Teaching irregular verbs can be fun. The verbs are easy to use to tell stories and stories are interesting for everyone.
In the following post I am going to tell a story and you can learn the past tense of ten irregular verbs there.
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To achieve this there are a video, a worksheet, a comic and an interactive quiz. I hope you will find them interesting.
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Scream story – video
[/su_heading][su_spacer] Watch the following story. The story is easy to follow as the colour follows the voice.If you prefer telling the story yourself, you can use the following comic:
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Scream story – worksheet
[/su_heading][su_spacer] Once you introduce the story, it is time to deal with the language. First, translate the words in the table and then ask the students to read the story again and answer the comprehension questions. Of, course you can play the video instead.Then ask the students to complete the text and in the end ask them to solve the crossword. Once they solve the crossword using the past tense ask them to work in pairs and retell the story using the comic.
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Irregular verbs – interactive quiz
[/su_heading][su_spacer] When you finish the worksheet, you can ask the students to do the following interactive quiz. As the quiz is in HTML5 they could try it out on their mobiles or you could do it on an interactive whiteboard.If you want to play the quiz on the full screen, click the button below.
[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/irregular_verbs/scream/Scream irregular verbs (Web)/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f08cf5″ size=”6″]IRREGULAR VERBS SCREAM STORY[/su_button]
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Irregular verbs – share
[/su_heading][su_spacer]If you like the quiz above and you would like to share it on your blog or use it in a classroom without an internet connection, you can do this. You can download all the files here and upload them to your site just unpack the files and use them in the classroom:
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Irregular verbs – more resources
[/su_heading][su_spacer] If you would like to practise a bit more, here are several resources you might like.Irregular verbs in context
Teach 9 irregular verbs in context
Several videos:
Other sites:
British council site
Learn English for teenagers