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EFL and ESL FREE PRINTABLE ENGLISH GRAMMAR WORKSHEET KIDS

SIMPLE PAST REGULAR PAST AFFIRMATIVE
1 Robert the explorer

Robert was a popular American explorer.

He was brave and he was curious.
A long, long time ago he traveled to far-off lands,
and arrived in a place
where people talked in the past.

They said, We talked and walked and cooked.

We studied and tried to be good.
We never stopped or dropped the ball.
We planted seeds in daylight
and enjoyed the moon at night.

Robert was very surprised

How can these people talk only in the past?
He soon discovered the rules
and stayed there for a long time.
He lived a happy life, he married and worked hard,
always talking in the past.

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2 Complete Roberts discovery. Look at the verbs in Robert the Explorer.

People in Regular Past Land talk in the past.
They add _____ to words like TALK, WORK and WALK.
Listen! They sound very strong: TALKED, ________ and _________.
But some sounds are really sweet like ENJOYED an planted.
Some letters change...
STUDY, TRY and MARRY change to

______, __________, and ________.

And some letters double!

DROP_______ and STOP_______.
And some only take d like the verb _ _ _ _ D.

3 Put the verbs in box 4 in the past. Then, write the verbs in the correct tree.
1

2
dropped

entered

called

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carried

clean _____ cry ______ watch _____

live _____ chat ____ try _____
want ____ plan ______ ask____

4 Complete the sentences about your life YESTERDAY with the verbs on the right.
1 I finished my homework yesterday.

FINISH

2 My mom __________________________.

COOK

3 I _________________________________.

WATCH

4 We ____________ classes at __________.

START

5 My friends ____________ on the computer.

CHAT

6 My day _______________ at _____ oclock.

END

5 LOOK.
Today is Monday.

YESTERDAY was Sunday.

This month is December

LAST month was November.

week, year, summer, class, etc

Now

three hours AGO.

6 Solve this. Use yesterday, last or ago.

1 Now its 5 p.m. My sister arrived at 1 pm.
She arrived four hours ago.
2 My birthday was in March. Its August now.

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My birthday was ______________________.

3 Today is Friday. She arrived on Thursday.
She arrived ______________.
4 This Friday is my birthday. My cousin is 7 days older than me.
My cousins birthday was _______________.
5 2010 is this year. 2009 was _____________.
6 Today is Friday. My music class is on Thursday.
My music class was ___________________.

Scroll down for the answer key.

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ANSWER KEY EFL and ESL Grammar worksheet SIMPLE PAST Regular past affirmative

2
They add ed to words like TALK, WORK and WALK.
Listen! They sound very strong: TALKED, walked and cooked.
But some sounds are really sweet like ENJOYED and planted
Some letters change...
STUDY, TRY and MARRY change to

studied, tried, and married.

And some letters double!

DROPped and STOPped.
And some only take d like the verb liveD.

3
1 cleaned, asked, watched, lived
2 chatted, planned
3 cried, tried

4 can vary per student

2 cooked spaghetti last night.
3 watched football on TV yesterday.
4 started .... at eight o'clock this morning.
5 chatted about our friends
6 ended at nine

6
2 five months ago.

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3 yesterday.
4 last week
5 last year
6 yesterday

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