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Simple Past Tense Worksheet for Kids

Spoken English lesson 17: Talking about yesterday · Set 242 · 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”).

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

Answer key

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

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