4. Write five true sentences about what you did last weekend. Use past simple forms of the verbs below to help you, or your own ideas.

1. Complete the sentences with the past simple affirmative form of the regular verbs below.

decide                die              drop              look              marry              move              stop              study              talk              want

1. My dad ________ maths at university.

2. We live in Oxford. We ________ here five years ago.

3. Jason ________ at me and smiled.

4 The train _______ at the station and we got off.

5. Jenny _______ on the phone with her friend for over two hours!

6. In the end, we _______ to go on holiday to Italy, not to France.

7. The goalkeeper had the ball, but then he _______ it.

8. My mum _________ my dad in 1988.

9. I _______ to go to the shopping mall, but my mum said no.

10. Sadly, my grandma _________ last year. She was 98.

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2. Complete the sentences. Use the past simple affirmative form of the irregular verbs in brackets.

1. Emma tried on a green dress and a blue dress in the clothes shop, and _____ (choose) the blue one.

2. I _____ (find) £20 in the street last Saturday.

3. We _______ (go) bowling yesterday evening.

4. Somebody ________ (steal) my smartphone from my schoolbag.

5. The film ________ (begin) at seven and finished at ten.

6. It_______ (take) six hours to drive from London to Edinburgh.

7. Hannah______ (feel) relieved when she got her exam results.

8. Tom and Matt ______ (be) upset that George didn't invite them to his party.

9. We _______ (get) home at eight o'clock on Sunday.

10. Millie _________ (spend) all her money on computer games.

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3. Complete the text with the past simple affirmative of the verbs in brackets.

Callie Rogers ¹ _______ (be) just sixteen when she ² _______ (win) the lottery in 2003. She ³ _______ (give) up her job as a shop assistant and ⁴ _______ (start) to spend her money. She ⁵ _______ (take) her family on expensive holidays, ⁶  _______ (invite) all her friends to big parties every weekend and ⁷ _______ (have) cosmetic surgery. Ten years later, she ⁸ _______ (have) just €2,000 left. But she’s happy now. ‘I ⁹ _______ (be) too young to win the lottery,’ she ¹⁰ _______ (say).

Tom Crist ¹¹ _______ (get) a big surprise when he ¹² _______ (answer) his phone on 16 December 2013. He ¹³ _______ (be) a lottery winner, and the prize ¹⁴ _______ (be) enormous - $40 million! He ¹⁵ _______ (decide) not to tell anyone about the win. He immediately ¹⁶ _______ (give) all the money to charities. ‘I don’t really need that money,’ he ¹⁷ _______ (say). ‘My wife ¹⁸ _______(died) earlier in the year so I ¹⁹ _______ (choose) cancer charities that ²⁰ _______ (help) her'.

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