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to cover, to drive, to fall, to scan, to reduce, to catch, to fight, to race, to pay, to travel, to mean, to
tell, to explain, to refer, to rise, to fly, to betray, to talk, to spend, to find, to fill, to know, to beg, to
wear, to say, to play.
Regular Verbs Irregular Verbs
3. Complete the sentences with was or were.
Last summer my parents and I 1… on our holidays at the seaside. It 2… the most terrible rest
in my life! Firstly, the hotel 3… too expensive and the service 4… horrible. There 5… too many
people staying in the hotel. The stuff 6… rude and the food in the restaurant 7… disgusting.
Secondly, the beach 8… dirty and there 9… no chaise loungers to lie on. The weather 10… cloudy
and windy. There 11… no excursions and no shops to buy souvenirs. My mother 12… disappointed,
but father 13… really happy. He 14… busy sleeping, reading and watching TV. When our holidays
15… over my mother and I 16… really happy to return home. But Dad 17… upset because this rest
18… the best in his life.

4. Rewrite the text in the Past Simple Tense.
While travelling with the explorer Vitus Bering in 1741, a naturalist Georg Steller discovers
an amusing defenseless mammal near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea. It is a sea cow. The
animal looks somewhat like a large seal, but has two stout forelimbs and a whale-like tail. The sea
cow growns up to 7.9 metres long and weighs up to three tons. According to Steller, the animal
never comes out on shore but always lies in the water. Its skin is black and thick and its head is
small in proportion to the body. Sea cows’ habitat stretches along the North Pacific coast to Japan
and California. Scientists suppose that the arrival of humans is the cause of their extinction. People
hunt sea cows for their meat. The animals die out within 27 years of their discovery.

5. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple Tense.
1. Dolly … (to see) me talking to my coach yesterday. 2. Henry … (to recognize) the man and
… (to tell) me about it a few minutes ago. 3. Last spring we … (to spend) a week in the cottage
house and then … (to return) to the town. 4. I … (to get) a message from you just an hour ago and
… (to take) a taxi to get to the airport. 5. The house … (to be) full of smoke and we … (to hear) a
cry for help. 6. Nigel … (to take) a pen and … (to write) something on a piece of paper. 7. The
children … (to decide) to repair their bicycle and … (to ask) Alex to help them. 8. The hurricane …
(to be) very strong and … (to destroy) half of the buildings in the town. 9. Sue … (to cancel) the
appointment with the manager and … (to hurry) to the hospital. 10. When the surgeon … (to finish)
the operation he … (to feel) completely exhausted. 11. Yesterday Nora … (to leave) me a note that
she … (to want) to see me. 12. The train … (to arrive) on time and Fred … (to see) Linda coming
off the carriage. 13. When a group of tourists … (to come) to the castle, the guide … (to show) them
around and … (to answer) their questions. 14. Mike … (to have) an appointment with his employee
last Wednesday and … (to promise) to make all necessary calculations as quickly as possible. 15.
Julia … (to buy) a magazine and … (to go) to the bus stop to meet her friend.

6. Complete the text with the following verbs given below in the Past Simple Tense:
a) to paint, b) to die, c) to grow, d) to study, e) to return, f) to spend,
g) to go, h) to take, i) to be, j) to begin, k) to attend, l) to get.
Leonardo Da Vinci
The illegitimate son of a 25-year-old notary, Ser Piero and a peasant girl Caterina, Leonardo
was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy, just outside Florence. His father 1… the boy to his house
where Leonardo 2… up. Leonardo never 3... public school but he had access to scholarly texts
owned by family and friends. When Leonardo 4... 15 his father apprenticed him to Andrea del
Verrocchio, the leading artist of Florence. Leonardo 5… at Verrocchio’s studio for more than ten
years and got the degree of a master. In 1482 Leonardo became a court artist for the duke of Milan,
Ludovico Sforza and 6… seventeen years working for him. During his long stay in Milan Leonardo
7… “The Virgin” and “The Last Supper” and many other paintings and drawings. He also spent

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