Past Simple Next Move 1, Unit 7

1. Complete the dialogue with the correct Past simple form of to be:

Tony:             Where ^1 _______ (you) last night?

Steve:            I ² _____ at home.

Tony             No, you ³ _____ .

Steve            How do you know?

Tony             I ⁴ ______ at your house with your brother, and you ⁵ ______ there!

2. Complete the dialogue with the correct Past simple form of to be.

Steve:   Guess, where ¹ ______ I this afternoon? I ²  _____at the cinema with Rebecca.

Tony:    ³  ____ (Julie) with you?

Steve:  No, she ⁴ _____ . Only Rebecca and I ⁵  ______ at the cinema.

3. Complete the sentences with the correct form of there was or there were.

1) We all use mobile phones today, but 40 years ago _____ any mobile phones.

2) ______ a big TV in your parents’ old house?

3) _______many young people at the sports club last night?

4. Complete the sentences with the correct form of there was or there were.

1)  ______ a bad accident in the city centre yesterday. It was terrible!

2)  ______some great DVDs and computer games in that shop.

3) ______any cheese in the fridge.

5. Complete the text with the Past simple form of the verbs in the box.

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There ¹ ____ a sound outside. I ² ____ the door and ³ ____ around, but I didn’t see anything. Then the noise ⁴  _____. I ⁵ _____ the door and ⁶ _____ TV. But then something ⁷ ______in my bedroom.  I ⁸  ______the police, but they ⁹ ______ .

6. Choose the dates and the years in words.

1)  1978                                                 

2)   2^nd December                                   

3)   2007

7. Choose the dates and the years in words.

1)      25^th April                                          

2)      2012                                                 

3)     3^rd June 

12. Complete the sentences. Use a verb in the Past simple form in each gap. The first letter of each verb is given.

1)      Marconi i_____ the radio in 1896.

2)      The car s_____ because the light was red.

3)      He a______   me a question and I a_____ him.

13. Complete the sentences. Use a verb in the Past simple form in each gap. The first letter of each verb is given.

1)     The programme on TV last night was great. She l_____  it very much.

2)     I c______  the window because it was cold.

3)    They t______  to France by train

14. Complete the sentences. Use one word in each gap. 

 They arrived in England 50 years_____ .

15. Complete the sentences. Use one word in each gap. 

They lived in Brighton_____ two years.

16. Complete the sentences. Use one word in each gap.

I played football_______ weekend.

17. Complete the sentences. Use one word in each gap.

Grandma was a teenager_____ the 1960s.

18. Complete the sentences. Use one word in each gap.

‘Today lots of people use the internet, but______ days we didn’t have the internet.’ ‘Really? What a _______ !’

19. Complete the sentences. Use one word in each gap.

I answered the phone a minute _________ .

20. Complete the sentences. Use one word in each gap.

I waited ________ an hour but you didn’t come.

21. Complete the sentences. Use one word in each gap.

Where were you _______ morning?

22. Complete the sentences. Use one word in each gap.

The first space vehicle visited Mars ____2004

23. Match the verbs to the correct Past simple spelling rule. 

 dance / love 

24. Match the verbs to the correct Past simple spelling rule. 

 tidy / hurry