Yesterday's Actions: Regular and Irregular Verbs

Yesterday's Actions: Regular and Irregular Verbs

Learning Objective

Understand how to use regular and irregular verbs to describe past actions

What do you already know about using regular and irregular verbs to describe past actions?

Regular Verbs

Regular verbs follow a consistent pattern for past tense forms by adding -ed to the base form.

Irregular Verbs

Irregular verbs do not follow the standard -ed pattern for past tense forms and must be memorized individually.

Regular vs Irregular Verbs

Discuss the differences between regular and irregular verbs in terms of forming the past tense.

Using Regular Verbs

Practice forming past tense sentences using regular verbs to describe yesterday's activities.

Using Irregular Verbs

Practice forming past tense sentences using irregular verbs to describe yesterday's activities.

Interactive Exercise

Interactive activity to match regular and irregular verbs with their past tense forms.

Review and Recap

Summarize the key points about using regular and irregular verbs to describe past actions.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.