The document is a story told in the past simple tense by a character called Past Simple Boy. It describes his life when he was 18 years old, including [1] studying at university with his friends Paco and Javi, [2] enjoying life and going to parties on weekends rather than studying much, and [3] having a girlfriend named Margarita. It then notes that [3] he finished his studies in 1995 and became a language teacher the following year.

1. Bangkok Christian College
Name :_______________________________________________Class: _____ NO.____
Date :__________________________________________________________________
Past Simple Tense
I lived in Granada when I was Hello everybody! My name is Past Simple Boy because I am very
young
nostalgic and I always talk about the past.This is an old picture of
me. I was eighteen in this picture. It was thirteen years ago.
I didn't study much, but I was
lucky and passed my exams
I studied at University at that time. I lived with my friends Paco
and Javi in a big and old flat. We didn't study much and we
Did your parents study when they
enjoyed our life. Every weekend we went to the disco and met
were young?
new girls. I remember I had a girlfriend called Margarita.
I finished my studies in 1995. A year later I started to work as a
Language teacher in a Secondary school. Life is not too bad, but
those days were fantastic!
Do you know about your parents' life when they were young?
Now that you have read the story, write True or False for each
statement
_____1.He studied at Málaga University.
_____2.Paco and Javi were his flatmates
____ 3.The flat was near the university
_____4.They used to go to the disco every day
_____5.He finished his studies in Granada in 1997
_____6.They used to study a lot
_____7.He is a language teacher in a secondary school
_____8..He married his girlfriend Margarita
Past Simple Form

2. Past Simple Boy
Affirmative Negative Interrogative
I studied I went I didn't study/ go Did I study/go?
You studied You went You didn't study/ go Did you study/ go?
He studied He went He didn't study /go Did he study/ go?
She studied She went She didn't study/ go Did she study/ go?
It studied It went It didn't study/ go Did it study/ go?
We studied We went We didn't study/ go Did we study/ go?
You studied You went You didn't study/ go Did you study/ go?
They studied They went They didn't study/ go Did they study/ go?
Past Simple Use
Past Simple Boy
Uses Examples
Actions that started and finished in the past I didn't go to the beach last
Sunday
Actions that happened one after the other in the past (like I went into the disco and I
in a story) saw my favorite girl, then I
asked her to dance,.........
With the Past Continuous to refer to a short action that The TV broke when she was
interrupts a longer one. watching the football match
Spelling
1. We add -d (not -ed) to the verb that ends with -e: like - liked
2. If it ends with a consonant and -y, we change -y into -i: carry - carried, try - tried.
***But: play - played, because it ends with a vowel and -y.
3. If it has only one syllable and ends with a vowel and a consonant, we double the consonant to
keep the same pronunciation: stop - stopped. The same rule applies to the -l ending: travel -
travelled.
Irregular verbs
All the irregular verbs have different forms. For example: choose - chose, draw - drew, drink
- drank, meet - met, see - saw, think - thought. But the question and negative are made in the
same way: I learnt - Did you learn? No, I did not learn.

3. A : Simple Past: Regular Verbs 1
1. play 6. bathe
a. played a. bathhed
b. plaied b. bathied
c. playyed c. bathed
2. study 7. marry
a. studied a. married
b. studyed b. marryyed
c. studed c. marryed
3. depart 8. fail
a. departied a. failied
b. departted b. failled
c. departed c. failed
4. trap 9. show
a. trapied a. showwed
b. traped b. showed
c. trapped c. showied
5. permit 10.share
a. permitied a. shared
b. permited b. sharied
c. permitted c. sharred
B : Put the verb in brackets in the correct simple past form.
My grandfather had a very exciting life. When he was young, he
_____________ (live) on a farm in the country. His parents _____________
(raise) cattle, and he _____________ (look) after the cows. When he was
eighteen, he went to university, where he _____________ (study) Philosophy.
He also _____________ (play) the trumpet in a jazz band. When the war
started, he _____________ (try) to join the Air Force, but he
_____________ (end) up in the Navy. In the Atlantic, a German torpedo

4. _____________ (rip) a hole in the side of his ship, and the ship sank. Only five
men_____________ (escape). They_____________ (sail) in a lifeboat back to
England. Then he met my grandmother, and they _____________ (marry)
after only three weeks. He says now that he_____________ (want) to marry
her very quickly in case he _____________ (die) in the war.
C : Make the past simple, positive, negative or question
1) I _________didn’t drink___________ (not/drink) any beer last night.
2) She ______________________ (get on) the bus in the centre of the city.
3) What time ______________________ (he/get up) yesterday?
4) Where ______________________ (you/get off) the train?
5) I ______________________ (not/change) trains at Victoria.
6) We ______________________ (wake up) very late.
7) What ______________________ (he/give) his mother for Christmas?
8) I ______________________ (receive) £300 when my uncle died.
9) We ______________________ (not/use) the computer last night.
10) ______________________ (she/make) good coffee?
11) They ______________________ (live) in Paris.
12) She ______________________ (read) the newspaper yesterday.
13) I ______________________ (not/watch) TV.
14) He ______________________ (not/study) for the exam.
15) ______________________ (he/call) you?
16) ______________________ (I/forget) something?
17) What time ______________________ (the film/start)?
18) He ______________________ (have) a shower.
19) Why ______________________ (you/come)?
20) ______________________ (he/go) to the party?

5. B : Use the words in brackets ( ) to complete each of the following questions.
Example: Why (you/move) did you move to England?
(you/speak) _______________________ to Angela last week?
What year (Columbus/discover) _______________________America?
Why (you/not/come) _______________________ to my birthday party?
What year (Elvis/die) _______________________? Was it 1977 or 1978?
How much (you/pay) _______________________ for your CD player?
When (you/play/last) _______________________squash with Jim?
Which hotel (you/stay) ___________________ in when you were in London?
C : There is a mistake in every sentence. Find it and write the
sentence right.
1. I didn't celebrated New Year's Eve yesterday.
______________________________________________
2. My friends organize a fancy dress party last night.
___________________________________________________________
3. but they didn't invited me.
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4. So, I were very sad and lonely.
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5. My best friends didn't were with me.
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6. My cousin visite me in the afternoon.
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7. but then she go to a party.

6. 8. Did you danced on New Year's Eve?
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9. I didn't watched TV because there was a horrible programme.
___________________________________________________________
10.Everybody laughed and sing and was very happy.
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11. But I were not happy, I didn't have a good time.
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D : Rewrite these sentences into the past simple (affirmative, negative and
question).
Example:
- I go shopping to buy some clothes.
- Yesterday, I went shopping to buy some clothes.
- Yesterday, I didn’t go shopping to buy some clothes.
- Did you go shopping to buy some clothes yesterday? No, I didn’t
1.I see some stars in the sky.
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2. This girl is very tall and beautiful.
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7. 3. My friend sends me a letter.
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4. They go to the cinema and they watch a film.
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