If s/he gets it correct s/he can sit down. Each time the teacher points at a student to say the past tense form. The teacher points at a card – team A says the infinitive form and team B says the past tense form. say each verb in different voices (low, high, loud, quite, monster voice, singing voice, etc.) and students have to reply in the same voice.Next, play some variations of the drill, such as: Teacher: (pointing to another card) swim.Ĭontinue at a fast pace and get faster and faster, making a game of it. Start by pointing at a card and saying the infinitive form of the verb – and get your students shouting out the past tense form, for example: It is important to keep it fast paced and use a variety of methods so the drilling doesn’t get boring. We are going to practice drilling these cards using fun methods. You should now have 16 cards on the board.
read – read: read a book, turning the pagesĪs you elicit / teach each verb, stick the card onto the board and write the forms under the flashcard (e.g.write – wrote: write on the board or a piece of paper.give – gave: hold out hands and give things to students (e.g.You are going to do the action and everyone has to shout out the answer: Start by looking at the first flashcard, but don’t show it to the class. You will now teach 4 more verbs using a combination of actions and flashcards: give – gave, write – wrote, read – read, run – ran. Stick the 12 irregular verb flashcards randomly onto the board. Start by eliciting the gestures and then have everyone do the gestures as they sing along. We learned this song in the last lesson so let’s sing it again as a fun review. The next two students race for 2 new verbs, and so on, until everyone has had a turn. They should then replace the card onto the line again. slept and rode) and the first 2 students race, grab one of those cards in their mouths and race to the finish. Start by shouting out two verbs in the past tense (e.g. The winner will score 1 point for their team. The idea is for those two students to race to the washing line and grab a flashcard, but only using their mouths! They then race on to the other end of the classroom. You will therefore have two students at the front of their teams. Next, place your students into 2 teams and form 2 lines in front of the washing line, with each student standing behind the other. NOTE: You can also use the flashcards past regular verb flashcards from 2 lessons ago (play with friends, paint a picture, walk in the park, watch TV, jump in puddles, play games, kick a ball, dance) Continue with all of the other 11 flashcards.
“wake up – woke up”) and peg it onto the washing line. Elicit the verb and the past tense version (e.g. Take the 12 flashcards from last lesson (wake up, eat, drink, go to school, sing, swim, star jump (we’ll use this for “have fun”), go home (use for “come back home”), ride a bike, do homework, put on, sleep) and hold up the first card. String the rope across the classroom so it is at head height. You’ll need some string or rope (a washing line) and 12 clothes pegs (you can also use large paper clips). In your last class your students learned 12 past tense irregular verbs – let’s start by reviewing these. Review past tense irregular verbs – play “Flashcards washing line”.
In your last class your students learned 12 past tense irregular verbs – in this lesson we will be reviewing these and adding 4 more irregular verbs. This is a great drill song for practicing using the past simple tense with some common irregular verbs.
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