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Simple Past Tense Worksheet for Kids

Spoken English lesson 17: Talking about yesterday · Set 600 · 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.Arjun ___ very happy last week. (a) is (b) was (c) were
  2. 2.Make a sentence: her / grandmother. / letter / wrote / to / Riya / a
  3. 3.She ___ a beautiful rangoli on Diwali. (a) make (b) made (c) makes
  4. 4.Make a sentence: lit / diyas / We / night. / on / Diwali
  5. 5.I ___ my homework last night. (a) did (b) does (c) do
  6. 6.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.
  7. 7.Which sentence says “We took a train to Jaipur.”? (a) We lit diyas on Diwali night. (b) We took a train to Jaipur. (c) Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
  8. 8.Yesterday, I ___ to the market. (a) go (b) goes (c) went
  9. 9.We ___ a lot of photos at the zoo. (a) took (b) taken (c) take
  10. 10.Which sentence says “Grandmother made sweets for everyone.”? (a) Grandmother made sweets for everyone. (b) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (c) Last week, we went to the beach.
  11. 11.📷 What is this? (a) film (b) camera (c) letter (d) fireworks
  12. 12.Make a sentence: lit / on / Diwali / night. / We / diyas
  13. 13.✉️ What is this? (a) fireworks (b) sweets (c) letter (d) train
  14. 14.Make a sentence: night. / We / lit / on / Diwali / diyas
  15. 15.Make a sentence: diyas / on / We / lit / night. / Diwali
  16. 16.Make a sentence: a / We / train / to / took / Jaipur.
  17. 17.Make a sentence: for / made / sweets / Grandmother / everyone.
  18. 18.🚂 What is this? (a) temple (b) sweets (c) letter (d) train
  19. 19.Make a sentence: Jaipur. / We / train / took / to / a
  20. 20.They ___ at home yesterday. (a) was (b) are (c) were
  21. 21.Make a sentence: everyone. / made / Grandmother / for / sweets
  22. 22.Make a sentence: Diwali / lit / We / night. / diyas / on
  23. 23.Make a sentence: for / everyone. / sweets / made / Grandmother
  24. 24.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 took a train to Jaipur.
  25. 25.We ___ cricket last Sunday. (a) play (b) plays (c) played
  26. 26.🎬 What is this? (a) beach (b) temple (c) film (d) sweets
  27. 27.Which sentence says “Last week, we went to the beach.”? (a) We lit diyas on Diwali night. (b) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (c) Last week, we went to the beach.
  28. 28.Make a sentence: a / Jaipur. / took / We / to / train
  29. 29.Make a sentence: on / night. / lit / diyas / Diwali / We
  30. 30.🎆 What is this? (a) fireworks (b) film (c) picnic (d) train
  31. 31.Make a sentence: to / Riya / a / letter / her / grandmother. / wrote
  32. 32.🧺 What is this? (a) sweets (b) train (c) picnic (d) letter
  33. 33.Which sentence says “Yesterday, I watched a funny film.”? (a) We took a train to Jaipur. (b) We lit diyas on Diwali night. (c) Yesterday, I watched a funny film.
  34. 34.🛕 What is this? (a) temple (b) letter (c) diya (d) picnic
  35. 35.Make a sentence: lit / on / diyas / Diwali / We / night.
  36. 36.Make a sentence: night. / diyas / on / We / Diwali / lit
  37. 37.🏖️ What is this? (a) film (b) letter (c) beach (d) camera
  38. 38.Make a sentence: train / to / a / took / Jaipur. / We
  39. 39.Make a sentence: everyone. / made / sweets / for / Grandmother
  40. 40.Make a sentence: Grandmother / for / sweets / made / everyone.

Answer key

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

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