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This game is for practicing past tense
English verbs. It is intended to be used by
ESL (English as a second language)
students, to review past participles. The
aim of this game is not to explain or
communicate the concept of past tense,
rather it is just to practice using past tense.
The concept of past tense is difficult to
illustrate visually and really is better
explained by a teacher in a classroom. So,
this game is really just intended as a tool to
practice verbs and sentences in past tense.
The language used is quite basic, but I
think it covers almost all of the basic past
tense verb forms (regular and irregular) and
a few more difficult ones.

There are 3 different tasks in the game. In

the first task, you simply have to drag the
verbs to match present to past tense forms.
The second task requires you to choose the
correct word to complete the sentence.
Finally, for the third task you have to
reorder the phrase. This sequence repeats
with different sets of content.

There is also a review screen in which you

can see each verb with its past-participle
and an image to convey the meaning.

The game uses a timer to give an element

of challenge to the game. The timer can be
turned of by clicking on the settings button
in game.

There are 22 sets of content. Each set has

8 verbs, with a matching image and
sentence to convey meaning and context.
This gives a total of 176 items. These were
selected from lists of basic verbs in English
with a slight bias towards choosing irregular
past tense forms; although, some verbs
that were hard to represent visually were
excluded. For example, it is quite difficult to
draw an image to show the meaning of the
verb 'decide'. I hope that almost all the
basic verbs are covered here and that by
mastering this game, students will have a
comprehensive mastery of all the basic
past tense forms.

Comments

Excellent game!
- July

¡This is so exciting!
- Nora Nuñez

Good morning I love your game.

- Mini yu

so good
- Anon

It's sooo boring ugh!

- Sumayyah

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