PAST SIMPLE

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PAST SIMPLE

• Complete the story

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The verbs in brackets - Past Simple

• Last year my mother and I (1.go) to a friends
  wedding in Italy.

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Past Simple

• We (2.drive) to Sorrento and then, after the
  wedding, we (3.do) some sightseeing and (4.take)
  some photographs.

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Past Simple

• It (5.be) quite hot and we (6.decide) to go to
  the beach outside the city.

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Past Simple

• We (7.change) into our swimsuits and (8.leave)
  our clothes, passports and cameras in the car in
  the car park.

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Past Simple

• We (9.spend) the day on the beach.
• When we (10.get) back to the car park at four
  oclock, we (11.can) not find the car.

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Past Simple

• We (12.have) nothing except our swimsuits and a
  little money.

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Past Simple

• We (13.buy) some cheap clothes to wear and
  (14.tell) the police.
• They (15.find) the car two days later quite near
  the beach.

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Past Simple

• Our passports, clothes and even our cameras
  (16.be) in the car!

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Past Simple

• We (17.find) also a note, which (18.say) Thanks
  for the ride! We (19.like) the car very much!
  Ciao!

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Answers

• 1. WENT
• 2. DROVE
• 3. DID
• 4. TOOK
• 5. WAS
• 6. DECIDED

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Answers

• 7. CHANGED
• 8. LEFT
• 9. SPENT
• 10. GOT
• 11. COULD
• 12. HAD

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Answers

• 13. BOUGHT
• 14. TOLD
• 15. FOUND
• 16. WERE
• 17. FOUND
• 18. SAID
• 19. LIKED