Biography with past simple irregular verbs game
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- Give Ss HO1 (Gap Fill - past forms). Ss look at the irregular verbs. Elicit the meaning of some words Ss might not know, such as catch ("When I throw a ball, you _____" using gestures and body language); leave ("sometimes students don't want to study anymore. They leave school and never go back. They don't graduate and don't get a diploma"). Ask CCQs: "When I leave school, do I get a diploma? No"; lose (show pictures to check meaning) Ask "Is all his money gone?" "Does he has a lot of money?". - After checking the meaning of all verbs, ask Ss to work in pairs and try to guess their past forms. - Elicit ideas from the Ss. - Stick these verbs on the board. Give Ss the cards with their past tense forms on them and asks Ss to match them on the board by sticking them next to the correct verb. - WC FB. Tell Ss to complete the list in their HO. - Drill the verbs and their past forms. Focus particularly on the pronuncation of catch-caught, take-took, win-won, write-wrote -Re-groups Ss by asking them to stand up. Tell them the first letter of my name and ask one student the first letter of her name and ask her if it comes before or after mine in the alphabet. Let her stand next to me and instruct the class
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Irregular Verbs primed Biography
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Irregular Biographical Verbs Activity
Display the PDF, or send the file to your students. Put students in a maximum of four groups. Give students a time limit (if applicable) to associate the biographical statements with the characters. They must use all of the statements! Once everyone has finished, students will present their characters and determine if they share any storylines with the other groups.
Once students have an outline of their characters, assign each group or individual a character for which they must write a short biography, filling in the gaps between the biographical statements they chose. Set a word limit, time limit, or assign the writing activity for homework. By doing so, students will reuse the irregular verbs found on the PDF, along with creative use of past tenses : past simple, past perfect and past continuous.
Then you can have all students write their own sentence for each character. Then, take turns having students read their sentences out loud. The other students must guess who says what.
More irregular verb activities
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