I. Write the past simple form of the following verbs.
Infinitive Past Infinitive Past Infinitive Past Infinitive Past
1. be ___________ 2. find ___________ 3. use ___________ 4. fall ___________
5. light ___________ 6. escape ___________ 7. make___________ 8. graze ___________
9. fit ___________ 10. lose ___________ 11. go ___________ 12. choose ___________ 
13. appear___________14. come ___________ 15. hold___________ 16. break ___________

II. Write the correct form of verbs. Use the past continuous or the past simple.

1. The woodcutter (work) in the woods. He (hear) a loud scream from a small cottage.

2. Hans Christian Andersen (grow up) in a Danish village and (move)___ to the big city in 1900s.

3. Cinderella (have to) work hard all day since her father died.

4. Cinderella (dress) in rags with a dusty gray face from the cinders whileher stepsisters always (dress) splendid and elegant clothes.

5. I (see) the accident when I (wait) for the taxi.

6. While people (talk) to each other, he (read) his book.

7. Who she (dance) with at the party last night?

8. While we (play) basketball in the park, Mary (fall) over.

9. When Cinderella (run) she (loose) one of her slippers.

10. Someone (knock) the door at midnight yesterday

I. write the past from of the following verbs.

Ex2. Past simple: Irregular verbs: (write the past form of the verb)

1. become became           17. win        33. think

2. come          18. write             34. catch

3. understand         19. break          35. teach

4. stand                  20. speak         36. do

5. take                     21. wear           37. build

6. sing                   22. have            38. send

7. sit                      23. tell                39. lose

8. swim                 24. run                40. feel

9. drink                  25. draw          41. leave

10. give                26. know          42. sleep

11. pay                    27. blow          43. hear

12. say                      28. hold        44. read

13. make            29. fall             45. put

14. wake              30. meet       46. see

15. get            31. buy           47. go

16. ride             32. bring     48. eat

Write the past form of the following verbs.

read-......... write-......... wear-.................

begin-............ make-........... hear-.................

swim-............ ride-............ beat-....................

see-................. speak-......... tell-...............

buy-............... hold-.............. put-...............

II. Complete the sentences using the past simple form of the verbs.

1- I (be).......................................a student 2 years ago.    2- He (be).................................. a doctor two years ago.
3- Lan and Ba (be) ................................nurses last year.
4- My parents (be not) .................................teacchers two years ago.
5- He (be not) ...........................a mechanic last Monday.
6- (Be)................... he an engineer yesterday. No , he (be not).....................
7- (Be) .................It hot last week?            8- (Be).............. you a teacher two years ago? Yes , I (be).................
9- Where (be) ..........................Nam from yesterday?          10. I (go)........................ to Nha Trang two years ago.
11. Ba (play).....................................  football yesterday.      12. I (eat) ..........................a lot of fish yesterday.
13. Her aunt (take)............................................ her to see Cham Temple last year.
14. She (not buy)......................................... a new ruler yesterday?
15. He (not talk)......................................... with his parents about his vacation in Da Lat last year.
16. We (not return) .............................................at home at 7 pm last Monday.
17. She (not eat ) .............................................fish and crab yesterday.
18. What ..................they (play) ...............................last week?
19. Who (talk) ....................................to about the film on TV last Monday?
20. What ..............the students (wear)...................................... at school two years ago?

Complete the text with the past simple, past continuous or past perfect form of the verbs below.

Japan is the country with the most centenarians: over 50,000. It is also where Jiroemon Kimura, the man with the longest lifespan ever, ¹____________born in 1897. Kimura ²____________school at fourteen and ³____________ a job in a post office. While he ⁴ ____________there, he ⁵____________his future wife Yae. He 6____________a postal worker for 45 years when he ⁷____________in 1962. But he ⁸____________working! He ⁹____________a farmer! In an interview just before he ¹⁰____________at the age of 116, he said he wasn’t sure why he ¹¹____________so long. ‘Maybe it's thanks to the sun,’ he ¹²____________. ‘I'm always looking up to the sky.’