Sunday, June 12, 2011

Exercises for the Simple Past Tense Verbs

Last Week

Last week, Maria and I took a day off from school and work. We stayed at home and slept late every day. It was our vacatin. We enjoyed every day.We went to three movies and each day we ate lunch in a different restaurant. We went to the beauty shop together and had our hair cut. We also had manicures. On Friday night, we went to the disco with our other friends. We spent Saturday afternoon at the beach. By Sunday, we were tired of vacation. We wanted to go back to school and work.

Exercise 1: Make a list of the words you don't know, look them up in the dictionary, and make a pictionary.

STAYED
ENJOYED
TOGETHER
TIRED
SPENT
HAD

Exercise 2: Count the verbs. There are 15 past tense verbs in the paragraph.


1.- took                                      
2.- stayed                                        
3.- slept                                                                           
4.- was                                                                         
5.- enjoyed                                                            

6.- went  (3)  
7.- had  ( 2)  
8.- wanted
9.- spent
10.- tired 
11.- ate
12.- were      
Exercise 3: Write a short paragraph telling what you did last night. (at least 5 activities, please)




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