Irregular verbs

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Lesson goals

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Irregular verbs

Irregular verbs board game

Lesson goals

After this lesson you learned to use irregular verbs

After this lesson you practised your listening skills

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What do you remember about irregular verbs?

No rules for the irregular verbs, you have to learn them by heart.

Sound or write the same

Some irregular verbs sound or write the same

> Watch out for read, you pronounce the past simple and voltooid deelwoord as /red/ 

Read > read > read

Bet > bet > bet

Shut > shut > shut

Examples

Be	Was/were	Been	Zijn
Become	Became	Become	Worden
Drive	Drove	Driven	Rijden
Drink	Drank	Drunk	Drinken
Dream	Dreamt	Dreamt	Dromen
Write	Wrote	Written	Schrijven

Sentence examples

The ship sank to the bottom of the ocean in a matter of minutes.

I paid for everything you ate. 

I broke a window

To...../told/told

1. Tol
2. Tool
3. Tell
4. Tel

To break/..../....

1. breaked/broken
2. broke/broken
3. broke/broked
4. break/break

Board game

Groups of 4

Roll with a dice

Use the irregular verbs for the word you land on

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What are the rules for irregular verbs?

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What did you learn today?

Lesson goals

After this lesson you learned to use irregular verbs

After this lesson you practised your listening skills

Homework

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