Santa Claus lives in the North Pole.

He
is very busy lately. He is preparing lots
of toys for all the girls and boys around
the world. He receive and read every
letter carefully. Then he works with
his hardworking elves in his clean and
comfortable workshop.
There, he plans well the work to do.
The elves work hard. They make many
lovely toys. Santa feeds the reindeers
and clean their stables.
Santa’s reindeer are Dasher, Dancer,
Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid,
Donner, Blitzen and Rudolf. They are
very happy in Christmas.

Answer the following The shaded words are in the past

questions: tense:
1. Who was very busy? Now work these in the past tense:
2. Why was he busy?
3. What did he do? 1) The elf ______(work) hard.
4. Who else worked in his 2) The reindeer ______(kick)
workshop? hard.
5. What did he clean? 3) Santa ______ (smile) at the
6. Mention the reindeer elves.
names? 4) The elf ______(pick) up the
7. Did you write a wish list for toys.
Christmas? 5) The children _____(look) at
8. What would you like for the Christmas tree.
Christmas? 6) Mum ________(bake) a
Christmas cake.
Fill in with was or were: 7) Dad _________ (fill) the bowl
1. He ____ very busy. with candy canes.
2. The reindeer _____ Give the past tense to these
comfortable in their verbs:
stables. push, pull, wave, jump, call, skip, roll.
3. The elves ____ singing.