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Regular and Irregular Verbs
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“Describe what you can see in the picture”
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Listen to the story then answer the GIST question below.
“Why does the child never needed to write again?”
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Fill in the blanks as you listen to the story once.
This is a sweet story about a child. He _____ write with his left hand so
he ________ every day since last Christmas eve. Some day he _______
a strange pencil. It was small and has written his name, it was on the
floor so child ______ it up. he had a weird feeling he felt cold his hands
but however he _____ to his next class, then he took the pencil to
write and began writing. he found out he was writing with left hand,
he got happy and continued writing. Pencil began writing and child
never ________ to write again!
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Listen to the story for the last time then answer the following
questions below.
Main Idea Questions:
• What is the story all about?
Detailed Questions:
• When did the child started practicing to write using
the left hand?
• What does he found?
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Concept Check:
• strange
• weird feeling
• Christmas eve
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Highlighting:
Verbs are subdivided into two groups, regular verbs and irregular verbs, on the
basis of how their past tense and past participles are formed. See below for tips
on how to distinguish between them.
Regular Verbs
Most verbs are regular verbs. Regular verbs are those whose past tense and past
participles are formed by adding a -d or an -ed to the end of the verb.
"To roll" is a good example of a regular verb:
•roll, rolled, rolled
Sometimes the last consonant must be doubled before adding the -ed ending.
For example:
•plan, planned, planned
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Irregular Verbs
There is no formula to predict how an irregular verb will form its past-tense and
past-participle forms. There are over 250 irregular verbs in English. Although
they do not follow a formula, there are some fairly common irregular forms.
Some of these forms are:
•break, broke, broken
•cut, cut, cut
•run, ran, run
•meet, met, met
•come, came, come
•repay, repaid, repaid
•swim, swam, swum
•be was/were been
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CONTROLLED ACTIVITY: CHOOSE THE CORRECT OPTION:
1. Last summer we went to our grandfather’s • feel
house.
• feeled
• go
• felt
• went
• gone
6. The police _______ him after months of
2. We ______ ourselves at the fair.
searching.
• enjoy
• catch
• enjoyed
• catched
• enjoys
• caught
3. Did the teacher _______ at you?
7. The cat ______ after the mouse.
• shout
• ranned
• shouted
• ran
4. Mr. Sharma ______ a lot of money on his • runned
son’s wedding.
8. He was ________ to see me.
• spend
• surprised
• spent
• surprise
5. I _______sad when my grandmother
• surprisingly
passed away.
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Semi – Controlled Activity: All of the verbs below are in the present tense. Some of
them are regular verbs, and some are irregular verbs. Write the correct past tense
form of each verb.
1. bring - brought
2. are
3. call
4. visit
5. sell
6. grow
7. swim
8. sit
9. create
10. wish
11. sleep
12. watch
13. stretch
14. run
15. come
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