Use & Meaning
Which expression most clearly indicates a completed past action: last night, since 2022, or every day?
Last night
Write the past forms of arrive, study, and stop.
Arrived, studied, stopped
Give the past forms of bring, catch, and teach.
Brought, caught, taught
Make this sentence negative: The students understood the instructions.
The students didn’t understand the instructions.
Correct the mistake: She didn’t wrote the email.
She didn’t write the email.
Why is the simple past used here? She worked at the hospital from 2018 to 2022.
Because the action happened during a finished period.
Find and correct the spelling mistake: planned, tryed, hoped.
Tryed → tried
Complete: The manager ___ (deal) with the problem and ___ (lead) the meeting.
Dealt; led
Turn this into a question: They chose the blue design.
Did they choose the blue design?
Correct the question: Where you went after class?
Where did you go after class?
Identify the use of the simple past: He entered the room, sat down, and opened his notebook.
A sequence of completed past actions.
Explain the spelling rules in admitted and panicked.
Admit doubles the final consonant; panic adds k before -ed.
Complete: The wind ___ (blow) strongly, a branch ___ (fall), and Daniel ___ (catch) it.
Blew, fell, caught
Ask about the reason: They canceled the match because it rained heavily.
Why did they cancel the match?
Correct two mistakes: The students was tired because they didn’t slept well.
The students were tired because they didn’t sleep well.
Which sentence can be rewritten with used to? Explain. A) We visited our grandmother every Sunday. B) We visited her once last Sunday.
Sentence A, because it describes a repeated past habit.
Sort the verbs by their -ed pronunciation: laughed, robbed, wanted, washed, called, needed.
/t/: laughed, washed; /d/: robbed, called; /ɪd/: wanted, needed
Give the base forms of sought, chose, shook, and hid.
Seek, choose, shake, hide
Ask two questions about: Lucy invited Mark. First, ask about Lucy. Then ask about Mark.
Who invited Mark? Who did Lucy invite?
Correct the exchange: Did Marta used to played volleyball? Yes, she use.
Did Marta use to play volleyball? Yes, she did.
Explain the difference: I didn’t use to like science. / I didn’t like the science lesson yesterday.
The first describes a former general state; the second refers to one specific past occasion.
Correct all four verbs: stoped, studyed, paniced, prefered.
Stopped, studied, panicked, preferred
Complete: The match ___ (begin) late. Our goalkeeper ___ (catch) every ball, but one player ___ (fall), ___ (hurt) his ankle, and ___ (leave) the field.
Began, caught, fell, hurt, left
Rewrite as an indirect question: Where did Elena leave the keys? Begin with: Do you know…?
Do you know where Elena left the keys?
Correct six mistakes: Last Saturday, Nina wake up late and didn’t ate breakfast. She leaved home in a hurry, but she forgetted her keys. Did she returned home? Yes, and then she taked a taxi.
Woke up, didn’t eat, left, forgot, Did she return…?, took