Question 1
1 markLast night, Tim _______ (not/watch) the movie because he _______ (be) very tired after the football match.
Primary School · General English
Past Simple Tense: Practice Questions
5 multiple-choice questions marked as you go, and 3 written questions with worked solutions. All on Past Simple Tense.
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Question 2
1 markWhen the little boy _______ (lose) his balloon, he _______ (begin) to cry loudly until his mother _______ (buy) him a new one.
Question 3
1 markAfter the teacher ______ the instructions, she ______ the students some worksheets and then ______ them to start.
Question 4
1 markLast Friday, we _______ a new song together in our music class.
Question 5
1 markThe teacher _______ (let) the children decorate their own ice-cream cones during the workshop last Friday.
Question 6
2 marksYesterday, my father _______ (wash) the car in the garden.
Fill in the blank with the correct Past Simple form of the verb in brackets.
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Question 7
3 marksRewrite the following sentence in the Past Simple tense as a question:
'The students find a gold key in the playground.'
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Question 8
5 marksRewrite the following sentence using the Past Simple Tense for all the action verbs:
"The brave explorers do not catch any fish, so they buy some bread and eat it by the campfire."
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