Irregular verbs – snowball method
After teaching for fifteen years, it seems that it does not matter how much and well the teacher teaches, it is the student who must learn. I have already published many methods of teaching irregular verbs. There are posts on teaching irregular verbs with a rap song, there are posts with many games and stories where the irregular verbs are used in context. And the result? My students do not know the irregular verbs! If the students do not learn the verbs, they do not know them.
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This of course does not mean that we should stop making our lessons as interesting as possible. No! It means that we should give students a chance to learn the verbs in an effective way themselves. That was why I started to learn another foreign language. And I found out that the best method to learn new vocabulary was the one which I call SNOWBALL.
Snowball method
This means that each word gets repeated at least six times and if the student does not know it, it gets repeated more frequently.
And I used this method to teach the irregular verbs. There are 100 most frequent irregular verbs in English and if you do one snowball every day, each irregular verb will get repeated at least 6 times.
As the answers are evaluated by a computer, DO NOT USE CAPITAL letters and divide the words with a comma (no pause after the comma).
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What are the vocabulary lists for each snowball game?
The whole game is based on the following list of irregular verbs:
1. beat beat beaten
2. become became become
3. begin began begun
4. bend bent bent
5. bet bet bet
6. bite bit bitten
7. bleed bled bled
8. blow blew blown
9 break broke broken
10. bring brought brought
11. build built built
12. buy bought bought
13. catch caught caught
14. choose chose chosen
15. come came come
16. cost cost cost
17. cut cut cut
18. dig dug dug
19. do did done
20. draw drew drawn
21. drink drank drunk
22. drive drove driven
23. eat ate eaten
24. fall fell fallen
25. feed fed fed
26. feel felt felt
27. fight fought fought
28. find found found
29. fly flew flown
30. forget forgot forgotten
31. forgive forgave forgiven
32 freeze froze frozen
33 get got gotten
34 give gave given
35 go went gone
36 hang (up) hung hung
37 have had had
38 hear heard heard
39. hide hid hidden
40. hit hit hit
41. hold held held
42. hurt hurt hurt
43. keep kept kept
44. know knew known
45. lay laid laid
46. lead led led
47. leave left left
48. lend lent lent
49. let let let
50. lie (down) lay lain
51. light lit lit
52. lose lost lost
53. make made made
54. mean meant meant
55. meet met met
56. pay paid paid
57. put put put
58. quit quit quit
59. read read read
60. ride rode ridden
61. ring rang rung
62. rise rose risen
63. run ran run
64. say said said
65. see saw seen
66. sell sold sold
67. send sent sent
68. set set set
69. shake shook shaken
70 shine shone shone
71. shoot shot shot
72. shrink shrank shrunk
73. shut shut shut
74. sing sang sung
75. sink sank sunk
76. sit sat sat
77. sleep slept slept
78. slide slid slid
79. speak spoke spoken
80. spend spent spent
81 spin spun spun
82. stand stood stood
83. steal stole stolen
84. stick stuck stuck
85. sting stung stung
86. swear swore sworn
87. sweep swept swept
88. swim swam swum
89. take took taken
90. teach taught taught
91. tear tore torn
92. tell told told
93. think thought thought
94. throw threw thrown
95. understand understood understood
96. wake woke woken
97. wear wore worn
98. win won won
99 wind wound wound
100. write wrote written