Simple Past Exercises

Exercise 1 Complete the following sentences.
  

1) I  (work) in a bank for ten years.
Answer: worked


2) Where    (you/live) when you were young?
Answer: did you live


3) She    (not/study) French at university.
Answer: didn't study


4) He    (travel) through the middle east last year.
Answer: travelled


5) (they/visit)    the Louvre in Paris?
Answer: did they visit


6) She    (not/watch) TV yesterday.
Answer: didn't watch


7) We    (buy) a new car last weekend.
Answer: bought


8) Where    (you/teach) before you came here?
Answer: did you teach



9) He    (not/think) that he was right.
Answer: didn't think


10) I    (cook) steak last night.
Answer: cooked



Exercise 2 Write a short paragraph about what you did during the Thanksgiving holiday. Make sure you use correct past tense verb forms.





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