) - others are irregular
5. forget (irregular) - others are regular
6. see (irregular) - others are irregular but different patterns
Last year, I 1. moved to England with my family. Now I go to school here and things are a little different to school in my country.
In my old school, I 2. didn't wear a uniform. We all 3. wore our own clothes – jeans, trainers and sweatshirts. I like my new uniform though – I guess that's because it's something new for me. I 4. worked very hard at my old school. I 5. had about four hours of homework every day and I often 6. stayed at home on Saturdays and Sundays to study too. We 7. didn't have modern classrooms. There 8. weren't any laptops or computers. We 9. sat behind desks, 10. listened to the teacher and 11. took notes. In England we do more project work and group work. So, it's easy here and interesting but I think I 12. learnt more in my country.
🔗 Additional English Resources
🌐 External Resources - English Grammar:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/past-simple
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple.html
https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/learning-english/irregular-verbs
