![]() ![]() There are several games that can easily be adapted to practise past tense verbs. These activities focus on the past simple, but they could be easily adapted to focus on the present perfect or the passive (if you wanted to focus on past participles). Here are some activities that can help students with both form and use of irregular and regular verbs. Only then might they be able to fully ‘learn’ regular and irregular verbs. My advice would be that students need to have opportunities not only to memorize the form but also put it to meaningful use. Nevertheless, I also know students who could recite the list of all the past tense irregular verbs off by heart and yet have great difficulty putting together a sentence like the one above, at least verbally. I (thinks, then mutters) go went gone… I went to the football game. Student: Yesterday, I go… the football game. go-went-gone, see-saw-seen, buy-bought-bought, make-made-made etc. I’ve lost count of the number of students I’ve met who can recall past tense verbs by saying them along with their infinitive forms. However, learning the form of irregular verbs is one of the few areas where, I feel, memorizing the 'list' actually works. That being said, whenever I came to the list of irregular verbs with a class I always hoped that I would discover a secret or a shortcut to enable my students to learn the forms of irregular verbs without the arduous task of memorising them. Unlike other parts of grammar it was cut and dried – the verb is either regular (add –ed) or not (change it, or not, in some other way). ![]() Teaching irregular and regular past tense verbs was, for a long time, one of my favourite activities. Sustainable Development and Global CitizenshipĬan you provide any practical suggestions and activities for teaching my class regular and irregular verbs?. ![]()
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