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EFL and ESL GRAMMAR WORKSHEET KIDS

SIMPLE PAST Irregular affirmative

1 Robert the Explorers Irregular Journey

Robert the explorer traveled back to his homeland

in his big old boat, but a pirates ship
asked him to stop.
The pirate showed Robert a trunk with gold coins.
Robert was surprised, and asked him: What do you want?
"Can you solve this riddle? Then we can share the coins!

Where you go, I long ago

What you eat. I ate

and enjoyed

Where you sleep, I slept and dreamed

What you take, I took

with the help of my men

What you give, I gave to my beloved King,

but I still cant explain why the verbs in the coins change?
Robert smiled and said, "Its simple!
Some verbs just like to change ...
All you have to do is remember them!"

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2 Match the irregular past coins with correct verb.

have make see come find forget run do buy drink
made

had

found

did

came

ran
drank

forgot

bought
saw

3 Complete the end of the story with the verbs above.

The pirate and Robert were rich and happy.
They (1)_____ wine and (2)____a good time.
They (3)____ food and talked and laughed.
Robert (4)____ a new boat with the all the money he now owns.
The boat was big with many rooms.
The pirate (5)____ Roberts boat inside
And he liked it very much.
He talked and talked and, oops! (6)_____
to jump out of the boat.

Now Robert and the pirate are in the middle of the sea
together
forever
and ever.

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4 Complete the story with verbs in parentheses in the past. Then read the story aloud.

This is the Giganotosaurus Carolini, the biggest carnivorous dinosaur in the world. Ruben Carolini, an
Argentinean paleontologist, (1) _______(find) 80% of this dinosaurs bones in Villa El Chocn, Neuquen,
Argentina. This big dinosaur (2)______ (have) two legs and a 2 meter head. It was 14 meters long and
weighed 10,000kg.
The gigantosaurus (3)____ (eat) meat and (4)____ (have) 22 centimeter teeth! It lived 100 million years
ago. Phew!

5 Complete the description with the past of following verbs.

EAT HAVE

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RUN

HAVE

BE

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The Saber Tooth Tiger lived in North America and in South America in the Ice Age. They (1) ____ large
canine teeth (18 cm long!) They (2)______ very fast. They (3)______ other animals like horses, buffalos
and antelopes. They lived in packs and (4)_____ a social structure like lions. They (5)______ fierce.

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ANWER KEY GRAMMAR WORKSHEET

KIDS SIMPLE PAST Irregular affirmative

2
have-had
make-made
see-saw
come-came
find-found
forget-forgot
run-ran
do-did
buy-bought
drink-drank

3
1 drank
2 had
3 made

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4 bought
5 saw
6 forgot

4
1 found
2 had
3 ate
4 had
5 saw
6 forgot

5
1 had
2 ran
3 ate
4 had
5 were

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