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