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Simple Past Tense Worksheet for Kids

Spoken English lesson 17: Talking about yesterday · Set 258 · 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 “Grandmother made sweets for everyone.”? (a) We took a train to Jaipur. (b) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother. (c) Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
  2. 2.They ___ at home yesterday. (a) was (b) are (c) were
  3. 3.Which sentence says “We lit diyas on Diwali night.”? (a) We lit diyas on Diwali night. (b) Last week, we went to the beach. (c) We took a train to Jaipur.
  4. 4.She ___ a beautiful rangoli on Diwali. (a) makes (b) make (c) made
  5. 5.Did you ___ the film? (a) watched (b) watches (c) watch
  6. 6.Make a sentence: lit / on / Diwali / diyas / night. / We
  7. 7.Make a sentence: lit / Diwali / on / night. / diyas / We
  8. 8.Make a sentence: We / night. / Diwali / lit / diyas / on
  9. 9.Arjun ___ very happy last week. (a) was (b) were (c) is
  10. 10.Make a sentence: Riya / letter / grandmother. / her / to / wrote / a
  11. 11.Make a sentence: train / to / Jaipur. / a / took / We
  12. 12.Yesterday, I ___ to the market. (a) went (b) go (c) goes
  13. 13.Make a sentence: a / train / We / Jaipur. / took / to
  14. 14.Make a sentence: to / Jaipur. / We / took / a / train
  15. 15.Make a sentence: her / grandmother. / Riya / letter / wrote / to / a
  16. 16.Which sentence says “Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.”? (a) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother. (b) We took a train to Jaipur. (c) Yesterday, I watched a funny film.
  17. 17.🍬 What is this? (a) camera (b) beach (c) fireworks (d) sweets
  18. 18.🧺 What is this? (a) diya (b) beach (c) train (d) picnic
  19. 19.Make a sentence: took / We / Jaipur. / a / to / train
  20. 20.Make a sentence: to / a / her / grandmother. / wrote / letter / Riya
  21. 21.🚂 What is this? (a) train (b) temple (c) diya (d) picnic
  22. 22.We ___ cricket last Sunday. (a) played (b) play (c) plays
  23. 23.Make a sentence: on / We / Diwali / lit / diyas / night.
  24. 24.Which sentence says “We took a train to Jaipur.”? (a) We lit diyas on Diwali night. (b) We took a train to Jaipur. (c) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
  25. 25.Make a sentence: sweets / for / Grandmother / everyone. / made
  26. 26.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) We lit diyas on Diwali night.
  27. 27.Make a sentence: made / sweets / for / Grandmother / everyone.
  28. 28.Make a sentence: a / took / We / Jaipur. / train / to
  29. 29.Make a sentence: made / for / sweets / Grandmother / everyone.
  30. 30.Make a sentence: Diwali / night. / on / diyas / lit / We
  31. 31.Make a sentence: her / to / grandmother. / letter / a / Riya / wrote
  32. 32.Make a sentence: diyas / We / on / Diwali / night. / lit
  33. 33.I ___ my homework last night. (a) do (b) does (c) did
  34. 34.Which sentence says “Yesterday, I watched a funny film.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) Last week, we went to the beach. (c) We took a train to Jaipur.
  35. 35.Make a sentence: sweets / Grandmother / made / everyone. / for
  36. 36.We ___ a lot of photos at the zoo. (a) take (b) took (c) taken
  37. 37.🎬 What is this? (a) diya (b) film (c) letter (d) fireworks
  38. 38.Make a sentence: We / train / Jaipur. / to / took / a
  39. 39.🎆 What is this? (a) picnic (b) film (c) beach (d) fireworks
  40. 40.Make a sentence: diyas / night. / We / lit / on / Diwali

Answer key

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

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