Past simple or used to gap fill exercise esl lounge. When we use the negative, we dont change the main verb. More past tenses including the past continuous and used to. English grammar exercises online with answers pdf on this page you will find various free grammar worksheets of increasing difficulty that can be completed directly online, or at home theyll help you to put into practice all the key notions of the english grammar previously shown in the grammar lessons part of the website, and if you are a beginner you can use them to familiarize. Used to and past tense exercise for englsih language learners. It is better not to use used to in questions or negative forms. To be past worksheets pdf, handouts, printable exercises. Elicit what the difference is between using the past simple and used to. English language pdfs heres a list of all the pdfs on the site, for easy downloading. Unit 1 english 3 used to is used to talk about past situations or habits that continued for months or years and to emphasize that the situation today is different. If necessary do the first one with them as an example. Past simple positive and negative with be past simple questions with be. In the past frank a computer, but at present he a computer designer. For irregular verbs, there is a special past tense form.
Students look at the timelines and write sentences describing the past activities, occupations, emotions, and habits of the lives of the people pictured. As the passage describes completed events, it uses simple past tense appropriately in context. Use either used to or the past simple to complete each of the sentences. Past simple past continuous, used to was writing delivered used to wear was writing rode a complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. Intermediate grammar past simple or used to gap fill exercise. The last exercise is intended to get the students speaking. Simple past english tenses and english grammar worksheets, grammar rules, grammar exercises.
B complete the sentences with the past continuous form of. Used to has the same form in all persons, singular and plural and it is followed by infinitive. Its a onepage handout about the activities happened on a summer holiday in nice in france. We would always go to the seaside for our holidays. This is a fun grammar exercise for english language learners. Before using this efl reading material in your lesson, you may want to teach brica. We can always use the past simple as an alternative to used to or would to talk about past states or habits.
Fill in the blanks with an appropriate verb phrase. It asks them to make two personal sentences about something they used to do but dont anymore and about something they did not used to do but now do. Past simple we use the past simple to talk about past events in chronological order. The exercises consist of ordering sentences with used to into making sense and then changing them into the negative and interrogative. A reading text to accompany your grammar lesson on simple past tense. Present perfect simple or present perfect continuous exercise 3. Past habits we use used to for past habits or things that happened repeatedly in the past, but they dont happen any more i used to play chess every day, but now i dont play very often when the economy was better, we used to eat out every week past states we use used to with nonaction verbs be, have, etc. You were you werent he was he wasnt she was she wasnt it was it wasnt we were we werent they were they werent yes, no, was. Used to is used to express something that you did frequently in the past. I played on the swings and the slide but i didnt go on the roundabout. Elicit what tense we use to talk about present habits. Past simple used when talking about something that happened in the past at a specific time.
Match the two halves of these sentences which show how the past simple and the past continuous tenses are used. This is a very simple worksheet i created some time ago for my students who are taking trinity exams. The red team players warm up when the opponent team arrived at the stadium 6. The main difference is that the past simple doesnt emphasise the repeated or continuous nature of the action or situation. Irregular level intermediate answer key my notes 1. Click on the image below or the link of the page to download the pdf file. College professors are used to difficult mathematics, so physics is easy for them. Exercise 3 on the board write two sentences about yourself, e.
In the past frank only meat, but at present he meat, fish and chiken in the past frank postcards to friends, but at present he never in the past frank pop music, but at present he the guitar in rock band. Exercise 2 used to solutions oxford university press. Used to for past habits edutaining english learners edutainesl. Joe and anu work in the office when the boss walked in. I told him but he didnt hear me as he watch the news 4. The grammatical form used for an action that had already finished when another action happened.
Complete the sentences with the present simple or present. Use 1 habit in the past used to expresses the idea that something was an old habit that stopped in the past. Change the verbs below into the past tense and put them into the correct place in the sentences. Look at these examples to see how used to, would and the past simple are used. While she was studying, talin cook her favorite dish 7. We use did here because the statement is in the past tense. We can use the past simple to talk about things we did in. Past continuous past simple phonetics phrasal verbs plurals possessives prepositions pronouns present continuous present perfect present simple punctuation quantity questions relative clauses reported speech someany subject and verb subjunctives subordination tag questions to be time adverbs used to verb tenses word order. Find the verbs in the past simple and write them in the boxes. Alibi jigsaw reading choose the best past simple and past continuous questions to complete this police interview of a suspect. Both would and used to can be used to talk about repeated actions in the past. Explanations and examples along with tests and exercises online to practise past simple tense in english. Also, the past simple doesnt make it so clear that the thing is no longer true. The past simple refers to something you did once at a specific time in the past.
Click here to jump to the pdfs of grammar explanations exercises. Max isnt used to college mathematics, so he doesnt understand his homework. We can use past simple questions to ask about the past. I used to walk to school every day when i was a child past states we also say used to to express a state that existed. Home page grammar exercises intermediate past simple or used to gap fill exercise. We use the past simple tense of be to talk about people and. It is better to ask questions and create negative sentences using simple past. It is used only in the past simple tense past habits if you used to do something, you did it for a period of time in the past, but you dont do it any more we used to live there when i was a child. In the past frank to the cinema, but at present he to the cinema at weekends. When she opened the door, she pretended that we werent there and she went to her room he called me and asked me to pick him up, but when i arrived he wasnt there we also use the past simple to talk about past habits or past states we often went to the bar for a. B use the text to help you write questions for the answers.
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