Download this free A1–A2 grammar worksheet PDF for English learners and teachers. This lesson helps students practise the past simple with regular verbs, irregular verbs, negatives, questions and the past of be.
Students learn how to use the past simple for finished actions in the past. The worksheet gives clear examples such as I watched a film yesterday, She visited London last year, I arrived, They stopped and We lived in Cardiff.
The worksheet teaches regular past simple verbs with -ed, including common spelling changes. Students practise forms such as work → worked, play → played, start → started, study → studied, stop → stopped and live → lived.
Students also practise common irregular past simple verbs, including go → went, have → had, see → saw and buy → bought. The worksheet also covers negatives with did not / didn’t + base verb, questions with Did + subject + base verb?, and the past of be with was and were.
The PDF includes a grammar focus section, past simple exercises, choose-the-correct-form practice, sentence matching, mistake correction, mini-dialogues, sentence rewriting, meaning-and-form practice, speaking questions, writing practice, vocabulary and grammar sentence practice, an error-checking challenge, useful reminders and a full answer key.
This worksheet can be used in one-to-one lessons, group classes, online English lessons, adult ESL lessons, EFL classes, homework or independent grammar practice.
Level: A1–A2
Grammar point: Past simple regular and irregular verbs
Focus: grammar accuracy, finished past actions, regular verbs, irregular verbs, negatives, questions, speaking and writing
Format: Free grammar worksheet PDF with answer key
This free worksheet includes:
- a clear explanation of the past simple
- practice with finished past actions
- practice with regular verbs ending in -ed
- spelling practice with studied, stopped and lived
- practice with irregular verbs such as went, had, saw and bought
- practice with did not / didn’t + base verb
- practice with Did + subject + base verb?
- practice with was and were
- useful past time expressions
- choose-the-correct-form practice
- sentence-to-reason matching
- mistake correction
- mini-dialogues
- sentence rewriting
- meaning-and-form practice
- speaking practice
- writing practice
- vocabulary and grammar sentence practice
- an error-checking challenge
- useful reminder table
- full answer key for teachers and students
The worksheet focuses especially on common A1–A2 mistakes such as goed, didn’t watched, Did they arrived?, studyed, he were, stoped, didn’t had and Did you bought? The main classroom point is simple: use the past simple for finished past actions, use did not + base verb for negatives, use Did + subject + base verb? for questions, and learn common irregular past forms carefully.
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