Irregular verbs
a. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.
1. Imane ……………… to find that it was already ten o’clock. (awake)
2. I ……………… nervous as the final exam came closer. (become)
3. He ……………… reading ‘War and Peace’ last month and he still haven’t finished it. (begin)
4. A rich woman ……………… $2.000.000 for the two paintings. (bid)
5. The police ……………… the criminal’s hands behind his back. (bind)
6. Hicham El-Guerrouj ……………… the world record for the 1500 metres in 3.26.00 minutes. (break)
7. The BBC first ……………… in 1936. (broadcast)
8. They ……………… a new public library near my school. (build)
9. It was a huge fire and all the furniture ………………. (burn)
b. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.
1. She ……………… a woollen scarf for her husband in Paris. (buy)
2. The policewoman ran after the thief and ……………… him. (catch)
3. I ……………… first in the latest English test. (come)
4. The cat ……………… silently towards the mouse and caught it. (creep)
5. He ……………… his finger with a knife. (cut)
6. I woke up to find that I wasn’t really rich. I only ……………… it. (dream)
7. The old lady’s loneliness ……………… her to commit suicide. (drive)
8. My little brother ……………… over and hurt his knee. (fall)
9. She ……………… a piece of glass in the pizza. (find)
c. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.
1. When the hunter fired his gun the tiger turned and ……………… (flee)
2. My sister ……………… a job as a secretary in a bank. (get)
3. Jalil’s uncle ……………… him a digital camera for his birthday. (give)
4. My grandfather ……………… blind when he was sixty. (go)
5. The young man ……………… himself in a fit of depression. (hung)
6. A motorbike ……………… the old lady while she was crossing the street. (hit)
7. My grandmother ……………… a sweater for the coming winter. (knit)
8. She ……………… her baby gently down on its bed. (lay)
9. Pablo Picasso ……………… Spain and went to live in France. (leave)
d. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.
1. The paintings ……………… a touch of beauty to the office. (lend)
2. He ……………… his family in a road accident last year. (lose)
3. The manager’s stupid remark ……………… the situation worse. (make)
4. He ……………… the lawn once last month. (mow)
5. He ……………… nearly $100 for these jeans. (paid)
6. I ……………… in the newspaper that they found a cure for migraine. (read)
7. The temperature nearly ……………… to 45° yesterday. (rise)
8. The teacher ……………… we should hand in our composition on ‘air pollution’ before Friday. (say)
9. He ……………… his car for nearly nothing. (sell)
e. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.
1. He asked a man the way to the nearest post office but he ……………… me in the wrong way. (send)
2. As he was very hungry, the wife ……………… a large bowl of soup in front of her husband. (set)
3. The young lady’s voice ……………… with sorrow as she described the deadly accident. (shake)
4. The hunter ………………the deer in its back. (shoot)
5. The little girl ……………… herself in her bedroom and refused to talk to her parents. (shut)
6. Titanic ……………… to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. (sink)
7. I only ……………… for a couple of hours last night. (sleep)
8. ‘The murderer ……………… his hand into his pocket, took out a gun and killed the lady,’ the witness
9. said. (slide)
10. I ……………… two weeks in London last summer. (spend)
f. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.
1. Jalil ……………… round when he heard someone call his name. (spin)
2. She took a small sip of the juice and ……………… it out. (spit)
3. The bad weather ……………… our holiday. (spoil)
4. The terrorist kidnapped a little girl and ……………… a car. (steal)
5. The epidemic ……………… the village within a few days. (sweep)
6. It ……………… me five years to learn German. (take)
7. My parents ……………… always to tell the truth. (teach)
8. He ……………… on my toe and didn’t even say sorry
9. Tolstoy ……………… ‘War and Peace’. (write)
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