Time Travelers: Exploring Past Tense for Class 2 

This cheerful worksheet introduces Class 2 learners to regular past tense verbs through visuals, story sentences, and fun matching and coloring activities. With verbs like “played,” “cleaned,” and “helped,” students build fluency in recognizing and applying past tense forms to describe actions that have already happened. 

Why Past Tense Matters in Grammar? 

Learning past tense verbs helps students: 
1. Talk and write about things that happened yesterday or earlier. 
2. Understand how verb endings like -ed work in regular past tense. 
3. Improve reading comprehension by recognizing action timelines. 
4. Form grammatically correct sentences with proper time references. 

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

This worksheet includes five well-sequenced activities: 

🖍️ Exercise 1 – Colour the Correct Past Tense Verbs 
Students identify and color boxes that contain correct past tense forms like “laughed,” “danced,” and “cooked” from a mix of verbs. 

🔗 Exercise 2 – Match the Subject and Verb 
Learners match verbs in Column A with their correct past tense forms in Column B (e.g., brush → brushed, clean → cleaned). 

✅ Exercise 3 – Choose the Correct Verb Form 
Students look at images and select the right past tense verb from two options (e.g., walk/walked, cried/cries). 

✏️ Exercise 4 – Fill in the Blanks 
Students complete 8 sentences with the correct past tense form of a verb provided in brackets. 

🔄 Exercise 5 – Sentence Reordering 
Jumbled words are given, and students must rearrange them to form meaningful past-tense sentences. 

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators) 

Exercise 1 – Past Tense Verbs to Color 
Laughed, Cleaned, Danced, Cooked, Helped 

Exercise 2 – Matching Pairs 
Brush → brushed 
Clean → cleaned 
Work → worked 
Mark → marked 
Fix → fixed 
Pass → passed 
Pack → packed 

Exercise 3 – Past Tense Verb Choice 
1. walked 
2. peeled 
3. played 
4. barked 
5. jumped 
6. shouted 
7. opened 
8. cried 

Exercise 4 – Fill in the Blanks 
1. placed 
2. played 
3. cleaned 
4. finished 
5. drew 
6. wrote 
7. arranged 
8. laughed 

Exercise 5 – Sentence Rearrangement 
1. We played kabaddi yesterday. 
2. The girl painted a doll. 
3. I packed my bag. 
4. She washed her hands. 
5. They danced on the stage. 

Support your child’s storytelling and writing skills by helping them master past tense verbs through this delightful worksheet. 

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