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Simple Past Tense Worksheet for Kids

Spoken English lesson 17: Talking about yesterday · Set 509 · 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) plays (b) play (c) played
  2. 2.🏖️ What is this? (a) temple (b) fireworks (c) camera (d) beach
  3. 3.They ___ at home yesterday. (a) were (b) was (c) are
  4. 4.Which sentence says “Last week, we went to the beach.”? (a) Last week, we went to the beach. (b) Grandmother made sweets for everyone. (c) We took a train to Jaipur.
  5. 5.Make a sentence: Diwali / diyas / on / night. / We / lit
  6. 6.Make a sentence: a / We / to / Jaipur. / train / took
  7. 7.Make a sentence: Diwali / diyas / night. / lit / We / on
  8. 8.Did you ___ the film? (a) watch (b) watches (c) watched
  9. 9.Arjun ___ very happy last week. (a) is (b) was (c) were
  10. 10.Make a sentence: a / to / We / train / Jaipur. / took
  11. 11.Which sentence says “Yesterday, I watched a funny film.”? (a) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother. (b) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (c) We lit diyas on Diwali night.
  12. 12.Make a sentence: to / train / Jaipur. / We / took / a
  13. 13.Yesterday, I ___ to the market. (a) goes (b) go (c) went
  14. 14.Make a sentence: on / Diwali / lit / night. / We / diyas
  15. 15.Which sentence says “Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.”? (a) We took a train to Jaipur. (b) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother. (c) We lit diyas on Diwali night.
  16. 16.Make a sentence: We / took / train / to / Jaipur. / a
  17. 17.She ___ a beautiful rangoli on Diwali. (a) make (b) made (c) makes
  18. 18.I ___ my homework last night. (a) do (b) does (c) did
  19. 19.🚂 What is this? (a) temple (b) train (c) letter (d) fireworks
  20. 20.Make a sentence: took / We / Jaipur. / a / train / to
  21. 21.Which sentence says “We took a train to Jaipur.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) We took a train to Jaipur. (c) Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
  22. 22.Which sentence says “Grandmother made sweets for everyone.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) Last week, we went to the beach. (c) Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
  23. 23.We ___ a lot of photos at the zoo. (a) take (b) taken (c) took
  24. 24.Make a sentence: to / We / took / Jaipur. / a / train
  25. 25.Make a sentence: on / diyas / Diwali / lit / We / night.
  26. 26.Make a sentence: made / for / everyone. / Grandmother / sweets
  27. 27.Make a sentence: on / Diwali / We / diyas / lit / night.
  28. 28.Make a sentence: grandmother. / wrote / Riya / her / letter / to / a
  29. 29.Make a sentence: night. / lit / on / We / diyas / Diwali
  30. 30.🎆 What is this? (a) sweets (b) film (c) beach (d) fireworks
  31. 31.Make a sentence: Riya / grandmother. / a / wrote / letter / to / her
  32. 32.📷 What is this? (a) temple (b) camera (c) fireworks (d) beach
  33. 33.🧺 What is this? (a) picnic (b) camera (c) temple (d) train
  34. 34.Make a sentence: everyone. / for / made / sweets / Grandmother
  35. 35.🍬 What is this? (a) train (b) sweets (c) picnic (d) temple
  36. 36.Make a sentence: Grandmother / everyone. / made / sweets / for
  37. 37.🎬 What is this? (a) letter (b) train (c) film (d) sweets
  38. 38.Make a sentence: made / sweets / Grandmother / everyone. / for
  39. 39.🛕 What is this? (a) beach (b) letter (c) film (d) temple
  40. 40.Make a sentence: letter / grandmother. / to / a / Riya / her / wrote

Answer key

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

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