LESSON 7: (04-05-21) PAST OF IRREGULAR VERBS

 

Today we're going to continue working with the Simple Past, but this time we're going to concentrate on the past form of Irregular verbs.

1. First, let's read this text about the island of Atlantis. What do you know about it? Use a dictionary to help you understand the text:

In this text there are examples of verbs in the past. Some end in -ed, that means that they are REGULAR VERBS, but some of them do not follow this rule and they are called IRREGULAR VERBS. 

Read the information in this box:

As you can see the auxiliary DID is used in negative and interrogative sentences as well as in short answers, but what happens with the affirmative form? The verb in the affirmative form doesn't take the -ed ending, it changes its form. 

THREE things may happen to the verbs:

•  They stay the same in the infinitive or in the past: 

     cut (cortar)     -    cut (corté, cortamos, cortaron...)

• They change one letter:

     come (venir)   -   came  (vine, vino, vinimos...)

• They change completely:

    buy (comprar) -   bought (compré, compró, compramos...)

2- Copy four irregular verbs from the text:

3- Match the verbs in the infinitive with their past forms. Then copy the meaning of each verb: 

4- Read the text again and answer these questions:

THIS IS THE END OF TODAY'S LESSON!