4. Use the Past Simple or Present Perfect. 1) you (read) Harry Potter when you on holidays? 2) What…

II. Make the Past Simple questions. 1.Gulnaz went to Turkey last year. When 2. Kate broke the vase yesterday. What 3. She studied French at school. Where 4. She kept her money at home. Did 5. He bought five books. How many 6. It rained a week ago. Did 7. Janar found this cat in the park last summer. ?​

Write sentences, using Past Perfect Tense or Past Simple Tense 1. The teacher. (check) the tests that we . (do). 2. They . (clean) the room after their aunt (tell) them about this. 3. I . (give) them some of the candies I (buy). 4. My sister (live) in Turkey before she . (move) to Belgium. 5. We . (be) tired because we . (work) all day. .​

3.Use the Past Simple or the Present Perfect:

1) I ………. (read) this book two years ago.

2) What time …………. you (go) to the cinema

yesterday?

3) She ………… (finish / not) her project yet.

4) Ann ………. (buy, just) a nice dress.

5) My sister ……………. (go, just) on holiday to Kyiv.

Choose the present perfect or past simple:

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11. Lucy. snd say hello! break) her leg so she can’t come skiing. 12. Julie

(arrive)! Come

13. They (be) cold when they (arrive) home.

14. Jack (break) his arm when he (fall) off a horse in 2005.

15.1 solution yet. (know) about the problem for months, but I (not/fir ) a

16. A: When (you/arrive)?B: At 10pm last night.

17. She (be) a teacher for ten years, and she still enjoys it.

18. How long. ( you/ know) Jill? I know you see her often.

19.I (see) the sea before.

20. A: Hello B: Hi Mum, it’s me. I just wanted to say I is fine. (arrive) safely and everything

Use the appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets to complete the sentences.
1) The book (write) in the previous century. 2) Not long ago this story
(tell) by a famous traveller. 3) We (just buy) her a pair of skates as a
birthday present. 4) The child (look) for his toy everywhere but couldn’t
find it. 5) The music (play) by a big orchestra tomorrow. 6) The other
day the team (win) the game quite easily. 7) Last week the dog (find)
on the road not far from the village. Such cakes (make) and (deco-
rate) for Easter. 9) They (clean) the room very carefully two or three
times a week. 10) What vegetables (grow) by
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Choose the correct tense (Simple Past or Past Perfect). 1. They (show) their holidays. 2. In the evening, the children (tell) me the pictures, they (take) during their daddy what they (see) at the zoo. 3. The boy (be) 4. My friend (eat) 5. The teacher (correct) 6. I (give). 7. My sister (see / not) the kitchen table for her. 8. We (want) very sorry for what he (do). up all the biscuit we (bake) the tests we (write) them some of the candies I (buy) the note that I (leave) uo to watch a film that we (see / not) before. his homework. out to play, he (do) 9. When Simon (go) 10. Before that day in winter, the African boy (not/see) snow in his life. 11. She (give) 12. We (go) us for tea. me the book that she (read) to London because the Queen (invite)​

past perfect and past simple
2 Complete the sentences. Use the past
perfect and the past simple in each
sentence.
I’d seen (see) the film before, but I watched (watch) it
again yesterday.
1 Alice — (tell) me that she — (not have) many
hobbies when she was a child.
2 When her neighbours — (get) a TV, she —
(go) round to watch it. She (not seen) one
before.
3 They (not invent) computers when Alice
(be) young
4 By the time he (be) eighteen, he leave)
school and (find) a job.
5 The band — (not start) playing when we —
(arrive).
6 In the 1950s, people (want) to enjoy
themselves because they — (have) a hard time
during the war.​

Complete the sentences with the correct past simple or past perfect form of the verbs given. Use used to in two of the sentences.
1 Yesterday we ____ (have) an exam at school. It was really difficult!
2 I didn’t go to the cinema with Cathy because l ____ (see) the film before.
3 I ____ (play) rugby when I was at school but I don’t anymore.
4 We got to the station at three o’clock and _____ (catch) the next train to Oxford.
5 Katie ____ (have) long hair but this summer she cut it really short.​

1. Andy is tired because he 2. By 1960 most of the Britain’s old colonies (WORK) 7 days a week. (BECOME) independent. 3. David broke his leg when he (SKI) last week. 4. 5. you (HAVE) a nice time in Rome during your last holiday? (FINISH) your homework yet? you 6. He 7. For how long (WORK) at his computer for the last 6 hours. she (HAVE) her car? 8. How many people 9.1 (NOT/KNOW) much about art, but I like some artists. 10. I 11. I 12. Tom and Sam 13.1 14. She (DIE) in the fire yesterday? (WAIT) for ages. At last, the bus arrived. (RECEIVE) a postcard from Jane yesterday. (play) soccer next Sunday. (NEVER/BE) sailing, what is it like ? (RIDE) her bike in the park at the moment. 15. It (RAIN) when I got up. 16. Janet (HAVE) a great time in N.Y. at the moment. 17. Nelly 18. She was cooking dinner when we 19. She 20. My friends (ARRIVE). (COME BACK) from the cruise in a week. (BE) free for most of the evening. 21. The children were tired because they (START) a new job last September. (SWIM) all afternoon. 22. We (USUALLY/SPEND) Xmas with grandma. 23. He (NOT/LIKE) carrots. 24. you (VISIT) Alice yesterday? 25. Luis (COME) to the party tonight? 26. your mom (USUALLY/PICK) you up at school?​

Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple or the Past Continuous.
1. My mum _____ (prepare) lunch while my brother and I ____ (do) the homework.
2. My grandma ______ (break) her leg last week.
3. We ______ (go) to the cinema last weekend.
4. I _______ (not watch) the match on TV at 9 o’clock.
5. What ____ you ____ (read) this time last Friday?​