Irregular Verbs

Regular verbs

Many English verbs are regular, which means that they form their different tenses according to an established pattern. The regular verbs are making by affixation: the base form of the verb + ed.

Such verbs work like this:

 Irregular verbs

There are many irregular verbs that don’t follow the normal rules.

These verbs are allomorphic because they don’t follow the regular pattern of the base form of the verb + ed.

Make groups of five persons. Then transcribe the following verbs and write their past simple and past participle tense. Identify the changes that they have.  

We are using an inductive methodology. That’s because we give a few verbs as an example and the class has to look at them and find the similarities. Once they find the similarities, they can do the categories that sum up the similarities creating a pattern. To finish the class, the teacher gives her own categories and the verbs that follow it.

• Timing

To do this activity, our group were used 40 minutes. In the first place, we use ten minutes to explain the introduction of the verbs and explain the activity. Later, we give 15 or 20 minutes (it depends on the class) to the class to do the activity. At the end, we spend 10 or 15 minutes, to sum up the different opinions of the groups, to explain our categories, and speak about the conclusions in the whole class.

We tried to teach the irregular verbs in an easy way because we usually learn these in a memoiristic way.

These are the different categories that we are following to divide the types of irregulars verbs.

I. Verbs with same forms. (Base= Past T. = Past Participle).

II. Verbs with diferent base form but same Past tense and Past Pariciple:

III. Verbs with different base form, past simple form, and past participle form:

IV. Verbs withVowel Change: Verbs with Identical Present and Past Participle:

V. Regular Verbs: (-ed).

VI. Miscellaneous: Verbs with two forms. Regular and Irregular forms.

BIOGRAPHY:

Oxford University Press. (2017). Taken from https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/grammar/regular-and-irregular-verbs

ESLDesk. (2017). Taken from http://www.esldesk.com/vocabulary/irregular-verbs

This work has been made by:

-Yasmine Huber 

-Vanessa López Lemasurier 

-Diana López Maldonado 

-Daniel Parrales García 

-Irene Vela del Valle