Past Simple Questions and Negatives - Grammar Practice
An A2 lesson on past simple questions and negatives, with contextual examples, grammar guidance, controlled practice and space for written answers. Includes an answer key and teacher notes.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Contextual examples and grammar guidance
- Choose, complete and rewrite activities
- Space for written answers
- Answer key and teacher notes on page 3
Make past-simple questions and negatives with did / didn't plus a base verb. The A2 lesson includes a missed-film dialogue, weekend-trip gaps, sentence transformations and speaking; page 3 contains the key.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Review positive past forms, then contrast bought with Did you buy? and didn't buy. Keep was / were separate from did patterns.
- Read the dialogue and complete Part A, checking auxiliaries and base verbs.
- Fill Part B carefully: some gaps need did / didn't and others need the main verb. Make Part C negatives and questions.
- Write the three Part D sentences and follow the partner prompts, reporting one thing a partner did and one they didn't do.
Support and extension
For support, use auxiliary + subject + base-verb question frames. Accept did not as well as didn't when it fits. Avoid a past form after did and do not duplicate a printed negative. Questions and negatives with past be use was / were, not did.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
