Tenses

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Things We Wear

What do you see?

When do you think people wore these types of clothes?

Why did they wear these types of clothes?

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Simple Past Irregular Verbs

Lesson objective

By the end of the lesson, students will:

• Identify and use irregular simple past tense verbs to describe what the plague doctors wore and did.

• Speak and write 1 simple sentence using irregular verbs.

Past simple tense: talks about a completed action in a time before now. It doesn't matter whether it is recent past or distant past. It doesn't matter when it got completed in the past, as long as it is completed.

1. During covid, people used masks and hand sanitizers.

2. This made people feel safe.

• looking at these sentences, are they in the present or the in the past form?

• which of these 2 sentences is irregular and how do you know?

• what is the verb in the second sentence? what is the present tense of that verb.

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Identify the irregular verbs in the following sentences.

Identify the verbs that are related to clothing.

1. Long ago, the plague made people very ill.

2. Doctors had to help people with the plague.

3. Doctors wore special suits so that they didn't get ill.

4. Doctors also put on red glasses. They thought the colour red would keep them safe.

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Extra practice (Think-pair-share)

Guided Activity (answer key)

• words in bold are the verbs.

• Do you recognize any similarity between the words?

• Does not follow a specific conjugation rule. simple past tense and past participle may differ so you just have to learn it by heart and memorize it.

1. Long ago, the plague made people very ill.

2. Doctors had to help people with the plague.

3. Doctors wore special suits so that they didn't get ill.

4. Doctors also put on red glasses. They thought the colour red would keep them safe.

Write the past tense form of the verb in the parenthisis:

The doctor(go) to the hospital with protective clothing.

Guided practice

A

goed

B

went

C

gone

D

going

Write the past tense form of the verb in brackets/parenthisis:

The doctor(go) to the hospital with protective clothing.

A

goed

B

went

C

gone

D

going

Write the past tense form of the verb in brackets/parenthisis:

During the plague, some people(put) herbs inside their masks.

A

putted

B

putting

C

put

D

puted

Write the past tense form of the verb in brackets/parenthisis:

During the plague, some people(put) herbs inside their masks.

A

putted

B

putting

C

put

D

puted

Write the past tense form of the verb in brackets/parenthisis:

Many people(buy) face masks in 2020.

A

buyed

B

buying

C

buy

D

bought

Write the past tense form of the verb in brackets/parenthisis:

Many people(buy) face masks in 2020.

A

buyed

B

buying

C

buy

D

bought

Write the past tense form of the verb in brackets/parenthisis:

People(feel) scared during the pandemic.

A

felt

B

feeled

C

feeling

D

felted

Write the past tense form of the verb in brackets/parenthisis:

People(feel) scared during the pandemic.

A

felt

B

feeled

C

feeling

D

felted

Irregular verbs

Remember

• some verbs undergo a vowel change when they shift from present to past.

example: sleep- slept, feel-felt,

• Some verbs change completely.

example: Think-thought, buy-bought, catch-caught, bring- brought, go-went

• Some undergo a consonant change.

example: make-made, have-had and spend- spent, build-built (they have same vowel sounds but different consonants)

• Some don't change at all.

example: cost-cost, put-put, cut-cut, fit-fit, set-set

• Some maintain the same spelling, the verb remain the same in the present and past tense but the pronunciation changes.

example: read-read

Does not follow a specific conjugation rule. simple past tense and past participle may differ so you just have to learn it by heart and memorize it.

Try it out (Group work) (10 minutes)

1. Pick one picture .

2. Create a present and past tense sentence.

3. what happens to the verb?

4. Exchange your work with the opposite group members.

5. Read your sentence out loud to the rest of the class.

The doctor wore a long black coat.

The principle gave masks to students.

1. Does it undergo a vowel change (sleep-slept), does it change completely ( go-went), a consonant change (spend-spent), no change at all (put-put) or stays the same and pronounced differently (read-read)

How do you read to remember? What strategies do you use?

Visual Learners.

See the verb.

flashcards:

mindmaps:

Auditory Learners.

Say the verb.

chant/rhythm

songs

oral repetition

record and listen

Kinesthetic Learners.

Move the verb.

action verbs with movement.

memory matching game

Learning strategies are tricks and tools that help us remember, understand and learn any language easily, in this case English.

What strategies are you going to use and why?

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Student Book page 92

National Geographic Learning

Unit 5 | Grammar 2 | Exercise 1page 92

What have I learned today?

Type 3 irregular verbs that you can easily spell.

Name two things you had to wear to stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Type one verb that is still hard for you to remember or spell.

Word Bank

• Mask

• Gloves

• Coat

• Boots

• Disease

• Virus

• Protection

• Pandemic

• Quarantine

Irregular Verbs

• Wear- wore

• Go- went

• See- saw

• Have- had

• Make- made

• Come- came

Past simple Irregular verbs video explanation