Listening exercises past simple regular verbs

1. Complete the sentences with the past simple affirmative form of the regular verbs below.

decide die drop look marry move stop study talk want

1 My dad maths at university.

2 We live in Oxford. We here five years ago.

3 Jason at me and smiled.

4 The train at the station and we got off.

5 Jenny on the phone with her friend for over two hours!

6 In the end, we to go on holiday to Italy, not to France.

7 The goalkeeper had the ball, but then he it.

8 My mum my dad in 1988.

9 I to go to the shopping mall, but my mum said to.

10 Sadly, my grandma last year. She was 98.

1 studied 2 moved 3 looked 4 stopped 5 talked

6 decided 7 dropped 8 married 9 wanted

10 died

2. Complete the sentences. Use the past simple affirmative form of the irregular verbs in brackets.

1 Emma tried on a green dress and a blue dress in the clothes shop, and [choose] the blue one.

2 I [find] £20 in the street last Saturday.

3 We [go] bowling yesterday evening.

4 Somebody [steal] my smartphone from my schoolbag.

5 The film [begin] at seven and finished at ten.

6 It [take] six hours to drive from London to Edinburgh.

7 Hannah [feel] relieved when she got her exam results.

8 Tom and Matt [be] upset that George didnt invite them to his party.

9 We [get] home at eight oclock on Sunday.

10 Millie [spend] all her money on computer games.

1 chose 2 found 3 went 4 stole 5 began

6 took 7 felt 8 were 9 got 10 spent

3. Complete the texts with the past simple affirmative of the verbs in brackets.

Callie Rogers 1.. [be] just sixteen when she 2.. [win] the lottery in 2003. She 3.. [give] up her job as a shop assistant and 4.. [start] to spend her money. She 5.. [take] her family on expensive holidays, 6.. [invite] all her friends to big parties every weekend and 7.. [have] cosmetic surgery. Ten years later, she 8.. [have] just £2,000 left. But shes happy now. I 9.. [be] too young to win the lottery, she 10.. [say].

Tom Crist 11.. [get] a big surprise when he 12.. [answer] his phone on 16 December 2013. He 13.. [be] a lottery winner, and the prize 14.. [be] enormous $40 million! He 15.. [decide] not to tell anyone about the win. He immediately 16.. [give] all the money to charities. I dont really need that money, he 17.. [say]. My wife 18.. [die] earlier in the year so I 19.. [choose] cancer charities that 20.. [help] her.

1 was 2 won 3 gave 4 started 5 took

6 invited 7 had 8 had 9 was 10 said 11 got

12 answered 13 was 14 was 15 decided 16 gave

17 said 18 died 19 chose 20 helped

4. Correct the verbs in sentences 1-5.

1 We was at home last night. .

2 I droped my phone on the floor. .

3 I gived my brother a book for his birthday. .

4 My sister studyed maths at university. .

5 I spended all my pocket money on sweets. .

1 were 2 dropped 3 gave 4 studied 5 spent

5. Write five true sentences about what you did last weekend. Use past simple forms of the verbs below to help you, or your own ideas.

be get go have phone play study

take talk visit watch

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your own answers

6. Complete the dialogues with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets.

Jane Tim 1 [tell] me about your holiday. Is it true you 2 [go] to Spain?

Chris Yes! We 3 [have] a fantastic time. We 4 [visit] some amazing museums, and we 5 [have] some truly amazing food!

Mike I 6 [buy] a new tablet yesterday. Someone 7 [steal] my old one out of my bad.

Laura Thats a shame! You 8 [report] the theft to the police, didnt you?

Mike No. I 9 [want] a new tablet anyway, and I actually 10 [spend] less on the new one than the old one.

1 told 2 went 3 had 4 visited 5 had 6 bought

7 stole 8 reported 9 wanted 10 spent