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 new ones, with three forms:

beat — beat — beaten (hit again and again; win against) bite — bit — bitten (cut with your teeth) blow — blew — blown (move air)
draw — drew — drawn (make a picture) drive — drove — driven (control a car) forgive — forgave — forgiven (stop being angry with)
freeze — froze — frozen (become ice; be very cold) ride — rode — ridden (go on a horse or a bike) shake — shook — shaken (move quickly from side to side)
wake — woke — woken (stop sleeping; make someone stop sleeping)
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Tricky point

3 min

The article once again — on the texts of lessons 25–29. Many languages have no articles at all, and those that have them often use them in other places, so the article is learnt in rounds, not in one lesson.

Go through every noun with four questions:

question answer
are you naming it for the first time? a / an
was it named before, or is it clear which one? the
is it uncountable or plural, in general? no article
is it a country, a city, a name? no article (except the USA, the UK, the Netherlands)

There's a problem with the heating in my room. The manager said the plumber would come at two. I don't like hotels without heating.

Here: a problem — named for the first time; the heating, the manager — it is clear which ones; hotels, heating in the last sentence — in general, no article.

Exercises on lessons 25–29

10–12 min

1. Mixed gap fill.

  1. I'm afraid there's something wrong the heating
  2. The man works here is my brother
  3. If it (rain), I (stay) at home
  4. I (live) in a small town — in the past, not now
  5. He me that he was busy
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with, who, rains / will stay, used to live, told.

2. Error correction.

  1. The man which works here.
  2. The man who he works here.
  3. If it will rain, I'll stay at home.
  4. Did you used to live here?
  5. He said me that he was busy.
  6. I used to visit Rome in 2019.
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The man who works here. / The man that works here.; The man who works here. / The man that works here.; If it rains, I'll stay at home.; Did you use to live here?; He told me that he was busy. / He said that he was busy.; I visited Rome in 2019.

3. Join into one sentence.

  1. I know a woman. She speaks four languages.
  2. We booked a hotel. It was near the station.
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I know a woman who speaks four languages. / I know a woman that speaks four languages.; We booked a hotel which was near the station. / We booked a hotel that was near the station.

4. Matching.

  1. I'm afraid…
  2. Actually…
  3. used to
  4. He told me…
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`I'm afraid…` — softening; `Actually…` — polite disagreement; `used to` — a habit in the past; `He told me…` — reporting.
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Summary

Covered

  • lessons 25–29 in full
  • ninety irregular verbs in the course so far

Next — lesson 31: explaining why you are late.

End of the core

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

Lesson 67

optional

Mini production

Talk aloud and then write down eight sentences: complain about a hotel, describe a person who works there, say what you will do if the weather is bad, what you used to do and what someone told you today.

Checklist before lesson 31:

  • does the complaint start with a softener?
  • who with people, which with things, no second subject?
  • is there the present after if?
  • is used to only about regular things, and is it use without -d in a question?
  • told with a person, said without one?
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Practise this lesson in the other sections

Dictationbased on this lesson Write down what you hear. The check shows every word that differs, and how. Write the dictation Reading aloudbased on this lesson Read the lesson text aloud — speech recognition highlights the words it did not catch. Read the text aloud Reading and listeningA1–C1 Texts at every level with comprehension questions; the transcript opens after you answer. Try it

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