Vocabulary Worksheets
Basic English Grammar, 4th Edition
Chapter 8: Expressing past time, part one
Answer Key
Worksheet 1
- is / very cold
- are / in South America
- lived / millions of years ago
- sailed / across the Atlantic Ocean
- was a president
- invented / the telephone
- were / in the last century
- landed / on the moon
Worksheet 2
- False
- True
- True
- False
- False
- True
- False
- False
- True
- True
Worksheet 3
1. b. reptiles
2. b. became
3. b. clearly
4. a. ruled
5. b. ancestors
6. a. thin
7. a. ate
8. b. everything
- b. developed
- b. bump
Worksheet 4
1. star a cosmonaut
2. a pill an airplane
3. gave got
4. an engineer a factory worker
5. into out of
6. company government
7. waited spent
8. an engineer an astronaut
9. often never
10. training science
Worksheet 5
- factories
- knew
- hero
- wrote
- chose
- engineers
- flew
- hobbies
Worksheet 6
- c. raised areas
- b. very basic
- d. members of the family who lived in the past
- c. good and brave people
- c. words and gifts of thanks
- b. strange
- c. all
- a. controlled
- c. the area of the stars
- d. study and practice
Worksheet 7
- windows
- floor
- sinks
- flowers
- walls
- furniture
Worksheet 8
- over / outside
- sweeping / floor / open
- dusting
- cleaning / kneeling / behind
- standing / pail
- vacuuming / window
Worksheet 9
- threw / flew / broke
- went / bought / began / finished
- were / watched / did / made
Worksheet 10
Hobbies:
cards
chess
knitting
stamp collecting
Occupations
engineer
fire fighter
lawyer
scientist
Housework
dusting
mopping
sweeping
vacuuming
Worksheet 11
- window / sink / toilet
- shopping / downtown / to the store
- cake / meat / a sandwich
- broom / mop / vacuum
- factory / hardware store
- extinct
- rock / bump
- an engineer
Worksheet 12
- fishing
- doctor
- roof
- dusted
- shower
- window
Worksheet 13
- b. an honor to meet you
- a. a big bump
- c. any space
- f. a million
- h. the hardware store
- j. water them
- d. extinct
- e. kneeling
Worksheet 14
every day:yesterday:
comeate
cookcame
docooked
eatdid
gohad
haveslept
sleepstood
standwalked
walkwent
writewrote
Worksheet 15
every week:last year:
bringbought
buybrought
catchcaught
drinkdrank
drivedrove
learnlearned
runran
teachtaught
thinkthought
watchwatched
Worksheet 16
on Tuesdays:last Tuesday:
breakbroke
flyflew
hearheard
leaveleft
likeliked
paypaid
speakspoke
take took
wakewanted
wantwoke
Worksheet 17
every year:last Tuesday:
beginbegan
crycried
findfound
islaughed
laughlost
losesaid
saysmiled
smiletold
tellwas
wearwore
Worksheet 18
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Vocabulary Worksheets
Basic English Grammar, 4th Edition
Chapter 8: Expressing past time, part one
1. broke
2. spoke
3. ate
4. went
5. saw
6. bought
7. came
8. said
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Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Permission granted to reproduce for classroom use.