begin – began

forgive - forgave
eat - ate
learn - learned

Affirmative
I
You
He
She ate a sandwich yesterday morning.
It learned to ride a bike four years ago.
We
They
You

Negative
DID
I
You
He
She did not study last week
It didn’t
We
They
You

The children helped the woman

The children didn’t help the woman

Change these sentences into negative form

We needed to design the class
…………………………………………………………….
They swam in the river in their last trip
…………………………………………………………………..
My sister learned to ride a bike three years ago
………………………………………………………………..
Carlos forgot to bring his homework.
……………………………………………………………………..
Questions

I
You
He

?
did She listen to the news yesterday
It
We
They
You

She got the job

Did she get the job?
Yes, she did
No, she didn’t

Change these sentences into questions

he watched tv yesterday evening

……………………………………
She taught to ride a horse.
……………………………………….
 They analyzed the test
……………………………………………
Raul thought to change his personality
……………………………………………………….

Who was this person?

I was
You were
He
She was eating a hamburger
It
We
They were
You

She arrived at home when my mom was cooking.

They were washing the car while he was watching TV.

Practice

Write what Jean DID or DIDN’T do yesterday:

go shopping ( - ) … Jean didn’t go shopping yesterday.

clean the house ( + ) …………………………………………
feed the cat ( + ) .………………………………………………
telephone Mary ( - ) ………………………………
watch a film on TV ( - ) ………………………………………
visit her grandparents ( + ) ………………………………………………
take them a cake ( + ) …………………………………………

complete the sentences with the verbs

watched / went / ate /wrote /was/ cleaned/ painted / studied

1 Yesterday I …was…….in the park.

2 My mother ……….…... a book last year. It’s very interesting.
3 Peter …………... this picture when he was younger.
4 We ………… TV last weekend.
5 I …………. to school at 9:30 a.m.
6 Sarah …………. two sandwiches yesterday.
7 Yesterday the children ……….. the window.
8 I …………… for the test last night. I’m not nervous.

Read about Benjamin franklin an complete with the verbs in brackets in the
past form

Benjamin Franklin …… was born ….. (be born) in Boston in 1706. He

………………… (be) the fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor
candlemaker. He …………………(go ) to school only one year. He
…………………………… (begin) to work when he was twelve. At the age of
fourteen he …………………………… (decide) to be a writer. He
…………………. (copy) the great stories of famous writers and later he
…………………………… (become) the best known writer in his time.
When he ………………….. (be) seventeen, he ………………………… (leave)
Boston and

…………………………… (arrive) in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his

pocket. He ……………………… (get) a job as a publisher of a newspaper and
……………………. (retire) from business as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he
………………………. (spend) the next forty years for his government. He
………………………. (play) an important role in the founding of the USA.
 Franklin ……………… (be) also an important scientist and inventor. He
……………. (draw) electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He
……………………… (write) one of the first text books on electricity. He
……………………… (invent) a simple lightning rod and many other practical
tools. He ……………………… (make) a study of water and
………………………. (discover) many principles of hydrodynamics. He even
………………………… (invent) bifocal glasses when he was seventy-eight and
……………………… (need) them himself.

Franklin ……………… (do) all these things and many more because he
…………….……… (believe) he ………………………… (can).

Fill in the blanks with a correct form of PAST CONTINUOUS:

1 Alice hurt herself while she ………………………………. (skate).

2 I met my neighbor while I ………………………………. (walk) home from work.
3 Sally saw a friend while she ……………………….. (ride) her bicycle along Park
St.
4 Peter fell asleep while he ………………………………… (study).
5 Bob stepped on Jane’s feet while they…………….….. (dance) together.
6 I cut myself while I ………………………………. (shave).
7 Mr. and Mrs. Brown burned themselves while they………..…... (bake) cookies.
8 Tommy had a nightmare while he …………………………….. (sleep) at a friend’s
house.