Irregular Verbs Lesson Plan Esl. Activities for past tense of irregular verbs in esl as an esl teacher you need lots of activities for teaching the past tense of irregular verbs. Divide the class into two teams for the irregular verbs relay race.
Wake up woke up eat ate drink drank go went sing sang swim swam have had come came ride rode do did put put. This lesson plan uses an informational text to review verbs and verb tense then teach about irregular verbs. Label the right side of the t chart irregular list examples on the chart such as write wrote bite bit and run ran.
The problem for english language learners is the many many changes that occur when forming the past tense of irregular verbs.
Irregular verbs however are not formed so simply and have no consistent form. Esl spelling game the spelling of irregular verbs in english can be a bit tricky for beginners. As students identify verbs write them on the board in their simple past form in two columns one for regular and one for irregular but do not title the columns. In this lesson students practice using the past simple tense with 16 common irregular verbs this lesson follows the last lesson plan on past irregular verbs.
