Skip to content
Pick TwoActivity

Weekend news: past simple

Read three friends’ weekend messages and practise regular and irregular past simple verbs.

What did you do?

On Saturday I visited my grandmother. We cooked pasta and watched an old film. On Sunday it rained, so I stayed at home and played guitar.

visited
regular: visit + ed
cooked
regular: cook + ed
stayed
regular: stay + ed
went
irregular: go → went
saw
irregular: see → saw

1Complete with the past simple.

Last Friday weto the cinema. (go)

Which sentence is correct?

3Sort these past forms into the right group.

      Learn irregular verbs in threes.
      InfinitivePast simplePast participle
      gowentgone
      seesawseen
      eatateeaten

      4What did you do last weekend? Write two sentences in the past simple.

      Answers stay in this browser. Made with Pick Two Activity.