irregular verbs

1. To revise our understanding of
verb tenses.
To investigate spelling rules that
are used in verb changes.

2. Verbs. What is a verb?
 A verb is a word which describes the
action in a sentence (the doing word)
Examples
I play football.
They skip quickly.
We eat spaghetti.
Bob is seven today.

3. Can you spot the words which are
verbs?
sun pink
pig
jump
sit
cup
happy
One way to check
if a word is a verb
is to see if it can be
changed

4. Changing verbs. Verb Tenses
 Verb tenses describe WHEN the action is
happening.
 PRESENT (it’s happening NOW.)
 PAST (it’s ALREADY happened.)
 FUTURE (it’s ABOUT to happen.)

5. Present tense to past tense
 The following sentences are written in the present tense.
Try changing them to the past tense by putting
Yesterday at the beginning of each.
 I walk to school.
 They jump the rope.
 Bob looks at the bug.
 I play football.
How have the verbs changed?
Which word in each
sentence changes?

6. How did you do?
 Yesterday I walked to school.
 Yesterday they jumped quickly.
 Yesterday Bob looked at the bug.
 Yesterday I played football.
Is there a spelling pattern connecting the
changes to these verbs?

7. Most verbs just need ed
walk
jump
look
play
walked
jumped
looked
played

8. Spot the pattern
Put these sentences into the past.
Think how the verbs would alter this time.
 She hops over the cracks.
 The cow skips over the moon.
 I bat the ball in the garden.
 You tap on the window.

9. How did you do?
 She hopped over the cracks.
 The cow skipped over the moon.
 I batted the ball in the garden.
 You tapped on the window.
How have these words altered?

10. What have these words in
common?
hop
skip
bat
tap
hopped
skipped
batted
tapped

11. Similar words. Different rules
tap/ tape
hop/ hope
 I always tape my favourite TV shows.
 We hope we win the race.
hope
tape
hoped
taped

12. Ending in y
 I try to make all my letters join.
 When I hurt myself I cry.
 For breakfast I fry some eggs.
 I carry the register to the office.

13. The y changes to…
 I try to make all my letters join.
 When I hurt myself I cry.
 For breakfast I fry some eggs.
 I carry the register to the office.
try
cry
fry
carry
tried
cried
fried
carried

14. To investigate spelling rules that are used in
verb tense changes.
 Match the rule to each set of words.
(or Challenge can you write your own
rules?)
 Think of more examples that use
these rules.
 Write your own rules for verbs ending
in e, in x.

15. Plenary. What are the rules?
marry married
try tried
spy spied
cook cooked
play played
jump jumped
hug hugged
stop stopped
grab grabbed
save saved
bake baked
tape taped
fix fixed
mix mixed
box boxed
Double the final
consonant and add
ed
Most words=
Add ed
Change y to i then
add ed

16. To understand and spell
irregular verbs.
To develop our understanding of
standard English

17. A quick recap and challenge
 Write the past tense versions of these verbs.
pot
pack
stop
wait
try
keep
waited
packed
stopped
potted
tried
married
marry
kept
give gave

19. Odd bods. Look at the next sentences. Can
you place these in the past? Be careful!
 Jack and Jill go up the hill.
 Thomas finds the mouse.
 Lucy does her homework after school.
 Bo Peep sits on her sheep.

20. How did you do?
 Jack and Jill went up the hill.
 Thomas found the mouse.
 Lucy did her homework after school.
 Bo Peep sat on her sheep.
Irregular verbs can be tricky to learn. You
might hear people at school using the
add ‘ed’ rule to irregular verbs.

21. My day
Last weekend I goed to my friend’s house. First, I
runned up to the door and ringed the bell… no
answer. I writed a note and readed it back to
myself. Just then, I seed my friend, so we rided
our bikes. Later we goed to the shops and
buyed some sweets. Mike, my friend, eated half
of his then putted the rest in his bag. I’m not like
him – I eated all mine in one go!
It is important that we learn irregular verbs so that we use
STANDARD ENGLISH.

22. Though irregular verbs do not follow the + ed pattern
of regular verbs, there are some patterns to discover
with irregular verbs. Can you spot any here?
blow
meet
feed
grow
throw
blew
met
fed
grew
threw
What has happened to the words ending in ow?
What has happened to the words with double e?

23. To investigate the spelling of
irregular verbs.
 Spread the cards across your table.
 Match up past and present examples of
irregular verbs.
 Try to group verbs with similar spelling
changes.

24. What did you find?

25. Proofreading.
Read through these sentences. Can you
spot a problem?
 Last year I eat school dinners and go to
after school club.
 We will go in to the hall yesterday for our
fitness session with Mrs Perkins.