ACTIVITY SIMPLE PAST 9 GRADE

6.1.2 EJERCICIOS
PAST SIMPLE
1. Put the verbs into the correct form (simple past):
1. Last year I (spend) __________ my holiday in Ireland.
2. It (be) ____________ great.
3. I (travel) ____________ around by car with two friends and we (visit) _________ lots of interesting places.
4. In the last evenings we usually (go) ___________ to a pub.
5. One night we even (learn) _________________ some Irish dances.
6. We (be) ______________ very lucky with the weather.
7. It (not / rain) ________________a lot.
8. But we (see) __________some beautiful rainbows.
9. Where (spend / you) _______________your last holiday?
10. Yesterday I (not/drive)______________my new car, that I (buy)___________two months ago.
2. Dinosaur information. Complete the descriptions of two dinosaurs. Use the Past simple form of the verbs in brackets:
ALLOSAURUS
The Allosaurus lived 154 to 144 million years ago. It (be) 1______________ about five metres long. It (walk)
2 ______________ on two legs and (have) 3______________ short arms, each with three fingers. The Allosaurus (have) 4 _______________ a big head, a heavy body and a large tail. Its teeth (be)
5 _____________ long and sharp, and it (hunt)
6 ______________ other animals for food. Sometimes it attacked and (kill) 7 ______________ much larger animals,
so it (be) 8 ________________ a very clever hunter.

The Brachiosaurus (be) 9 _____________ one of the largest dinosaurs. It
(have) 10_______________ a very small head, but it (be) 11 _______________ about
26 metres long and 15 metres tall. It (live) 12 _______________ at the same time as the Allosaurus.
The Brachiosaurus (walk) 13 _______________ on four legs and I (be) 14 _____________ a plant-eater. It (use) 15 _________________ its long neck to get leaves from the tallest trees. These dinosaurs probably (travel) 16 _________
slowly from place to place in groups. People first (discover) 17____________ the bones of a Brachiosaurus in 1900 in Colorado, USA.