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
[/su_heading] Snowball is a simple piece of software which asks me to translate a word. If I get the word right, it disappears, if not, it gets repeated once or twice after a while. The following day, the programme asks me to translate the words from the previous day and adds 20 more words to learn. It goes on like this till day 5 when I have to translate 100 words. On day 6, the software offers the same 100 words again. But on day 7, I have to translate just 80 words as the oldest 20 disappear. In this way, the words disappear and on the tenth day I translate just 20 words.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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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs_snowball/snowball1/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f56b68″ size=”6″]Snowball 1[/su_button]
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs_snowball/snowball2/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f56b68″ size=”6″]Snowball 2[/su_button]
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs_snowball/snowball3/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f56b68″ size=”6″]Snowball 3[/su_button]
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs_snowball/snowball4/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f56b68″ size=”6″]Snowball 4[/su_button]
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs_snowball/snowball5/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f56b68″ size=”6″]Snowball 5[/su_button]
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs_snowball/snowball5/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f56b68″ size=”6″]Snowball 6[/su_button]
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs_snowball/snowball6/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f56b68″ size=”6″]Snowball 7[/su_button]
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs_snowball/snowball7/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f56b68″ size=”6″]Snowball 8[/su_button]
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs_snowball/snowball8/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f56b68″ size=”6″]Snowball 9[/su_button]
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs_snowball/snowball9/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f56b68″ size=”6″]Snowball 10[/su_button]
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