Unit 11: worked / got / went etc.

Past Simple – Full Textbook Version

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GRAMMAR

EXAMPLES

EXERCISES

A. watched → watched

They watch television every evening. (present simple)

They watched television yesterday evening. (past simple)

watched is the past simple:

he/she/it	watched
I/we/you/they	watched

B. -ed (regular verbs)

work → worked

stay → stayed

clean → cleaned

start → started

arrive → arrived

dance → danced

I clean my teeth every morning. This morning I cleaned my teeth.

Terry worked in a bank from 1986 to 1993.

Yesterday it rained all morning. It stopped at lunchtime.

We enjoyed the party last night. We danced a lot and talked to a lot of people.

The party finished at midnight.

Spelling (→ Appendix 5):
try → tried study → studied copy → copied
stop → stopped plan → planned

C. Irregular verbs (not -ed)

Some verbs are irregular (= not regular). The past simple is not -ed. Here are some important irregular verbs (see also Appendix 2–3):

begin	→	began	fall	→	fell	leave	→	left	sell	→	sold
break	→	broke	find	→	found	lose	→	lost	sit	→	sat
bring	→	brought	fly	→	flew	make	→	made	sleep	→	slept
build	→	built	forget	→	forgot	meet	→	met	speak	→	spoke
buy	→	bought	get	→	got	pay	→	paid	stand	→	stood
catch	→	caught	give	→	gave	put	→	put	take	→	took
come	→	came	go	→	went	read	→	read /red/	tell	→	told
do	→	did	have	→	had	ring	→	rang	think	→	thought
drink	→	drank	hear	→	heard	say	→	said	win	→	won
eat	→	ate	know	→	knew	see	→	saw	write	→	wrote

I usually get up early but this morning I got up at 9.30.

We did a lot of work yesterday.

Caroline went to the cinema three times last week.

Jim came into the room, took off his coat and sat down.

Examples

They watched television.

I cleaned my teeth this morning.

We danced a lot at the party.

Jim came into the room and sat down.

Exercises 11.1 – 11.5

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11.1 Complete the sentences. Use one of these verbs in the past simple:

clean die enjoy finish happen open rain start stay want

I cleaned my teeth three times yesterday.
It was hot in the room, so I opened the window. →
The concert started at 7.30 and finished at 10 o’clock. →
When I was a child, I wanted to be a doctor. →
The accident happened last Sunday afternoon. →
It’s a nice day today but yesterday it rained all day. →
We enjoyed our holiday last year. We stayed at a very nice place. →
Ann’s grandfather died when he was 90 years old. →

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11.2 Write the past simple of these verbs.

get → got
see →
play →
pay →
visit →
buy →
go →
think →
copy →
know →
put →
speak →

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11.3 Read about Lisa’s journey to Madrid. Put the verbs in the correct form.

Last Tuesday Lisa (1) flew from London to Madrid. She (2) got up at 6.30, (3) had a cup of coffee. At 6.30 she (4) left home and (5) drove to the airport. When she (6) arrived, she (7) parked the car and then (8) went to the airport café where she (9) had breakfast. Then she (10) went through passport control and (11) waited for her flight. The plane (12) departed on time and (13) arrived in Madrid two hours later. Finally she (14) took a taxi from the airport to her hotel in the centre of Madrid.

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11.4 Write sentences about the past (yesterday / last week etc.)

Jim always goes to work by car. Yesterday he went to work by car.
Rachel often loses her keys. She lost her keys yesterday evening. →
Kate meets her friends every evening. She met her friends yesterday evening. →
I usually buy two newspapers every day. Yesterday I bought two newspapers. →
We usually go to the cinema on Sundays. Last Sunday we went to the cinema. →
I eat an orange every day. Yesterday I ate an orange. →
Tom always has a shower in the morning. This morning he had a shower. →
Our friends come to see us every Friday. They came to see us last Friday. →

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11.5 Write sentences about what you did yesterday.

I played volleyball yesterday.
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