UNIT 9 Exercises

9.1 Complete these sentences. Use one of these verbs in the past simple:

clean die enjoy finish happen live open play rain smoke start stay want watch

1. Yesterday evening I watched television.
2. I cleaned my teeth three times yesterday.
3. Bernard smoked 20 cigarettes yesterday evening.
4. The concert last night started at 7.30 and finished at 10 o'clock.
5. The accident happened last Sunday afternoon.
6. When I was a child, I wanted to be a doctor.
7. Mozart lived from 1756 to 1791.
8. We enjoyed our holiday last year. We stayed at a very good hotel.
9. Today the weather is nice, but yesterday it rained.
10. It was hot in the room, so I opened the window.
11. The weather was good yesterday afternoon, so we played tennis.
12. William Shakespeare died in 1616.

9.2 Write the past of these verbs.

1. get - got
2. eat - ate
3. pay - paid
4. make - made
5. give - gave
6. leave - left
7. see - saw
8. go - went
9. hear - heard
10. find - found
11. buy - bought
12. know - knew
13. stand - stood
14. take - took
15. do - did
16. put - put
17. tell - told
18. lose - lost
19. think - thought
20. speak - spoke

9.3 Write sentences about the past (yesterday/last week etc.).

1. He always goes to work by car. Yesterday he went to work by car.
2. They always get up early. This morning they got up early.
3. Bill often loses his keys. He lost them yesterday.
4. I write a letter to Jane every week. Last week I wrote a letter to Jane.
5. She meets her friends every evening. She met them yesterday evening.
6. I usually read two newspapers every day. Yesterday I read two newspapers.
7. They come to my house every Friday. Last Friday they came to my house.
8. We usually go to the cinema on Sunday. Last Sunday we went to the cinema.
9. Tom always has a shower in the morning. This morning he had a shower.
10. They buy a new car every year. Last year they bought a new car.
11. I eat an orange every day. Yesterday I ate an orange.
12. We usually do our shopping on Monday. Last Monday we did our shopping.
13. Ann often takes photographs. Last weekend Ann took photographs.
14. We leave home at 8.30 every morning. This morning we left home at 8.30.

9.4 Write sentences about yourself. What did you do yesterday or what happened yesterday?

1. Yesterday I studied English.
2. Yesterday I watched a movie.
3. Yesterday I met my friends.
4. Yesterday I went to the park.
5. Yesterday I read a book.