Irregular verbs ~19 min of the core left

Review 3 (lessons 13–17)

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 new ones, with three forms:

sing — sang — sung (make music with your voice) swim — swam — swum (move through water) ring — rang — rung (phone; make a bell sound)
fly — flew — flown (move through the air) throw — threw — thrown (send through the air) show — showed — shown (let someone see)
hear — heard — heard (take in sounds) feed — fed — fed (give food to) hide — hid — hidden (put where nobody can see)
shut — shut — shut (close)
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Tricky point

3 min

still and any more — two ways to say that something continues or has stopped.

I still work there. it continues: I work there now, as before
I don't work there any more. it has stopped: I worked there, but not now

still goes before the main verb and after be: He is still here, He still works here, and in a negative before don't / haven't: I still don't have my ticket (like I still haven't finished in lesson 3). any more goes at the very end, and only with a negative. French ne … plus, Spanish ya no and German nicht mehr say this in one short phrase; in English it is not … any more.

Compare it with yet from lesson 3: yet is about something that is not done so far (I haven't finished yet); any more is about something that has stopped for good.

Exercises on lessons 13–17

10–12 min

1. Mixed gap fill.

  1. I have work today
  2. I don't have time
  3. Is there in the office?
  4. She speaks English
  5. I'm from Netherlands
  6. you help me, please?
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a lot of; much / a lot of; anybody; well; the; Could.

2. Error correction.

  1. I have much work.
  2. I didn't see nobody.
  3. He speaks English good.
  4. I go to home at six.
  5. Could you to help me?
  6. Everybody are here.
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I have a lot of work.; I didn't see anybody. / I didn't see anyone. / I saw nobody. / I saw no one.; He speaks English well. / He speaks good English.; I go home at six.; Could you help me?; Everybody is here.

3. Make the adverb.

  1. slow →
  2. careful →
  3. good →
  4. fast →
  5. happy →
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slowly, carefully, well, fast, happily.

4. Matching.

  1. Give me the key.
  2. Can I have the key?
  3. Could I have the key, please?
Show the answers
`Give me the key.` — impolite; `Can I have the key?` — normal; `Could I have the key, please?` — polite.
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Summary

Covered

  • lessons 13–17 in full
  • seventy irregular verbs in the course so far

Next — lesson 19: the passive in set phrases.

End of the core

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

Lesson 55

optional

Mini production

Talk aloud and then write down eight sentences: how much work and free time you have, who called you today, how your colleague works, where you are going and what you will ask for at the hotel.

Checklist before lesson 19:

  • is it a lot of in a statement, and much / many in a question and a negative?
  • only one negative per sentence?
  • is there an adverb, not an adjective, with the verb?
  • is it go home without a preposition, and countries without an article, except the plural ones and those with States / Kingdom?
  • is there no to after modal verbs?
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