Упражнения и задания по грамматике

9. Past simple


Use

1. 
   past actions which happened one after the other
   

She sealed the letter, put a stamp on it and posted it

2. 
   past habit or state
   

He used to go/went to school on foot

3. 
   complete action or event which happened at a stated past time
   

She called an hour ago. (When? An hour ago.)
Action which happened at a definite past time although the time is not mentioned. This action is not connected with the present Shakespeare wrote a lot of plays. (Shakespeare is now dead; he won't write again. - period of time now finished)


Time expressions: yesterday, last week etc, (how long) ago, then, just now, when, in the 1945 etc.


9.1 Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verb in brackets:

Aztec civilization 1) (develop) developed in the Valley of Mexico, 7,500 feet above sea level. The Aztecs 2) (leave) _______ their own land of Aztlan at some time during the 12th or 13th century. They 3) (believe) _______ that Huitzilopochtli their war god 4) (want) _______ them to search for a new land. They 5) (arrive) _______ in the Valley of Mexico during the 12th or 13th century AD. They 6) (build) _______ their capital city, Tenochtitlan, on an island in Lake Texcoco. They 7) (plant) _______ trees on the island to make the land better, 8) (work) _______ hard and 9) (improve) _______ the land. When the Spanish 10) (arrive) _______ in 1519, Montezuma, the Aztec ruler, 11) (think) _______ that Cortez was a returning god. When the Spanish 12) (see) _______ the Aztecs' gold, they 13) (decide) _______ to conquer the city. Later they 14) (kill) _______ Montezuma, 15) (defeat) _______ the Aztecs and 16) (destroy) _______ Aztec religion and culture.

9.2 Complete the sentence with the past simple form of the verb in brackets. Then decide if each sentence is True or False:

1. Greek actors (wear) wore masks and special boots. True

2. Spartan children (take) _______ baths only two or three times a year.
3. The philosopher Sуcrates (drink) _______ poison and died.
4. Alexander the Great's army (go) _______ as far as China.
5. Heron of Alexandria (make) _______ a kind of jet engine.
6. The Roman Emperor Caligula's name (mean) _______ 'Happy Soldier'.
7. Roman mathematics (have) _______ no zero.
8. Most Roman girls (get) _______ married at the age of 18.
9. Roman soldiers (pay) _______ for their own equipment and food.
10. The Romans (know) _______ how to make soap and cement.


9.3* Complete the text with the past simple affirmative, negative or question forms of the verbs in brackets: