Simple Past Tense

Exercise 1: Choose the word /phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in each sentence ( 5 points)

1. I ____________ late this morning because my alarm didn’t go off.

• get up      

• got up

• getting up

• gets up

2. It __________ heavily the day before yesterday.

• rain

• rains  

• raining

• rained

3. My computer ___________ broken last week.

• was

• were

• had been

• has been

4. He _____________ me a big teddy bear on my birthday last week.

• buyed

• buys

• bought

• buying

5. ________________ in this mansion 5 years ago?

• Did you live

• You lived     

• Have you lived

• Did you lived

Exercise 2: Rewrite the correct sentence which has THE SAME MEANING.

6. We have written to each other for three years.

---> We started ________________________

7. It took him two hours to do his homework.

---> He spent ________________________

8. He hasn’t had his eyes tested for a year.

---> He last ______________________

9. The oral examination lasted three hours.

---> It took ______________________

10. I used to live in Happy Valley.

---> I once _______________