Teaching adverbs of frequency has to consist of several steps. First, the students have to learn the words. If they do not know the words it is useless to teach them the grammar. Once you are sure that the students know the adverbs you have to teach them where they should place them in a sentence. It is not easy to achieve this, but I hope that the following materials will help you.
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Adverbs of frequency – vocabulary
[/su_heading][su_spacer size=”30″] As I write above, it is neccessary to teach the vocabulary first. Here is a worksheet which tries to teach the vocabulary. I would recommend that you first translate the words with your students.In the worksheet there is a list of the adverbs, a crossword, a wordsearch and jumbled words.
The crossword might seem a bit intriguing as the students are supposed to solve it without any clues. They have to count the number of letters in each word and then combine them into the crossword. Do not forget to emphasise that each adverb is used only once.
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Adverbs of frequency – grammar
[/su_heading][su_spacer size=”30″] Once you are sure that the students know the words you should teach the grammar. The following mind map shows where the adverbs should be placed. You should point out that the words at the top of the pyramid show that the action happens infrequently, while the adverbs at the base say that something happens very often or regullarly.[su_spacer]
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Adverbs of Frequency practise
[/su_heading][su_spacer]And now if you have an interactive whiteboard at school you can try the following games and activities. These activities are in HTML5 so your students can try them on their phones or iPads too.
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This has been the third post on irregular verbs. There are 24 more irregular verbs presented in two videos. Then you can practise each group of verbs on a worksheet or in interactive games and quizzes. When I counted I found out that each verb is practised at least 7 times. I have tried the activities with my students and finally they are able to learn them.
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If you do not like this straightforward approach you can try other methods I have tried here. There are irregular verbs associative method, irregular verbs listening drill, irregular verbs in context and many others.
Irregular verbs #3 – videos
[/su_heading][su_spacer size=”30″] First, watch the videos and repeat the words. This time I have tried to present them slightly differently and I hope this way will be more effective.The other 12 verbs are presented in the following video:
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Irregular verbs – worksheets
[/su_heading][su_spacer size=”30″] The first worksheet contains all 24 verbs taught in the videos above. They are in a table and each verb is illustrated.Then there are two worksheets containing crosswords and word puzzles to practice the irregular verbs. The activities for the verbs from the first video are here. Be careful, you have to add a free square after each verb in the spiral puzzle:
Irregular verbs 05_vocabulary_ws
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The puzzles and crosswords for the second video are over here. Again you have to add a free square after each verb in the spiral puzzle:
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Irregular verbs #3 – interactive quizzes
[/su_heading][su_spacer size=”30″]The first two quizzes test the knowledge of the first twelve irregular verbs presented in the first video. The test is in HTML5 so you can play it on any mobile device. At the end of the quiz you can play a game.
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs/Irregular verbs 5 (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#771f9b” size=”6″]Irregular verbs #5 – simple quiz[/su_button]
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Then you can try the interactive crossword and wordsearch down here. Both of them are in HTML 5 so they will play on any device. You have to write both the past tense and past participle:
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/games/Wordsearch/codecanyon-2708856-word-search-game/?puzzle=irregular-verbs-05″ target=”blank” background=”#8cf5e7″ size=”6″]Irregular verbs – Wordsearch[/su_button]
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The following quizzes deal with the irregular verbs presented in the second video:
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Then there are a crossword and a wordsearch. Remember to write both the past tense and the past participle:
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I hope that by now you will have learnt all the 24 irregular verbs taught here.
Asking questions is one of the most important functions of a language. Making questions in English is quite easy, but students still need to understand the basics. I have tried to put all the basic rules into a mind map. Then I have come up with a story about question formation and several games to practice the grammar. I hope that now the students will be able to form the questions correctly.
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[/su_heading][su_spacer size=”30″] Display or print out the following mind map for all the students and explain that each question can start with a WH word followed by DO, DOES or DID. It might be a good idea to ask the students to name or describe the columns in their own words.ADVERT:
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Explaining grammar using the words like auxiliary, verb and subject might be a precise description of the grammar but it is very hard for students to understand. Moreover, people remember stories better than any explanation. And that is why I have created the following story to help my students use the auxiliaries correctly:
Once upon a time there was a land called Trainglish (train and English). And there were only SVOMPT trains with affirmative sentences. And in these trains V cars were the most important and most beautiful ones.
But one day the Great Constructor created an auxiliary train “DO”. But the “DO” car did not want to be just an ordinary train. He was very proud and selfish and he wanted to be the most important train in the world. So he started QUESTION trains. And as he was so big-headed he had to ride at the beginning of these trains. And as the other cars did not protest, he wanted more.
First he brought his family DOES and DID. Then he brought WH cars and they all drove at the beginning of each Question train. But it was not enough for him. He still wanted more. And thus he decided that no car can be more handsome than he.
“All the other cars have to be simple,” he announced. And that is why the V car lost all its endings and forms and it has be only in a simple form in Question Trains.
“And all the verbs agreed?”
“No, there was one that refused. It was the BE car. And ever since WAS, IS, ARE and WERE cars ride at the beginning of their Question trains. They allow only WH cars to join them.”
Questions – Quizzes and games
[/su_heading][su_spacer size=”30″] There are three quizzes and games to help the students remember the grammar. In the first HTML5 quiz you should put the words into the correct order to create questions. At the end of the quiz there is the game called Angry Finches. [su_button url=”https://engames.eu/question_words/Questions_present and past simple (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f08cf5″ size=”6″]Questions – Present simple and past simple[/su_button] [su_spacer size=”10″] The second quiz is again in HTML5. However this time, your task is to write the question to ask about the missing information. At the end of the quiz there is the game called Tower Defence. [su_button url=”https://engames.eu/question_words/Questions_Tower defence (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f08cf5″ size=”6″]Questions – Tower Defence[/su_button] [su_spacer size=”10″] Advert:[showmyadsa]
The last game is in Flash and therefore it will play only on your desktop. You have to choose the correct option and then you should hit your opponent. Good luck.
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Students make a lot of mistakes in present perfect tense. I have tried to collect the most typical ones and I have put them into a mind map and tried to explain the rules there. Moreover, I have added two games to give the students a chance to practice the grammar one more time.
To be able to form the present perfect tense correctly, it is necessary to know the past participles. Students can learn the past participles in the following posts:
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Common mistakes – Mind map
[/su_heading][su_spacer size=”30″] I have collected the following mistakes my students make:
In the first bubble there is the wrong sentence, then there is the correct sentence and at the end of each branch there is the explanation.
For teaching purposes it might be a good idea to leave the end of the branch empty and ask the students to come up with their own explanation. You can find the mind map here:
Common mistakes – Games
[/su_heading][su_spacer size=”30″] All the mistakes can be divided into three categories:- bad knowledge of the past participles
- Not using has
- wrong subject in the answers.
If you feel that you have problems with the past participles I recommend the following video:
If you need more practise of past participles and irregular verbs go to Irregular verbs straightforward and Irregular verbs straightforward#2.
To deal with problems 2 and 3 I have prepared two games. The first one is an HTML5 quiz and your task is to answer the tasks correctly. At the end there is a game as a reward for your effort.
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By now you should know the grammar well.
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[/su_heading][su_spacer size=”30″] If you would like to use the games in a classroom with no internet connection you can download the following files. You can share these games on your website too.
As students reacted very positively to the first post on irregular verbs I am going to continue with teaching the irregular verbs in this way. Once again I am going to teach 24 irregular verbs with their past tense and past participle. The verbs are divided into two groups of 12 and there are separate worksheets and videos for teaching them.
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If you are a teacher you do not have to use all of the activities and worksheets below. However, if you are a student I recommend that you complete all the worksheets and activities.
Irregular verbs #2 – video
[/su_heading][su_spacer size=”30″] First, watch the video and repeat the words. At the end you can stop the video or play the game and guess the verb that is being drawn. If you guess the verb you have to say the past tense and the past participle, too.The other 12 verbs are presented in the following video:
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[/su_heading][su_spacer size=”30″] The first worksheet contains all the verbs taught in this post. They are in a table and each verb is illustrated.Then there are two worksheets containing crosswords and word puzzles to practice the irregular verbs from the two videos. The activities for the first video are here:
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The puzzles and crosswords for the second video are over here:
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Irregular verbs #2 – quizzes
[/su_heading][su_spacer size=”30″]The first two quizzes test the knowledge of the first twelve irregular verbs presented in the first video. The test is in HTML5 so you can play it on your mobile device. If you pass the quiz you can play a game.
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs/Irregular verbs 3 (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#771f9b” size=”6″]Irregular verbs – simple quiz[/su_button]
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Then you can try the interactive crossword and wordsearch. Once again both of them are in HTML 5 so they will play anywhere. Write both the past tense and past participle:
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/games/Wordsearch/codecanyon-2708856-word-search-game/?puzzle=irregular-verbs-03″ target=”blank” background=”#8cf5e7″ size=”6″]Irregular verbs – Wordsearch[/su_button]
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The following quzzes deal with the irregular verbs presented in the second video. Once again there are three different activities to help you or your students remember all the irregular verbs. The first one is a simple HTML5 quiz:
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs/Irregular verbs 4 (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f08cf5″ size=”6″]Irregular verbs – Quiz no. 2[/su_button]
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Then there are a crossword and a wordsearch. Remember to write both the past tense and the past participle:
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I hope that by now you will have learnt all the 24 irregular verbs taught here.
I have already tried teaching irregular verbs in many ways. I have tried irregular verbs associative method, irregular verbs listening drill, irregular verbs in context and many others. However, the results were not very good. Only about half of the students know the verbs.
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That is why in my next four posts I would like to present 100 irregular verbs straightforward. I will provide the pronunciation of all the verbs and several simple activities for students to practice the verbs. No miracle cure, only hard work.
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Irregular verbs – video
[/su_heading] [su_spacer size=”30″]First, watch the video and repeat the words. At the end you can stop the video or play the game and guess the verb the man is drawing. If you guess the verb you have to supply the past tense and the past participle of the verb.
The second half of the verbs is presented in the following video:
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[/su_heading] [su_spacer size=”30″]The first worksheet contains all the verbs in a table.
Then there are two worksheets containing activities to practice the irregular verbs from the two videos. The activities for the first video are here:
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The activities for the second video are over here:
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Irregular verbs – quizzes
[/su_heading] [su_spacer size=”30″] [su_spacer size=”30″]The first two quizzes test the knowledge of the first thirteen verbs presented in the first video. The first test is in HTML5 so you can play it on your mobile device. If you pass the quiz you can play a game at the end.
[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs/Irregular verbs_simple_01 (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#771f9b” size=”6″]Irregular verbs – simple quiz[/su_button]Then you can try the following crossword and wordsearch. Once again both of them are in HTML 5 so they will play anywhere. Again write both the past tense and past participle:
[su_button url=”http://www.envocabulary.eu/crossword/?puzzle=irregular-verbs-5201″ target=”blank” background=”#8cf5e7″ size=”6″]Irregular verbs – crossword[/su_button] [su_button url=”https://engames.eu/games/Wordsearch/codecanyon-2708856-word-search-game/?puzzle=irregular-verbs-5201b” target=”blank” background=”#8cf5e7″ size=”6″]Irregular verbs – Wordsearch[/su_button]You can practise irregular verbs in the following app. Choose the set or sets of irregular verbs, you want to practise and then choose how you want to practise them:
[su_button url=”https://grammarlane.com/irrverbs/irrverbsen.html” target=”blank” background=”#f08cf5″ size=”6″]Irregular verbs – Revision[/su_button]The next games concentrate on the irregular verbs presented in the second video. Once again there are four different activities to help you remember all the irregular verbs. The first one is a simple HTML5 quiz:
[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs/Irregular verbs 2 _make them fall (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f08cf5″ size=”6″]Irregular verbs – Quiz no. 2[/su_button]Then there are a crossword and a wordsearch. Remember to write both the past tense and the past participle:
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The basic explanation of the usage of the phrase THERE IS / THERE ARE is easy to understand and practice. My students caught on very quickly and then used the phrase without any mistakes. However, you might need to teach the plural first to allow the students use these without any mistakes.
In this post there is a clear mind map which even 9 years old managed to understand, a worksheet and two games to practice the grammar.
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There is / There are – mind map
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Ask the students to have a look at the following mind map and explain the following points:
- It is used to describe a scenery or picture.
- THERE IS A + one thing
- THERE ARE + more than one thing.
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There is / There are – games and activities
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The first activity is a simple spot the difference activity. Print out the following worksheets (black and white copy will be just fine as the colours do not play any role there) and give the worksheet A to one student and the worksheet B to the other one. Students work in pairs and they must keep their worksheets secret and not show them to each other. Each student describes his rooms and they try to find all the differences.
The next two activities are interactive quizzes and games. Both of them are in HTML 5 and both of them will work on any mobile device.
In the first quiz you should read the description and click on the correct picture. If you pass the test you can play the game Angry Finches.
[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/common_mistakes/There is_hotspot (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#771f9b” size=”6″]There is / There are – Angry Finches[/su_button]
In the second game you should write the missing words into the sentences to describe the picture on the left. If you pass this test you will be given a chance to play the game called Make them Fall.
Enjoy.
[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/common_mistakes/There is_write (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#771f9b” size=”6″]There is / There are – Write[/su_button]
Teaching irregular verbs is really difficult. I have tried many different methods and I still feel that I have not succeeded. You can see several of my previous attempts at this site. For example there is a post on irregular verbs using associative method or a post with a rap with irregular verbs or a post with remembering tables.
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In this post I will try to teach the irregular verbs in context. I do not want my students to spend more time doing what we have already done. I want them to do something new with the irregular verbs which we have already dealt with.
In this post there are several quizzes, a mind map, four mnemonics a worksheet and a comic. I hope the results will justify the time spend on these.
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Irregular verbs – introduction
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Start with a pre-test. Ask your students to write the past tense and past participles of the following verbs:
go, buy, meet, feel, speak, say, come, find, lose, put, steal, know, make, think, give
The aim of such an activity is to show the gap and suggest that by the end of the lesson they will know all the past tenses.
You can try the quiz on your mobile phones here:
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Irregular verbs – Worksheet
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You can download all the activities for the lesson here. It is a worksheet with all the activities to teach the irregular verbs:
Stolen wallet_original story_past simple
You can find the explanation of the Grammar UP activity here:
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Irregular verbs – Additional materials
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Of course, you could just use the worksheet as is. However, here are several improvements which you might find useful.
The first one is a mind map. It contains all the verbs in the past tense. I think that the best place to introduce the mind map is after the activity 2 (the reading). Moreover, there are the four mnemonics which should help the pupils remember the irregular verbs. Ask the students to memorize the four lines. Thus the students should learn all the irregular verbs.
If your students have smartphones and your school is pretty hi-tec, you could use the following quizzes.
The first quiz is the Reading comprehension. Students can read the text online and then answer the multiple choice questions. If they get more than 70% of answers correct, they can play the game Make them fall:
[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/grammar/irregular verbs/Reading comprehension – Make them fall (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#771f9b” size=”6″]Irregular verbs – Reading[/su_button]
In the second quiz students have to complete the text with the past tense of the verbs in brackets. If they get more than 70% of answers correct, they can play the game Tic Tac Toe.
[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/grammar/irregular verbs/Irregular verbs – text tic tac toe (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#771f9b” size=”6″]Irregular verbs – Past tense[/su_button]
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In the third quiz students have to put the words into the correct order. Once again, if they pass the quiz they will get a chance to play the game Tower defence.
[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/grammar/irregular verbs/Irregular verbs word order_tower (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#771f9b” size=”6″]Irregular verbs – Tower Defence[/su_button]
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Irregular verbs – The end
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If you teach the above lesson, you must not miss the last step. The post test. Once again ask your students to write the past tense and past participles of the irregular verbs above or they could try the following interactive quiz.
[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/grammar/irregular verbs/Irregular verbs pre test (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#771f9b” size=”6″]Irregular verbs – post-test[/su_button]
I hope that the results now are much better than they were at the beginning of the lesson.
Plurals are quite easy to understand. In English 1 is a singular and more than 1 is plural. To put it easy you add -s to the end of a singular form to create the plural. However, it is not always that easy, as there are several exceptions.
In this post I would like to present this simple grammar in a mind map, two mnemonics and two games.
I hope you will find this post useful.
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Plurals – mind map
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The following mind map shows the way a student should think when they try to form a plural. First they have to decide whether the plural is regular or not.
To remember the irregular plural here is a simple and short story to help.
Three men and women have six children. It is a lot of people.
Then the students should decide whether they need to add -es. -es is added if the singular ends with x, s, z or h (this rule is simplified. The singular must not end with -ath, but there are no words at elementary level with this ending.) To remember the letters here is a simple mnemonic:
haz six (do not worry if your students change it to haz sex. In fact, they will remember this much better).
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Plurals – mind map
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There are two simple games to practise the plurals. Both of them will play on any mobile device you can think of, so you or your students can practice anywhere they go.
The first one is called reaction and you should type the singular form of the noun and then click on the frog as soon as it appears.
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The second game is a quizz. Type the plurals and if you pass the test you will get a chance to play a car race. The aim of the game is to get to the end.
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Prepositions are one of the favourite test items. They appear at tests like FCE or CAE and if you know them then you can get a lot of points. Moreover, if you use the prepositions correctly, people find it easier to understand you.
The aim of this post is to teach several high-frequency phrases starting with the preposition IN. There are two quizzes with games a mind map and a mnemonic to help you remember all the phrases.
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Preposition IN – mind map
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The following mind map shows all the phrases that I would like to teach. On the right side there are the key words organised into simple logical lines which should make them easier to remember.
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Some might find the lines on the right side difficult to understand. It should work as a mnemonic. It is much easier to remember 4 sentences than to remember 20 separate phrases. You should read the lines and imagine the picture. For example:
Common general like touch bed danger
Imagine a normal soldier who likes touching bed in danger.
In the same way try to remember the other three sentences. The sentence after the slash creates the image you should remember.
debt my opinion fact doubt other words / The debt in my opinion is a fact. Doubt other words.
prison time vain any case advance / Time in prison is spend in vain, but it passes in any case.
touch the south the end the sky / Touch the south end of the sky.
Anyway, once you remember these lines, do not forget that there is IN in front of them 🙂
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Preposition IN – games and quizzes
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I have prepared two HTML5 quizzes to practice the grammar. In the first quiz you should drag the correct word into the correct gap. This game will work on any mobile device too, so you can practice anywhere you go.
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The second game is a simple crossword. Complete the crossword with the phrases with the preposition IN. Again the game is in HTML5 and will work on any mobile device or desktop.
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Question formation in general causes problems. Students get easily confused and they feel that they are not able to form the questions. But in fact, it is very simple. If you follow the steps below you can teach the questions in the past tense in no time. The lesson is based on the principles of Visible Learning as described by Hattie.
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Before you start teaching, ask your students to try the following pre-test. Write the questions in the past tense:
What / you / do / yesterday?
Where / you / go / after school?
When / you / get up / this morning?
Where / you / were / at the weekend?
you / watched TV / last night?
Display the correct sentences and ask the students to write down how many questions they formed correctly:
What did you do yesterday?
Where did you go after school?
When did you get up this morning?
Where were you at the weekend?
Did you watch TV last night?
Ask the students to work in pairs and ask and answer the questions in their pairs.
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Questions in the past tense – Video
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You might want to play the following video where the grammar is explained before you explain it yourself.
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Questions in the past tense – mind map
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Display or print out the following mind map and explain the formation of questions to students. At the end of your explanation ask the students to name the sectors. Each student should work on their own and name the categories in a way that suits them.
Now tell the students the tale about the DID train. It might seem silly but that is on purpose. Students remember stories and they remember silly stories best. You might tell the story in students MT and you may ask the students to lie on their desks while you tell the story. But please do not leave the story. It is crucial to the success of the lesson.
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Questions in the past tense – Practice
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Practice makes perfect, however, the practice has to be varied and reasonble. Only drilling will not get you anywhere.
First ask your students to ask and answer the questions in the mind map.
Second, students write their own questions and ask them in pairs.
Third, here is a HTML5 quiz and games for your students. In the first part students should put the words into the correct order. If they pass the quiz they can play a game called Indiara. If your students have smartphones and internet connection you can ask them to play it there.
After the game there is another quiz. This time students should write the questions in past tense. Once again if they pass the test they can play a game. It is called Make them fall and it is really short. Again, each student can play the game on his/her mobile device.
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If you want to play the game on the full screen, click the button:
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Questions in the past tense – End of lesson
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Now, that you are at the end of the lesson, it is time to see what the students have learnt. Ask them to form the following questions in the past tense:
What / your friends / do / yesterday?
Where / your parents / go / on holiday?
When / you / go to bed / last night?
You / were / happy / yesterday?
you / like / this lesson / last night?
Display the following correct answers and ask the students to count their correct answers and compare them to the scores from the beginning of the lesson. By now you and they should see that they have improved a lot. The correct answers:
What did your friends do yesterday?
Where did your parents go on holiday?
When did you go to bed last night?
Were you happy yesterday?
Did you like this lesson?
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Questions in the past tense – Lesson summary
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Here is the summary of the lesson:
- Pre-test
- Discussion
- Grammar – explanation
- Naming the sectors
- Did train story
- Discussion
- Write your own questions
- Discuss
- Online games
- End of lesson test
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Questions in the past tense – Offline resource
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If you do not have an internet connection in your classroom, you can download the following zip file and use it in your classroom. Moreover, you can share the quiz on your website 🙂 (Sorry, the games do not work offline, only the quizzes)
We usually present just one tense to students. However, ever since I was a student I have always wanted to see a more complex picture and get more tenses at the same time. And as we have just finished the whole textbook with one of my elementary students an opportunity presented itself to sum up all the five tenses covered in the textbook. As a result, I created a special timeline which in combination with my explanation helped my student clarify the usage of all the tenses. I hope it will work for you too.
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Five tenses – timeline
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Have a look at the timeline below and read the explanation carefully.
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Five tenses – explanation
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At the top of the mind map there is the blue Present simple tense. It is high above the timeline as the tense is used for things that are time neutral. We use this tense for facts and actions that get repeated regularly.
The pink shape belongs to past simple tense. There are three arrows pointing to different points in the past as the tense is used when we speak about finished events in the past.
The light blue is reserved for BE going to which is used for plans in the future (for elementary students I do not mind saying that it is the future tense 🙂 ).
The orange colour is for present continuous and the arrow points at NOW as the tense is used for speaking about the events happening at the moment of speaking (again, it is very simplified but for elementary students fine).
The yellow colour shows the usage of present perfect. It is used for past actions which are somehow connected with the present moment. Most frequently we use it to speak about experience (you say what you have experienced up to now).
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Five tenses – Form
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If you need to practise the form of the tenses there are great posts at our site which show all the details:
You can find a nice explanation of present simple and continuous on BBC pages.
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Five tenses – Quizzes
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The following quiz is in HTML5. It contains 30 items and you can attempt it anywhere on your mobile phone or desktop. Your task is to put the verbs in the brackets into the correct tense (choose one of the tenses presented here). If you get over 70% of the answers correct, you can play the game Math pop. Enjoy!
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If you want to try the quiz on the full screen click the button below:
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You can find more exercises to practise these five tenses at https://engames.eu/five-tenses-exercises/
I have already published several posts on past simple tense. There are several posts on irregular verbs, a post on regular verbs in past tense and now I would like to explain how to make negative sentences in past simple. It is quite simple – you just add DIDN´T and the infinitive. To help you and your students absorb this concept there are two games and a graphical explanation.
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Past tense negatives – video
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In this short video a man ends up in prison because his grammar is bad. The aim of this video is to introduce the basic forms of negatives in past tense.
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Past tense negatives – mind map
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In this mind map you can see how the past tense negatives are formed. There is the explanation and below there is a mind map depicting three frequently asked questions and their answers.
If you are a teacher it might be a good idea to let the students deduce the rules and complete the table. However, beware that this way of teaching is not suitable for weaker students.
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Past tense negatives – games
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I firmly believe that practice makes perfect. If you practice the things you will understand the things better. That is why I think that students should go through the following games at least twice or three times.
The first game is in HTML5. Your task is to choose the correct form and if you pass the test you will play the game called Tower defence. This game will play on all mobile devices.
If you want to play the game on the full screen, click below:
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The second game will play only on your desktop. It is called a Penalty Shoutout and once you choose the correct option you will get a chance to kick a penalty. Will you score all ten penalties? Good luck.
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This has been my third post on irregular verbs in a short time. In the first two posts I have tried the associative method, and MP3 drills. While the associative method was not that successful the MP3 drills certainly work. However, they presuppose that the students will learn at home and will play the recording twice or three times at least. But in reality students mostly work with each material only once. Therefore we need a material which will teach the irregular verbs in one or two activities.
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In this post I have tried to come up with such activities. There is the colour crossword and Remembering tables. The students should learn 16 irregular verbs here. There is a pre-test and a post test which will test the students’ knowledge before and after the activity. I hope the teaching will be successful this time.
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Irregular verbs – pre-test
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If you are a learner of English please take this pre-test. You will see how many of the 16 irregular verbs you already know. You will be asked to give a name. It does not have to be a real name, but use the same name in the post test, too.
Why do we want your name. We would like to conduct a research and see how effective the method of teaching is. Of course, we will publish the results here.
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Irregular verbs – Learning
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In this part you will find two methods how to learn the irregular verbs. The first one is called remembering tables.
Print out the worksheet. Have a look at the first table and try to remember all the words there. Once you feel that you know them, cover the table and write all the words into the table on the right. Having finished, check your answers and correct them or complete them.
Do the same with all the other tables.
Irregular verbs_remembering tables.pdf
If you teach a class you can use the same worksheet but set time limits for learning the words. I usually go through the tables and ask the students to repeat the words after me and then give them between 20 and 45 seconds to remember the words.
Having finished the remembering tables, it is time to print out the Colour Crossword and complete it. Notice that the colours are quite important as they help highlight the rules behind the changes. Try to deduce the logic behind the colours and form the rules (eg. red means that the word is completely irregular and it has nothing in common with the original verb.)
The colours have their own logic behind them.
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Irregular verbs – post-test
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Have you done all the activities above? So now take the test and see how many irregular verbs you know now. Is it better?
Teaching of past tense always starts with the verbs was and were, and then the regular verbs are introduced. And in the end, the students learn that there are over 200 irregular verbs which they have to learn. I have posted several articles on irregular verbs and on past tense in general. However, this is the first article that deals with regular verbs only.
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In this post I would like to explain all the grammar about regular verbs in a mind map and then there are three games to practise the past tense of regular verbs. I hope you will find the article interesting and useful.
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Regular verbs – Past tense – Mind map
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In this graphical explanation I try to depict the thinking process the students should go through. They should start at the top of the mind map and check, whether the verb fulfills any of the conditions (ends with -e, ends with -ry etc.) If the answer is yes then they have to follow the rules after the condition. If all the answers are NO then they just add the ending -ed.
Then the mind map shows the top ten regular verbs in past tense and then there is the explanation of the pronunciation.
The mind map does not explain only one thing. How do you know that the verb is regular?
There is just one answer to this question. You have to learn all the irregular verbs and then all the verbs that are not irregular are regular. 🙂
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Regular verbs – Past tense – Games
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In this section there are two HTML5 games which will play on every device and one that will play only on desktops.
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The first HTML5 game is called Tower defence. Your task is to write the past tense of all the verbs and if you pass the quiz you will be given a chance to play the game called Tower defense. Once you lose the game, please do not play again, as you will never win the game again. You have to take the test again and only then you will have a chance to win.
To play the game on the full screen please click below:
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In the second HTML5 game you have to put the verbs in the story into the correct form. I hope you will like the stories 🙂
To play the game on the full screen please click below:
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The last game is in FLASH and it will play only on desktops. It is called Hoopshoot and your task is to choose the correct form and then score a basket.
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I have already published a post on Present simple and continuous tense here. However, as my teaching situation changed I realize that I need a slightly different type of materials and a bit more of them. So in this post I add the following materials: a Song, Speaking exercise, graphical explanation of the usage of the tenses, three interactive games and a worksheet. I hope you will find these materials really useful.
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Present simple and continuous tense – visual presentation
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I recycle the mind maps which I used in the previous post, because they proved to be really great even at my new school.
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However, here is another graphical presentation of the two tenses. In the presentation I try to demonstrate the difference between usage of present simple and present continous tense.
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Present simple and continuous tense – Song
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Having presented the tenses, it is time to teach the form. To achieve this Tutortunes have offered the following song:
You can find more songs for teaching English at http://tutortunes.com
In my lessons I play the song and I ask my students to raise their hands when they hear present simple tense. Then I play it again and I ask them to raise their hands when they hear present continuous tense.
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Present simple and continuous tense – Practice
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First, I would like to practise present simple tense with my students. I have prepared the pair cards activity for them. Print out the following worksheet and cut it in the middle (from top down not from side to side). Ask the students to work in pairs. Each student gets 8 completed sentences and 8 sentences with gaps. Students read (they must not write anything) their gapped sentences and complete them with the correct forms of the verb HAVE GOT. Their partner listens and checks or corrects their answers (He/she has the full sentences). Once they finish they can swap their cards and start again. At the end of this activity I ask my students to choose 3 questions they would like to ask me. I answer the questions and then I ask my students to ask and answer the questions in pairs.
All the other activities concentrate on the difference between the two tenses. The first one is a worksheet where the students should fill in the verb in present simple or continuous tense.
The last three activities are interactive. First, there is a HTML5 version of the worksheet above. If you pass the test, you will be able to play the game called Angry Finches.
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To play the quiz on the full screen click on the button below:
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The second interactivity is once again in HTML5 and it will play on any device. In this one you should fill in the gaps and if you pass the quiz you will be able to play the game Tic-Tac-Toe. This game is a bit of a challenge as there is just one way to win it. Can you find it?
Once again, it is better to play the game on the full screen so you can do this by clicking on the button below:
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The last game is in Flash and it works only on desktops. But it is great for interactive whiteboards. It is called on Target and you have to answer each question correctly and then shoot the bad ducks. Do not forget that you can get a bonus by shooting a bottle on the side 🙂
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I have changed jobs and now I teach at elementary school. And even though I think that I am an experienced teacher I have never taught students with actual learning problems. Now I do, and I face real challenges. For example, this week I taught the verb HAVE GOT from the Project 1 textbook, and I failed to teach anything at all. When I asked my students to complete the green table with the correct forms, there was no reaction. And when I asked them to transform the affirmative sentences into negative ones, there was just one student who could do this.
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At that moment, I realised that I have to teach them differently. So I created the following materials to help my students learn to use the verb HAVE GOT in affirmative and negative sentences. I hope I will be more successful this time, and that you will find these materials helpful too.
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HAVE GOT – visual presentation
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First I tried my usual graphic presentation with all the forms in a colourful table. This works great with gifted children. However, it did not work with my weak students:
As I write above, table like this was very good for talented students but not for the pupils with learning problems. They need something else. But what?
When we wrote a test on vocabulary 75% of them were able to learn all the words correctly. So why not teach them the verb and its forms as a vocabulary item. No fine deduction just a crude memory work. I believe that is the way. So I have created the following graphical presentations.
Ask your students to learn the forms by heart. Then ask them to use the phrases and write sentences to the pictures. If this proves too difficult write the five sentences randomly on the board and ask them to match them to the pictures and copy them.
Work in the same way with the negative sentences. In this way the students might comprehend the logic behind the forms or they will just remember the phrases and thus be able to use them.
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HAVE GOT – classroom practise and worksheets
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I usually give only a game or two here, but this time I see it necessary to offer a few activities the students could do in a classroom without the interactive whiteboard. Moreover, from my experience these children are not very good at the computer games and the quickly lose interest in them.
The first activity is called MT Board. I have create the following worksheet. At the top there is a table with the mother tongue sentences (the sentences are in Czech, so you have to change this one if you are not Czech). Below it there is the same table with the English sentences. Cut the English sentences along the lines and leave the mother tongue board intact. Ask the students to work in pairs and give them the Mother Tongue board and the English pieces. Ask them to place the pieces on the
board. Check their answers.
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The second activity is called a pair card. Print out the following worksheet and cut it in the middle (from top down not from side to side). Ask the students to work in pairs. Each student gets 8 completed sentences and 8 sentences with gaps. Students read (they must not write anything) their gapped sentences and complete them with the correct forms of the verb HAVE GOT. Their partner listens and checks or corrects their answers (He/she has the full sentences). Once they finish they can swap their cards and start again.
The last classroom activity is a drill. Once you feel that your students got the hang of the grammar, you can play the following recording. The native speaker will say the subject and the students have to supply the correct form of the verb HAVE GOT in the pause. Each pause is followed by the correct form and another subject.
To download the file, right-click the following link and choose the option SAVE AS…
Have got_mp3 drill
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HAVE GOT – Games
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And finally here are the games for people who like to play them either on the interactive whiteboards, desktops or their mobile devices.
The game is called Basketball. This game is in flash and it will play only on your desktop.
Your task is to choose the correct form and then score a basket.
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As the word WAS is the ninth and WERE the 34th most frequent word in English it is crucial to use them correctly. You simply cannot avoid using these words, and if you make mistakes in these two words, people will think that you cannot speak English. For teachers it is important to teach this piece of grammar correctly and practise it a lot with their students.
In this post, I would love to teach these two words properly. You can find here a mind map to present this grammar, an MP3 drill recording where your students can practise the forms and two games which will test your or your students’ knowledge of the grammar. I hope it will work.
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[/su_heading] [su_spacer]Look at the mind map below and study the usage of the words WAS and WERE. I have tried to present the grammar a bit unusually and put WERE first. Moreover, I list a lot of subjects to give the students a chance to deduce their own rules.
WAS WERE – Drill
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You can download the file by right-clicking on the following link
The verbs WAS and WERE drill – download
Videos
You can practise the grammar using the following Youtube videos. In the first video, read and complete the senteces with WAS or WERE. Try not to make a mistake.
In this video, you should make negative sentences with WAS or WERE.
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If you want to play the game on the full screen click the button below:
[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/grammar/was_were/WAS or WERE_tic_tac (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#92eef5″ size=”6″]WAS WERE – TIC TAC TOE full screen[/su_button]The second game is in Flash and it will play just on your desktop. However, it is suitable for a classroom use, as the questions are short and there comes a short game after each question the students pass. The game is called A car race and it is quite popular with students.
If you want to play the game on the full screen click the button below:
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In my latest post on irregular verbs I tried to teach 33 irregular verbs. In this post, I would like to add other 30 verbs which I hope you will learn through either the associative method or by using the spaced mp3 recording.
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Irregular verbs – associative method
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You can learn the irregular verbs by using the so called associative method. I have already explained the method in the previous post on irregular verbs, but I will do it again here.
Look at the picture. There are the verbs with pictures and under each of the forms, there are two cells. Complete the cells with words in your mother tongue (or any other language you know) which are similar to the English words. For example: RODE – óda, rod RIDDEN – rýt, den. Don´t be afraid to split the words or jumble them. Write each of your associations into the cells and then you will see that it is much easier to remember the words.
You can download all the worksheets for all the 30 irregular verbs in pdf here:
Irregular verbs_part2
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Irregular verbs – Random repeat
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Another very effective method of learning is described in a book by Baddeley on Brain. I call it random repeat because you learn a small number of words and then you are asked to repeat them in a random order. You can try it here.
Listen to the recording and in the pauses try to say the past tense and the past participle of the given word.
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If you want to listen to all the verbs again and again you can use the following recording:
If you want to download the files and listen to them for example in your car you can do this here:
Irregular verbs_part2 Random repeat recording
Irregular verbs_part2 listening mp3
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Irregular verbs – games
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If you think that you know the irregular verbs, you can test your knowledge in the following games. The first one is called Irregular verbs _ Angry farmer. Your task is to drag the irregular verbs into the correct spaces and if you pass the test you will be given a chance to play the game called Angry farmer. The test and the game are in HTML5 so you can test your knowledge anywhere using your mobile phone or tablet.
To have a better experience on a mobile device, we recommend that you play it on a full screen. Click below
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In the second game you should complete the sentences using the correct verb. If you pass this quiz you can play the game called Indiara. Good Luck!!!
Once again if you view this post on a mobile device, use the full screen mode by clicking the button below.
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I have already published several posts on irregular verbs: Past participles – divided according to the pronunciation and Present perfect tense. However, a week ago a student of mine contacted me and asked me if I could create a way for him to learn the irregular verbs. He spends a lot of time driving so he asked me to prepare something to listen to in his car. So I did. In this post there are 33 irregular verbs presented in an associative matrix, in mp3 for listening, in mp3 for learning and two games for practising them.
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Irregular verbs – learning
[/su_heading][su_spacer]Here you can find two ways to learn the irregular verbs. I have tried both and both work. The first one is called associative learning and you should write two words in your mother tongue under each verb. The words should be similar to the English words and at the same time they should emphasize the differences between the forms. For example Drive – Dr, Iveta DROVE – Dr., ovce, DRIVEN – Dři, venku. Create your own associations and you will see that you will know the verbs quickly.
Here is the pdf version of all the irregular verbs:
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[/su_heading][su_spacer]In learning there are only a few methods which work for everyone. One of them is called Random repeat. You are presented with something new and then after a short time you are tested. Then another new thing is presented and you are tested again. This is repeated several times and at the end you know a lot. You can try this method here. You will here three irregular verbs and then you will hear just the infinitive and you have 3 seconds (quite a lot of time actually) to supply the past tense and past participle. After the three seconds you will hear the correct answers and another verb. I hope it will work for you:
If you need just the correct pronunciation of each of the verbs presented above, here is the mp3 with all of the verbs:
You can download the files here:
All the irregular verbs
All the verbs learning mp3
Irregular verbs – games
[/su_heading][su_spacer]Once you believe that you know the irregular verbs, it is time to practise them. Here there are two games for your mobile phones to practise the irregular verbs:
If you want to enjoy the game on the full screen click on the button:
[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs/Irregular_verbs_mobile (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#92eef5″ size=”6″]Irregular verbs – Tower defence[/su_button]In the second game you should fill in the sentences with the correct words. If you pass the test you can play the game called Math pop and practise your maths at the same time.
If you want to play the game on a full screen, click the button below:
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You can find several online exercises at our new site grammarlane.com to practice irregular verbs.