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Common irregular verbs

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Common irregular verbs

An AR classroom game for Grade 5. Learners can aim with their hands at the camera or play by tapping the screen.

This set has 4 rounds in an interactive matching activity.

Curriculum indicatorต 1.2 ป.5/1

A look before you play

Sample questions

A few real prompts from the game to help you choose an activity for your class.

  1. Match each present verb to its past form.

    • go
    • eat
    • see
    • take
    Read the explanation

    Irregular verbs have to be learnt in pairs, because adding "ed" will not get you there.

  2. Match each present verb to its past form.

    • run
    • come
    • give
    • write
    Read the explanation

    This group changes the vowel in the middle; learning them as a group beats one at a time.

  3. Match each word to its meaning.

    • yesterday
    • last week
    • two days ago
    • last year
    Read the explanation

    A past-time word tells you the sentence needs the past form.

Before you play

Game teaching guide

What children will practise

Practise pairing common verbs with their past forms (go went, eat ate, run ran, write wrote), past-time words, and past question-answer pairs, so pupils can ask and tell about the past (ต 1.2 ป.5/1).

What's in the worksheet

4 matching questions, 4 pairs each - Match go to went and take to took - Match come to came and give to gave - Match two days ago to สองวันก่อน - Match What did you see? to I saw a bird. and Who came here? to My friend came.

How to use it in class

Use as a past-forms warm-up, 4-5 minutes, with teams competing. - Before item 2, tell pupils this group changes the middle vowel and let them guess before tapping - After item 4, pairs ask each other the same questions and answer about their own lives Play it linked to a class and the results go into the mark book. - Use Thai mode: English mode repeats both sides in some questions, so children can match without reading the meaning

Common sticking points

- Item 2: swapping came and gave, which look alike; read come came, give gave aloud - Item 1: pairing take with ate or eat with took if the pairs were never chanted - Item 4: Who came here? has no did, which confuses pupils who learned that past questions need did; explain that when Who is the doer, no did is used