V2a - Unit 1: Past Simple Irregular and Lava Song - 8-10-2024

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Welcome to English

V2a!

First!

• Put phone in the phone bag!
• Take your Stepping Stones book out
• Take your notebook out
• Put your pen on your table

Today's Lesson

- Mr. Lemoncello: 10 minutes

- Wordlist speaking test

- Background: Past simple irregular

- Lava song: Past Simple irregular

- Lava Song: assignments

- Homework: Past simple irregular (p. 56/57)

Goal: I know how to make the past simple (irregular and regular forms)

Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Wordlist Speaking Test

Irregular Verbs

• Irregular verbs are like sloths
  

• Why are they like sloths?

Irregular Verbs

• Why do these sloth verbs exist? Why can't they be regular?
  

• Which irregular verb is the King of Sloths?

Old English

Middle English

Early Modern English

Modern English

To Say

To be

Present tense:                          Past (present/past perfect) tense:

am                                                                            was

is                                                                              were

are                                             (have/has/had) been

Irregular Verbs

The King of Sloths:

Regular/Irregular Verbs

Examples

Base form                 Past Simple            Past Participle

 

Irregular Verbs

Another Example:

I sing with unicorns

(sing: base/present simple)

I sang with unicorns

(sang: past simple)

I have sung with unicorns  

(sung: past participle in the present perfect)

Irregular Verbs: Assignment 1  (10/20 minutes)

• Work in pairs to identify ALL the verbs in the song (use the hand-out write your name on the hand-out; you're not allowed to use your books or google!)
  
  
• There are over 50 irregular verbs in the song; also mind the regular verbs
  
  
• There are 17 DIFFERENT types of verbs in total, that means that of the 50+ verbs some verbs appear more than once, identify (underline) them all;
  Write down if they're base forms (infinitives) or past simple forms
  
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• The goal of the assignment is to recognise and identify the irregular verbs (base form/past simple) in an English song lyric!
  
  
• Too easy? Done super fast? (See next slide)
  

Irregular Verbs: Assignment 2  (10 minutes)

If you have identified all of the verbs, and named them, then, to test yourself, change them!

Do this for all of the 17 irregular verbs in the text (you can skip doubles!)

Original text:

There was a volcano  = past simple irregular

For example:

There is a volcano = to be (base form/present simple)

There was a volcano = Past Simple irregular

Irregular Verbs: Assignment answers

From top to bottom irregular verb forms:

First verse

1. was

2. sat

3. had

4. came

5. sang

Chorus

1. have (present tense)

2. come (present tense

3. are (present tense)

4. am (present tense)

5. send (present tense) 

Second verse

1. was

2. did know (past simple question)

3. was

4. heard

5. grew, grew

6. meant

Bridge

1. was

2. meet (present tense)

3. sang

Chorus 

Third verse

1. stood

2. tried

3. know

4. was

5. meant 

Chorus

Fourth verse

1. were

2. meet (present tense)

3. grew, grew

4. are (present tense)

5. go (present tense

6. sing 

Second chorus

1. have (present tense)

2. come (present tense

3. grow, grow (present tense) 

Homework for Wednesday

Unit 1: Holiday Times

Page 56, 57, 58 and 59

assignments 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32

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