IRREGULAR VERBS

SIMPLE PAST
 WHAT’S AN IRREGULAR VERB?

▹ It’s a verb that doesn’t follow the regular pattern (-

ed).

▹ When we conjugate a verb in past we usually add –d

-ed. In the case of irregular verbs, there’s no specific
rule to conjugate them, so we must memorize them.

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 SOME EXAMPLES

REGULAR IRREGULAR
Begin Began
Play Played
Buy Bought
Watch Watched Even when there isn’t a
Go Went
rule for their
Carry Carried conjugation, some of
Cut Cut them share
Love Loved characteristics, so we
Keep Kept can group them
Cry Cried
 Hey,
Why don’t we use a song to get
familiar with irregular verbs?
Let’s hear: Killing me softly

By
The Fugees and Roberta Flack
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 “
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
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 “
I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a
style
And so I came to see him, to listen for a while
And there he was, this young boy, a stranger to my
eyes

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 “
I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd
I felt he'd found my letters and read each one out
loud
I prayed that he would finish, but he just kept right on

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 “
He sang as if he knew me
In all my dark despair
And then he looked right through me as if I wasn't there
And he just kept on singing
Singing clean and strong
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 There you have some irregular verbs… Now let’s group them

- ught i - a the same

bring brought cost cost
begin began
buy bought hurt hurt
drink drank
catch caught put put
ring rang
fight fought let let
sing Sang
teach taught hit hit
swim swam
think thought cut cut
sit sat
read read
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 There you have some irregular verbs… Now let’s group them

-t Completely
o
build built different
break broke
go went
feel felt speak spoke To be
leave left steal stole Am / is was
keep kept wake woke are were
lose Lost freeze froze
sleep slept forget forgot
spend spent write wrote
 Some other verbs…

make made understand understood hold held

meet met tell told lend lent

pay paid win won light lit

say said find found bite bit

send sent get got choose chose

shoot shot have had fly flew

stand stood hear heard hide hid

tear tore wear 12

wore do did
 Some other verbs…

draw drew rise rose

drive drove see saw

eat ate take took

fall fell sink sank

give gave become became

grow grew run ran

know new bet bet

ride rode 13
shut shut
LET’S PRACTICE
with some exercises
 Conjugate the verb to complete the sentence

a) Nancy ________ (take) her daughter Donna to the park.

b) The park _______ (have) lots of tres.
c) The squirrels _______ (run) up and down the trees.
d) The birds ________ (fly) around, touching the clouds.
e) The squirrels and the birds _______ (to be) good neighbors.
f) Nancy _________ (sit) down on a bench.

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 Conjugate the verb to complete the sentence

g) Donna chased a squirrel, but she never _______ (catch) one.

h) I ________ (read) a book yesterday about the WW2.
i) They _______ (come) home at a quarter past eleven.
j) Julia ________ (write) an excellent essay, she ________ (get) an
A+.
k) The couple _________ (go) to the cinema last night.
l) My sister _______ (tell) me the test was really easy.

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 Conjugate the verb to complete the sentence

m) My friend Julio _______ (bring) his hámster to school.

n) I _____ (find) a book under my bed.
o) He ______ (do) his homework after lunch.
p) We _______ (eat) vegetables for dinner.
q) People ________ (hear) about the storm on he news.
r) I _______ (sleep) very well last night.

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 Conjugate the verb to complete the sentence

s) She ________ (take) a magazine out of her purse.

t) It was so cold that water _____ (freeze).
u) Did you ______ (leave) your coat at the cafe?
v) The waiter _______ (bring) us the menu.
w) I ________ (see) you at the McDonald’s last Friday night.
x) My daughter _______ (choose) the career she wants to study.

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 Are you ready to answer
What about a some questions?
conversation?

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Answer some questions

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DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?

Making
questions
is the best
way to
Go ahead learn
and ask!

Practice, practice and more

practice!

Let’s make
mistakes
together

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 THANKS!

Hope to see you next time!

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