Exercise 1: Put the verbs in brackets into the past tenses. 1. We ______________an interesting program on TV last night (watch) 2. Christopher Columbus ______________America more than 500 years ago. (discover) 3. They stayed in a hotel when they _________on holiday in NhaTrang last year ( be) 4. Nam is a careful driver but yesterday he _____________carelessly (drive) 5. She _________born in 1980. (be) 6. She __________to the cinema with him last Sunday. ( not go) 7. He ____________absent from class yesterday. ( be not) 8. I __________her two years ago. ( not see) 9. _________the disaster of Titanic ____________place in 1912.? take) 10. Kate has worked for that company since she ______________from college. (graduate) 11. It’s time / It’s high time we _______________(leave ) 12. It’s about time you ________________your way of living. (change) 13. It’s three years since Kate _________________married. (get) 14. The last time Nancy ______________ here was in 1986. (come) 15. At this time last year, my family _____________in Brazil. (live) 16. My young sister _______________TV at 8 o’clock last night / at that time. (watch) 17. What ________you ______________at this time yesterday? ( do) 18. I _______________my homework by 8 o’clock last night. (finish) 19. We ____________Hue before 1975. ( live) 20. He __________________in New York for ten years by September last year. (live)
1. We __________watched____an interesting program on TV last night (watch) 2. Christopher Columbus ______discovered________America more than 500 years ago. (discover) 3. They stayed in a hotel when they ____were_____on holiday in NhaTrang last year ( be) 4. Nam is a careful driver but yesterday he ____drove_________carelessly (drive) 5. She ___was______born in 1980. (be) 6. She _______didn't go___to the cinema with him last Sunday. ( not go) 7. He ________wasn't____absent from class yesterday. ( be not) 8. I ___didn't see_______her two years ago. ( not see) 9. _______Did__the disaster of Titanic _______take_____place in 1912.? take) 10. Kate has worked for that company since she _______graduated_______from college. (graduate) 11. It’s time / It’s high time we ____________left___(leave ) 12. It’s about time you ______changed__________your way of living. (change) 13. It’s three years since Kate ____________got_____married. (get) 14. The last time Nancy _______came_______ here was in 1986. (come) 15. At this time last year, my family ________was living_____in Brazil. (live) 16. My young sister ________was watching_______TV at 8 o’clock last night / at that time. (watch) 17. What _____were___you ______doing________at this time yesterday? ( do) 18. I ____________had finished___my homework by 8 o’clock last night. (finish) 19. We __________had lived__Hue before 1975. ( live) 20. He _______had lived___________in New York for ten years by September last year. (live)