Past Simple vs Past Continuous pdf docx

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Speak English With Vanessa
Free PDF Worksheet
Past Verbs for Storytelling
Dear English Learner,
Get ready to speak confidently with these tricky English words. I recommend reading
this worksheet out loud and using the blank space on the last page to answer my
challenge question using the vocabulary. Thanks so much for learning English with me.
You rock!
Your teacher,
Vanessa
Past Simple
Past simple:
action that happened in the past.
You know a word is past simple because regular verbs end with “-ed”
Regular past simple verbs
Study→ Studied
I
studied
last night.
Practice→Practiced
I
practiced
English yesterday.
Learn→Learned
I
learned
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Irregular past simple verbs
Irregular verbs usually change their vowel sound (break→broke, wake→woke,
drink→drank)
Wake, go → woke, went
I
woke
up before my alarm
went
off.
Break, eat → broke, ate
I
broke
my cookies before I
ate
them.
Drink → drank
I
drank
my tea this morning.
QUIZ TIME
*answers on the last page
I can’t believe that yesterday I ________ in English for 30 minutes!
-speak
-spoke
-speaked
Past Continuous
Past Continuous:
action that was already happening at a certain time in the past.
The past continuous construction: was / were + “-ing” verb
Studied→ was studying
At 9pm, I
studied
for the test. → At 9pm, I