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Simple Past Tense Worksheet for Kids

Spoken English lesson 17: Talking about yesterday · Set 488 · 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.Make a sentence: letter / wrote / to / a / her / Riya / grandmother.
  2. 2.Make a sentence: Jaipur. / We / a / train / took / to
  3. 3.Make a sentence: her / a / wrote / Riya / to / grandmother. / letter
  4. 4.We ___ a lot of photos at the zoo. (a) take (b) took (c) taken
  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) Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
  6. 6.We ___ cricket last Sunday. (a) played (b) play (c) plays
  7. 7.Arjun ___ very happy last week. (a) were (b) is (c) was
  8. 8.Which sentence says “Yesterday, I watched a funny film.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) We took a train to Jaipur. (c) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
  9. 9.Make a sentence: to / a / Riya / wrote / grandmother. / her / letter
  10. 10.Make a sentence: lit / Diwali / on / We / diyas / night.
  11. 11.Make a sentence: to / Jaipur. / a / train / took / We
  12. 12.I ___ my homework last night. (a) does (b) did (c) do
  13. 13.Make a sentence: grandmother. / her / to / Riya / a / letter / wrote
  14. 14.Yesterday, I ___ to the market. (a) went (b) goes (c) go
  15. 15.Which sentence says “Last week, we went to the beach.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother. (c) Last week, we went to the beach.
  16. 16.Make a sentence: lit / Diwali / on / We / night. / diyas
  17. 17.Make a sentence: made / sweets / for / everyone. / Grandmother
  18. 18.🚂 What is this? (a) train (b) diya (c) beach (d) picnic
  19. 19.Make a sentence: sweets / everyone. / Grandmother / made / for
  20. 20.Make a sentence: to / We / a / train / Jaipur. / took
  21. 21.Which sentence says “Grandmother made sweets for everyone.”? (a) We took a train to Jaipur. (b) Grandmother made sweets for everyone. (c) Yesterday, I watched a funny film.
  22. 22.Make a sentence: lit / diyas / Diwali / night. / on / We
  23. 23.Make a sentence: took / to / We / train / a / Jaipur.
  24. 24.🍬 What is this? (a) sweets (b) picnic (c) film (d) camera
  25. 25.Which sentence says “We took a train to Jaipur.”? (a) Grandmother made sweets for everyone. (b) We took a train to Jaipur. (c) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
  26. 26.They ___ at home yesterday. (a) were (b) are (c) was
  27. 27.She ___ a beautiful rangoli on Diwali. (a) make (b) made (c) makes
  28. 28.🎆 What is this? (a) camera (b) diya (c) picnic (d) fireworks
  29. 29.🎬 What is this? (a) sweets (b) diya (c) picnic (d) film
  30. 30.Make a sentence: to / letter / her / Riya / grandmother. / a / wrote
  31. 31.Make a sentence: her / grandmother. / letter / to / a / wrote / Riya
  32. 32.Did you ___ the film? (a) watched (b) watch (c) watches
  33. 33.Make a sentence: on / diyas / night. / Diwali / We / lit
  34. 34.Make a sentence: Jaipur. / We / to / train / a / took
  35. 35.Make a sentence: Grandmother / everyone. / sweets / for / made
  36. 36.Make a sentence: on / diyas / night. / lit / We / Diwali
  37. 37.Make a sentence: sweets / Grandmother / made / everyone. / for
  38. 38.Make a sentence: took / a / train / We / to / Jaipur.
  39. 39.Which sentence says “Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.”? (a) Last week, we went to the beach. (b) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother. (c) Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
  40. 40.Make a sentence: We / took / train / a / Jaipur. / to

Answer key

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

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