

This Grade 6 worksheet focuses on building a strong understanding of the Simple Past Tense (Regular & Irregular Verbs) through engaging and structured activities. Designed for middle school learners, it helps students confidently talk about completed actions in the past using correct verb forms.
With a variety of exercises such as multiple-choice questions, true or false identification, fill in the blanks, sentence rewriting, and paragraph completion, this worksheet ensures that learners practice both recognition and application of past tense forms in real-life contexts.
The simple past tense is essential for clear communication about past events. For Grade 6 learners, this topic is important because:
1. It helps describe completed actions in a clear and structured way.
2. It builds understanding of both regular (-ed) and irregular verb forms.
3. It improves storytelling and narrative writing skills.
4. It strengthens overall sentence construction and grammar accuracy.
This worksheet includes five grammar-rich activities that build fluency with the simple past tense:
Exercise 1 – Choose the Correct Option
Students select the correct simple past tense sentence from two given options, helping them identify correct verb forms.
Exercise 2 – True or False
Students evaluate whether sentences are correctly written in the simple past tense, building critical grammar awareness.
Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks
Learners complete sentences using the correct past tense form of verbs, strengthening their understanding of verb transformations.
Exercise 4 – Sentence Rewriting
Students rewrite present tense sentences into simple past tense, improving sentence structure and verb usage.
Exercise 5 – Paragraph Completion
A contextual passage helps students apply past tense verbs meaningfully, enhancing comprehension and writing skills.
Exercise 1 – Choose the Correct Option
1. ate 2. went 3. played 4. worked 5. visited
6. danced 7. read 8. painted 9. went 10. sang
Exercise 2 – True or False
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. True
6. False
7. False
8. True
9. True
10. False
Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks
1. drove
2. watched
3. went
4. did
5. played
6. ate
7. wrote
8. baked
9. watched
10. cleaned
Exercise 4 – Rewritten Sentences
1. They ate lunch at noon.
2. He ran every morning.
3. They visited the museum every month.
4. She played the piano every day.
5. We studied in the library.
6. He read books every day.
7. They walked to school every day.
8. She taught math every day.
9. She liked to swim every weekend.
10. He went to the park every day.
Exercise 5 – Paragraph Completion
went, bought, met, talked, left, rained, reached, was, got, changed, helped, told, waited, saw, talked, began, tried, looked
Boost your child’s confidence in storytelling and grammar with structured past tense practice today.
The simple past tense describes actions that happened in the past and are now complete.
Irregular verbs don’t follow the typical -ed pattern; they need to be memorized.
A common mistake is forgetting to change the verb form for irregular verbs.