Past simple

Exercise 1
Put the regular verbs in the correct category and translate them!
cry like stop wait stay fail travel hate visit move bake prefer
enjoy jump hurry agree marry explain carry offer care use try worry
- d only - ed only - ied double consonant + - ed
lived - lni cleaned - tiszttani studied - tanulni shopped - vsrolni










Exercise 2
Complete the story with the correct forms the verbs in brackets.
travel rob hurry start carry enter throw use can
A young man, aged 13, .............................. the Erste Bank in Esztergom yesterday night.
He ........................... his toy gun and ............................. by his father's black BMW.
He ........................... the money in his sister's school bag. The young man .....................
to his grandma's garden to hide the money there. When he .......................... the garden,
he . see a policeman. The policeman ..................... to run after him. The young
man ....................... the bag with the money. - Suddenly, he could hear his telephone ringing.
"Peter, are you still asleep?"
"Oh, mum. I had a terrible dream!"

Exercise 3
Fill in the missing forms.
be .....................
begin .....................
................ broke
buy .............
come ................
............ cut
eat ...........
fall ..........
............ got
give ..........
.......... had
hear .............
hurt ..........
............. left
make .........
............. met
put ..........
ride .........
........... ran
............ send
sit ...........
.......... slept
stand ...........
take .........
wake ............
write .............
Exercise 4
1. I _______________ (buy) some food for lunch.
2. Who _______________ (meet) you at the airport?
3. We all _______________ (have) the same idea.
4. _______________ (do) you speak to Sophie?
5. I _______________ (see) the football match earlier.
6. He _______________ (give) us a lift into town.
7. She _______________ (read) three books in one week!
8. They _______________ (take) a taxi to the hotel.
Exercise 5
1. She _________________ (bring) some chocolate to the party.
2. I _________________ (hear) a new song on the radio.
3. I _________________ (read) three books last week.
4. They _________________ (speak) French to the waitress.
5. He _________________ (understand) it during the lesson, but now he doesn't
understand.
6. I _________________ (forget) to buy some milk.
7. She _________________ (have) a baby in June.
8. You _________________ (lose) your keys last week.
9. They _________________ (swim) 500m.
10. I _________________ (give) my mother a CD for Christmas.
11. At the age of 23, she _________________ (become) a doctor.
12. I _________________ (know) the answer yesterday.
13. He _________________ (tell) me that he lived in Toronto.
14. We _________________ (lend) John 200.
15. She _________________ (drink) too much coffee yesterday.
16. The children _________________ (sleep) in the car.
17. He _________________ (keep) his promise.
18. I _________________ (choose) a steak for dinner.
19. The film _________________ (begin) late at night.
20. We _________________ (fly) to Sydney.
21. They _________________ (drive) to Beijing.
22. He _________________ (teach) English at the University.
23. I _________________ (send) you an e-mail earlier.
24. We _________________ (leave) the house at 7 a.m..
25. He _________________ (feel) terrible after eating the fish.
Exercise 6 - Translation
1. Nagyon j volt Rebeka bulija tegnap. Mirt nem jttl?

2. Az a problmm, hogy elz hten lefoglaltuk a repjegyeket, de az idjrs nagyon rossz vlt
Grgben.

3. Dlutn meggettem a kezem, amikor forr tet ittam.

4. Elkaptam a ntht, vigyzz! Anyu mg a dokihoz is elvitt dleltt.

5. A kzpiskols nem sok rlt dolgot csinlt, ami sokat jelentett nekem.

6. Megtanultam szmos verset Adytl, 20-nl tbb knyvet olvastam Stephen Kingtl.

7. Engedtem a kutymat a szomszd macskjval jtszani, de Buksi elvesztette az eszt, s megette a
macskt.

8. 200.000-t fizettem az egyetemnek, de otthagytam (kilptem) 1 hnap utn.

9. A Spektrum bemutatta, hogy a Titanic tbb, mint 100 ve sllyedt el.

10. Azt gondoltam, hogy megrthetem a frfiakat, de Dr. Csernus is hazudott.

11. Az exem megnyerte a lottt. rtam neki, de elkldtt a pokolba.

12. Fruzsival gyakran lgtunk egytt, s csrtunk a Coopbl Kinder Maxi Kinget.

13. Joker: Pucr vagyok. A pezsg be van htve!