Fill in the blanks with the SIMPLE PAST of the verbs in brackets:
Last Saturday my father.... took.... (take) my friends and me to the circus. We
(see) lots of things. My father
We
We
The lions
wonderful time.
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Fill in the blanks with the PAST form of the verbs:
Benjamin Franklin was bom.....(be born) in Boston in 1706. He
the fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor candle maker. He
school only one year. He
of fourteen he
great stories of famous writers and later he
known writer in his time.
When he
****
DENdagasod
Franklin
per
****
(get) a job as a publisher of a newspaper and
from business as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he
forty years for his govemment. He........
founding of the USA.
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Worksheet: Past Tense
(eat) the popcorn and
(laugh) at the funny clowns. There
(do) tricks; they
(jump)
(ride) an elephant around the ring. We all
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se
recense
Franklin
(be) also an important scientist and Inventor. He
.....….................... (draw) electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He............................ (write)
one of the first text books on electricity. He ......….......
lightning rod and many other practical tools. He
and sorpres
(buy) us some popcorn and orange juice.
(drink) the orange juice.
(be) a llon-tamer.
through hoops. A girl
(have) a
*adeves
(be)
(go) to
(begin) to work when he was twelve. At the age
..(copy) the
(become) the best
(be) seventeen, he
(leave) Boston and
(arrive) in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his pocket. He
.(retire)
(spend) the next
(play) an important role in the
(decide) to be a writer. He
f
(believe) he
(Invent) a simple
.....(make) a study of water
hydrodynamics. He even
(discover) many principles of
(invent) bifocal glasses when he was seventy-eight and
..….…........…...... (need) them hirnself.
........ (do) all these things and many more because he
(can).
..............
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have to
