Solved exercises
Although you have seen some solved exercises throughout the contents of topic 2, here you have some more solved exercises for your knowledge and for your practice. Enjoy them!
Solved exercise 1: Simple Past Tense
1) Paco / the question / answer
2) you / play / football / yesterday
3) the dog / bark / a lot4) they / us / call / to go out for a drink
5) we / a mountain / climb
Solved exercise 2: ago with Simple Past
1) Paco travelled to London two months ago.
2) Ago a couple of hours I played football with my friends.
3) I studied German six years ago.
4) Sonia helped his brother with English ago some months.
5) Paco's parents spoke with him on the phone one hour ago.
Important
REMEMBER THAT:
1) Ago is placed before the time expression
2) Ago goes at the end of the sentence
Solved exercise 3: used to
1) Paco used to have white coffee for breakfast in Spain.
2) I use soap to wash the car.
3) Andrés, Alex and Paco used to play football at weekends.
4) I used to read love poems when I was a teenager.
Solved exercise 4: regular verbs in Simple Past (affirmative)
1) My parents acquired this house six months ago.
a) action that started and finished in the past
b) actions that happened one after the other in the past
c) a short action in the past that interrupts a longer one
2) The firemen suffered an accident while they were practicing emergency procedures.
a) action that started and finished in the past
b) actions that happened one after the other in the past
c) a short action in the past that interrupts a longer one
3) The door opened and a dog entered the room.
a) action that started and finished in the past
b) actions that happened one after the other in the past
c) a short action in the past that interrupts a longer one
Decide which action is the most suitable one for each sentence.
Correct answers are in bold type letter.
Solved exercise 5: regular verbs in Simple Past (negative)
1) Paco ordered a soft drink at a restaurant.
2) I washed my car last night.
3) My friends played football in the park.
4) Alex's father worked as an engineer in the past.
5) Sonia helped his brother with English before the journey.
Solved exercise 6: irregular verbs in Simple Past (affirmative)
1) Last year I (spend) __________ my holiday in Ireland.
2) It (be) __________ great to have fun with you.
3) In the evenings we usually (go) __________ to a pub.
4) One night we even (learn) __________ some Irish dances.
5) But we (see) __________ some beautiful rainbows.
Solved exercise 7: irregular verbs with Simple Past (negative)
1) Last year I spent my holiday in Ireland.
2) It was great to have fun with you.
3) In the evenings we usually went to a pub.
4) One night we even learnt some Irish dances.
5) But we saw some beautiful rainbows.
Rewrite the sentences from the exercise above into negative ones.
Solved exercise 8: pronunciation of past endings
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