Irregular verbs ~19 min of the core left

Review 5 (lessons 25–29)

Start the lesson Core 17–19 min · steps: 4 · optional: +1

Declared core time. Two of the core blocks carry no figure at all, so the real lesson is longer than this sum.

Irregular verbs

4 min

Ten more forms, to add to the twenty from lesson 29:

eat → ate drink → drank write → wrote read → read /red/ run → ran
stand → stood sit → sat sleep → slept speak → spoke meet → met

In the past, read is spelt the same as in the present, but it is pronounced differently: /riːd/ → /red/.

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Tricky point

3 min

one and ones take the place of a noun you have already named, so you do not say it twice.

— Which bag? — The red one. one = the bag: one thing
— Which books? — The new ones. ones = the books: two or more things
I don't like this shirt. I want a blue one. a blue one = a blue shirt

In many languages you simply leave the noun out and keep only the adjective. In English, one or ones must stand in its place.

Exercises on lessons 25–29

10–12 min

1. Mixed gap fill.

  1. I (work) at home today
  2. I (work) in an office every day
  3. Yesterday I (walk) in the park
  4. Last summer we (go) to Italy
  5. It (rain) now
Show the answers
am working, work, walked, went, is raining.

2. Error correction.

  1. I reading now.
  2. Is cold today.
  3. You was at home.
  4. Yesterday I work at home.
  5. I goed to Italy.
  6. I went then home.
Show the answers
I am reading now; It's cold today. / Today it's cold; You were at home; Yesterday I worked at home; I went to Italy; Then I went home. / I then went home. / I went home then.

3. Past forms.

Write the past form: go, see, buy, eat, write, sleep

Show the answers
went, saw, bought, ate, wrote, slept.

4. Matching.

  1. watched
  2. stopped
  3. lived
  4. opened
  5. wanted
  6. started
Show the answers
/t/ — watched, stopped; /d/ — lived, opened; /ɪd/ — wanted, started.
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Summary

Covered

  • lessons 25–29 in full
  • thirty irregular verbs

Next — lesson 31: dates and birthdays.

End of the core

The lesson counts as done once the exercises are done. Everything after this is optional.

Lesson 31

optional

Mini production

Talk aloud and then write down eight sentences: what you are doing now, what the weather is like, where you were yesterday, what you did at the weekend and where you went last summer.

Checklist before lesson 31:

  • does the continuous form have am, is or are?
  • does a sentence about the weather have the subject it?
  • is it were with you, we, they in the past?
  • is -ed on regular verbs the same for all persons?
  • do irregular verbs have no -ed at all?
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Dictationbased on this lesson Write down what you hear. The check shows every word that differs, and how. Write the dictation Reading and listeningA1–C1 Texts at every level with comprehension questions; the transcript opens after you answer. Try it

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