Vocabulary Worksheets

Basic English Grammar, 4th Edition

Chapter 8: Expressing past time, part one

Answer Key

Worksheet 1

  1. is / very cold
  2. are / in South America
  3. lived / millions of years ago
  4. sailed / across the Atlantic Ocean
  5. was a president
  6. invented / the telephone
  7. were / in the last century
  8. landed / on the moon

Worksheet 2

  1. False
  2. True
  3. True
  4. False
  5. False
  6. True
  7. False
  8. False
  9. True
  10. 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

  1. b. developed
  2. 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

  1. factories
  2. knew
  3. hero
  4. wrote
  5. chose
  6. engineers
  7. flew
  8. hobbies

Worksheet 6

  1. c. raised areas
  2. b. very basic
  3. d. members of the family who lived in the past
  4. c. good and brave people
  5. c. words and gifts of thanks
  6. b. strange
  7. c. all
  8. a. controlled
  9. c. the area of the stars
  10. d. study and practice

Worksheet 7

  1. windows
  2. floor
  3. sinks
  4. flowers
  5. walls
  6. furniture

Worksheet 8

  1. over / outside
  2. sweeping / floor / open
  3. dusting
  4. cleaning / kneeling / behind
  5. standing / pail
  6. vacuuming / window

Worksheet 9

  1. threw / flew / broke
  2. went / bought / began / finished
  3. 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

  1. window / sink / toilet
  2. shopping / downtown / to the store
  3. cake / meat / a sandwich
  4. broom / mop / vacuum
  5. factory / hardware store
  6. extinct
  7. rock / bump
  8. an engineer

Worksheet 12

  1. fishing
  2. doctor
  3. roof
  4. dusted
  5. shower
  6. window

Worksheet 13

  1. b. an honor to meet you
  2. a. a big bump
  3. c. any space
  4. f. a million
  5. h. the hardware store
  6. j. water them
  7. d. extinct
  8. 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.