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:
[su_spacer][su_heading]Irregular verbs – Listen and learn
[/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:
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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.