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Simple Past Tense Worksheet for Kids

Spoken English lesson 17: Talking about yesterday · Set 378 · 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.We ___ cricket last Sunday. (a) played (b) play (c) plays
  2. 2.🎆 What is this? (a) train (b) fireworks (c) temple (d) diya
  3. 3.Make a sentence: Grandmother / sweets / everyone. / for / made
  4. 4.She ___ a beautiful rangoli on Diwali. (a) made (b) make (c) makes
  5. 5.Which sentence says “We lit diyas on Diwali night.”? (a) We lit diyas on Diwali night. (b) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (c) We took a train to Jaipur.
  6. 6.Which sentence says “Yesterday, I watched a funny film.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) We took a train to Jaipur. (c) Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
  7. 7.Make a sentence: wrote / Riya / a / grandmother. / her / letter / to
  8. 8.Which sentence says “Last week, we went to the beach.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) Grandmother made sweets for everyone. (c) Last week, we went to the beach.
  9. 9.Arjun ___ very happy last week. (a) were (b) is (c) was
  10. 10.Which sentence says “Grandmother made sweets for everyone.”? (a) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother. (b) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (c) Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
  11. 11.Make a sentence: grandmother. / letter / her / to / a / Riya / wrote
  12. 12.Make a sentence: diyas / lit / night. / Diwali / We / on
  13. 13.Make a sentence: sweets / Grandmother / made / for / everyone.
  14. 14.Which sentence says “We took a train to Jaipur.”? (a) We took a train to Jaipur. (b) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (c) We lit diyas on Diwali night.
  15. 15.Which sentence says “Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.”? (a) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother. (b) Last week, we went to the beach. (c) We lit diyas on Diwali night.
  16. 16.Make a sentence: Jaipur. / took / a / train / We / to
  17. 17.Make a sentence: lit / on / diyas / We / night. / Diwali
  18. 18.We ___ a lot of photos at the zoo. (a) taken (b) take (c) took
  19. 19.🧺 What is this? (a) temple (b) picnic (c) film (d) diya
  20. 20.Make a sentence: Diwali / diyas / on / We / lit / night.
  21. 21.🛕 What is this? (a) fireworks (b) picnic (c) letter (d) temple
  22. 22.📷 What is this? (a) train (b) film (c) camera (d) letter
  23. 23.Make a sentence: train / We / a / to / Jaipur. / took
  24. 24.Make a sentence: night. / We / lit / on / Diwali / diyas
  25. 25.Make a sentence: Jaipur. / train / a / We / to / took
  26. 26.They ___ at home yesterday. (a) was (b) are (c) were
  27. 27.Yesterday, I ___ to the market. (a) goes (b) went (c) go
  28. 28.🪔 What is this? (a) sweets (b) camera (c) diya (d) train
  29. 29.Did you ___ the film? (a) watches (b) watch (c) watched
  30. 30.Make a sentence: on / night. / We / diyas / Diwali / lit
  31. 31.Make a sentence: diyas / We / lit / on / night. / Diwali
  32. 32.Make a sentence: everyone. / made / sweets / Grandmother / for
  33. 33.Make a sentence: made / for / everyone. / Grandmother / sweets
  34. 34.Make a sentence: letter / her / grandmother. / to / wrote / Riya / a
  35. 35.We ___ cricket last Sunday. (a) play (b) plays (c) played
  36. 36.Make a sentence: for / Grandmother / made / everyone. / sweets
  37. 37.Make a sentence: a / to / grandmother. / her / wrote / Riya / letter
  38. 38.Make a sentence: a / to / train / Jaipur. / We / took
  39. 39.Make a sentence: night. / diyas / lit / We / on / Diwali
  40. 40.Make a sentence: Diwali / lit / diyas / on / We / night.

Answer key

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

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