We used at least four irregular verbs today in class during our silly "before and after" exercise with the two red balls. I didn't plan to have a lesson on irregular verbs, but by chance I gave directions to throw a ball, shake your head, bend your knees, and stand on one leg. Each of the verbs in bold type has an irregular past tense form: threw, shook, bent, stood. Of course, I also used regular verbs that form the past tense by adding -ed or just -d: jump-jumped, wave-waved, pat-patted (notice the final t of pat is doubled before adding -ed--do you know why?).
My Suggestions: A few weeks ago we studied rules for spelling changes when adding -ed to make the base form of regular verbs past tense. Click on the link to review a nice summary of these rules (but I wish I could remove the annoying advertisements).
Spelling Rules for Adding -ed to Regular Verbs
Then click on the link below to go to "12 Lists to Help You Learn Common Irregular Verbs." These lists group irregular verbs that follow similar patterns when they change from present to past tense (for example, throw-threw, grow-grew, know-knew). Find each irregular verb we used in class today (those in bold type above) on one of the lists. Try to memorize all the verbs on at least one of the 12 lists this week. Can you memorize a list every week? You might as well memorize all three forms of the verbs, even though we have not studied the third part (past participle) yet.
12 Lists to Help You Learn Irregular Verbs
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