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EFL and ESL GRAMMAR WORKSHEET KIDS

SIMPLE PAST Irregular affirmative

1 Robert the Explorer’s Irregular Journey

Robert the explorer traveled back to his homeland

in his big old boat, but a pirate’s 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 can’t explain why the verbs in the coins change?

Robert smiled and said, "It’s simple!

Some verbs just like to change ...

All you have to do is remember them!"

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found

2 Match the irregular past coins with correct verb.

have make see come find forget run do buy drink

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)____ Robert’s 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.

ran

bought forgot drank

had made

did

saw

came

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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 dinosaur’s bones in Villa El Chocón, 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 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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