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Simple Past Tense Worksheet for Kids

Spoken English lesson 17: Talking about yesterday · Set 189 · 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.We ___ cricket last Sunday. (a) plays (b) played (c) play
  2. 2.Which sentence says “We took a train to Jaipur.”? (a) We took a train to Jaipur. (b) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother. (c) Yesterday, I watched a funny film.
  3. 3.Make a sentence: everyone. / sweets / Grandmother / made / for
  4. 4.Arjun ___ very happy last week. (a) were (b) was (c) is
  5. 5.I ___ my homework last night. (a) did (b) does (c) do
  6. 6.She ___ a beautiful rangoli on Diwali. (a) makes (b) made (c) make
  7. 7.Did you ___ the film? (a) watched (b) watches (c) watch
  8. 8.Make a sentence: train / took / Jaipur. / We / to / a
  9. 9.We ___ a lot of photos at the zoo. (a) take (b) taken (c) took
  10. 10.They ___ at home yesterday. (a) are (b) was (c) were
  11. 11.Make a sentence: Grandmother / everyone. / made / sweets / for
  12. 12.🎆 What is this? (a) beach (b) fireworks (c) diya (d) temple
  13. 13.Which sentence says “We lit diyas on Diwali night.”? (a) We lit diyas on Diwali night. (b) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (c) Last week, we went to the beach.
  14. 14.Make a sentence: diyas / lit / on / Diwali / night. / We
  15. 15.Make a sentence: to / We / took / a / train / Jaipur.
  16. 16.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 lit diyas on Diwali night.
  17. 17.✉️ What is this? (a) diya (b) film (c) sweets (d) letter
  18. 18.Which sentence says “Yesterday, I watched a funny film.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) We lit diyas on Diwali night. (c) We took a train to Jaipur.
  19. 19.Make a sentence: lit / night. / diyas / on / We / Diwali
  20. 20.Make a sentence: Grandmother / sweets / for / made / everyone.
  21. 21.Which sentence says “Grandmother made sweets for everyone.”? (a) We took a train to Jaipur. (b) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (c) Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
  22. 22.Make a sentence: took / to / Jaipur. / train / a / We
  23. 23.Make a sentence: We / night. / on / lit / diyas / Diwali
  24. 24.Make a sentence: to / train / a / Jaipur. / We / took
  25. 25.Make a sentence: a / to / Riya / wrote / letter / grandmother. / her
  26. 26.Make a sentence: took / train / to / Jaipur. / We / a
  27. 27.Make a sentence: to / a / wrote / grandmother. / Riya / her / letter
  28. 28.🪔 What is this? (a) diya (b) sweets (c) fireworks (d) train
  29. 29.📷 What is this? (a) camera (b) sweets (c) film (d) fireworks
  30. 30.🏖️ What is this? (a) letter (b) temple (c) beach (d) fireworks
  31. 31.Make a sentence: diyas / We / on / lit / Diwali / night.
  32. 32.🎬 What is this? (a) picnic (b) sweets (c) film (d) train
  33. 33.Make a sentence: wrote / Riya / a / grandmother. / to / her / letter
  34. 34.Make a sentence: letter / her / wrote / grandmother. / to / a / Riya
  35. 35.Make a sentence: night. / lit / on / We / diyas / Diwali
  36. 36.Make a sentence: took / train / We / a / Jaipur. / to
  37. 37.Yesterday, I ___ to the market. (a) go (b) goes (c) went
  38. 38.Make a sentence: Diwali / We / night. / lit / diyas / on
  39. 39.Make a sentence: wrote / grandmother. / letter / Riya / a / to / her
  40. 40.🛕 What is this? (a) train (b) temple (c) beach (d) fireworks

Answer key

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

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