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Simple Past Tense Worksheet for Kids

Spoken English lesson 17: Talking about yesterday · Set 116 · 40 questions
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Speaking tips (Grammar point): Most actions add -ed: play → played, watch → watched. Some are special — learn them: go → went, do → did, make → made, take → took, eat → ate. After “did” use the simple word: “Did you watch the film?” (not “watched”).

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  1. 1.Which sentence says “Yesterday, I watched a funny film.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) We took a train to Jaipur. (c) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
  2. 2.Which sentence says “We took a train to Jaipur.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) We took a train to Jaipur. (c) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
  3. 3.Make a sentence: to / grandmother. / wrote / her / letter / Riya / a
  4. 4.We ___ cricket last Sunday. (a) played (b) plays (c) play
  5. 5.Make a sentence: to / a / her / Riya / wrote / grandmother. / letter
  6. 6.Which sentence says “Last week, we went to the beach.”? (a) We lit diyas on Diwali night. (b) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (c) Last week, we went to the beach.
  7. 7.Which sentence says “Grandmother made sweets for everyone.”? (a) Grandmother made sweets for everyone. (b) We took a train to Jaipur. (c) Yesterday, I watched a funny film.
  8. 8.Arjun ___ very happy last week. (a) was (b) is (c) were
  9. 9.We ___ a lot of photos at the zoo. (a) took (b) take (c) taken
  10. 10.Yesterday, I ___ to the market. (a) went (b) goes (c) go
  11. 11.They ___ at home yesterday. (a) was (b) are (c) were
  12. 12.Which sentence says “We lit diyas on Diwali night.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) Grandmother made sweets for everyone. (c) We lit diyas on Diwali night.
  13. 13.✉️ What is this? (a) train (b) sweets (c) beach (d) letter
  14. 14.She ___ a beautiful rangoli on Diwali. (a) makes (b) make (c) made
  15. 15.Make a sentence: Diwali / We / lit / on / night. / diyas
  16. 16.🎆 What is this? (a) letter (b) diya (c) fireworks (d) temple
  17. 17.Did you ___ the film? (a) watch (b) watches (c) watched
  18. 18.Make a sentence: sweets / Grandmother / everyone. / for / made
  19. 19.Make a sentence: Riya / to / a / her / grandmother. / wrote / letter
  20. 20.Which sentence says “Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother. (c) We took a train to Jaipur.
  21. 21.🎬 What is this? (a) diya (b) beach (c) fireworks (d) film
  22. 22.Make a sentence: for / sweets / Grandmother / everyone. / made
  23. 23.📷 What is this? (a) picnic (b) diya (c) sweets (d) camera
  24. 24.🪔 What is this? (a) picnic (b) camera (c) diya (d) temple
  25. 25.Make a sentence: on / night. / Diwali / We / diyas / lit
  26. 26.🛕 What is this? (a) fireworks (b) temple (c) letter (d) beach
  27. 27.🏖️ What is this? (a) fireworks (b) beach (c) diya (d) film
  28. 28.Make a sentence: letter / her / to / grandmother. / Riya / wrote / a
  29. 29.Make a sentence: train / to / We / took / a / Jaipur.
  30. 30.Make a sentence: to / We / Jaipur. / took / a / train
  31. 31.Make a sentence: night. / Diwali / diyas / on / We / lit
  32. 32.Make a sentence: letter / Riya / a / her / to / grandmother. / wrote
  33. 33.I ___ my homework last night. (a) do (b) does (c) did
  34. 34.Make a sentence: We / on / Diwali / lit / night. / diyas
  35. 35.Make a sentence: made / everyone. / Grandmother / sweets / for
  36. 36.Make a sentence: We / lit / night. / diyas / Diwali / on
  37. 37.🍬 What is this? (a) letter (b) picnic (c) temple (d) sweets
  38. 38.Make a sentence: lit / night. / We / Diwali / on / diyas
  39. 39.Make a sentence: night. / lit / diyas / We / on / Diwali
  40. 40.Make a sentence: We / on / diyas / night. / lit / Diwali

Answer key

  1. Yesterday, I watched a funny film.
  2. We took a train to Jaipur.
  3. Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
  4. played
  5. Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
  6. Last week, we went to the beach.
  7. Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
  8. was
  9. took
  10. went
  11. were
  12. We lit diyas on Diwali night.
  13. letter
  14. made
  15. We lit diyas on Diwali night.
  16. fireworks
  17. watch
  18. Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
  19. Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
  20. Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
  21. film
  22. Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
  23. camera
  24. diya
  25. We lit diyas on Diwali night.
  26. temple
  27. beach
  28. Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
  29. We took a train to Jaipur.
  30. We took a train to Jaipur.
  31. We lit diyas on Diwali night.
  32. Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
  33. did
  34. We lit diyas on Diwali night.
  35. Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
  36. We lit diyas on Diwali night.
  37. sweets
  38. We lit diyas on Diwali night.
  39. We lit diyas on Diwali night.
  40. We lit diyas on Diwali night.

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