Institución Educativa Magdalena

“Educando con amor, para un futuro mejor”

GUÍA INGLÉS N° 4 cuarto periodo
Docente: Área Humanidades - Inglés Fecha: octuber-13 Curso: 8° y 9 °
th-2020

Topic: simple past affirmative

El pasado simple es un tiempo verbal que se utiliza para hablar sobre una acción o algo

que tuvo lugar en el pasado y que ya no tiene relación alguna con el presente.

estructura gramática:
Practice exercises
1 Write the past simple form of these sentences using the verb in parentheses.

1. I   (walk) home after work yesterday.

2. children   (play)in the park last Sunday.

3. The people   (wait) two hours for a bus.

4. I   (like)the party last night. It was fun.

5. Everybody  . (Laugh)It was a funny joke.

6. We   (pass) Seville University on the bus. It was very elegant.

7.The train   (stop) at the station for ten minutes.

8. John is a bad student. He  (copy) my English exam yesterday.

9. At the end of the song all the people  (clap).

10. We   (carry)the suitcases from the airport to the hotel.

2. read the text and write the verbs that are in the past simple.

text in past simple in English

Sally left home when she was 18.

She didn’t want to go to university, so she went to work in a book shop in
London.
One day, a customer came to the store. His name was Bill, and he was tall and
handsome. He liked Sally, and asked her out.
They went out to dinner and had a nice time. Bill told Sally that he worked in a
bank in the financial district.
Sally liked Bill, too. After dinner, they kissed in front of her door.
She smiled and said that she hoped she would see him again.
Nobody is sure how it happened, but Sally and Bill fell hopelessly in love,
and ended up getting married.
They moved into a small flat together, and paid incredibly high rent prices for a
few years, until Sally announced that she was pregnant.
Bill asked for a loan from the bank so they could buy a nicer flat in a friendlier
neighborhood outside London. Sally quit her job, and a few months later
she had her baby. They named the baby Andrea.
For a while, they were very happy…

Write on your notebook ALL the given sentences in this worksheet and translate them into
Spanish.
NOTA: Para enviar tus respuestas debes copiar los ejercicios en tu cuaderno con letra legible,
tomar fotos nítidas a tu trabajo, marcar las hojas con tu nombre completo, grado y número de
guía.