Irregular verbs can be difficult to memorize. The best thing is that they are so common in English that you see them very often and you use them very often too. There are different ideas to learn the past forms of irregular verbs, and the following ones are just a few:
Just memorize the list (not that simple!)
Group them by similar spelling, for example: boUGHT, caUGHT, and broUGHT share the same spelling, so it is a good idea to learn them together.
Make sentences or phrases that are easy to remember using some of the verbs you want to learn, for example: Yesterday I WENT shopping and I BOUGHT clothes but I FORGOT my wallet so I LEFT the clothes in the shop and I CAME back home really sad.
Making groups of verbs that have a common topic, for example: WROTE, DRAW, READ, TAUGHT, could be associated to the idea of making a project at school. You decide your categories and what verbs go into your categories. It's personal.
Keep cards with the verbs you want to learn with you, so you can test yourself anytime.
Play games using the verbs you want to learn.
In this LINK you'll find games to practise irregular verbs in the past.
Look at the poster below and notice the difference between routines or actions we do as part of our routine and actions that we are doing in this moment, and which are not often part of our routine.
I don'thave lunch at home. I have lunch in the company's canteen. He doesn'teat meat. He's a vegetarian. Argentina doesn't limitwith Paraguay on the west. It limits with Chile. The Sun doesn't go around Earth. Earth goes around the Sun. February doesn't have thirty days. It has 28 days, or 29! Argentinian citizens don't speak English as their first language. They speak Spanish.
These sentences are in Present Simple tense, in the negative form. It is necesarry to add an auxiliary before the verb to make the negative form.
DON'T = DO NOT
DOESN'T = DOES NOT
Don't forget to use the base (infinitive) form of the verb.
The following exercise gives some practice with the Present Simple tense, affirmative and negative.
Present Simple: Routines
Present Simple: Routines
Complete the text with the verbs in brackets in the Present Simple Tense.
I always get up very early. I go to the gym twice a week. He lives in Barcelona. She is married and has two children. My country limits with Chile on the west. Planet Earth revolves around the Sun.
All of them are in the Simple Present tense.
We use this tense to talk, basically about:
Facts
Routines / Habits
The following exercise offers some practice with this verb tense.
Present Simple: Life in the countryside
Present Simple: Life in the countryside
Choose the correct option to complete the text. Remember that you need to use the Simple Present form of the verbs in brackets.
Life in the countryside
We 1. (live) ______ in a small cottage in the countryside. We 2. (not/like) ______ the city life because the contact with Nature is almost impossible in the city. Here we 3. (have) ______ contact with Nature all the time.
My wife and I 4. (work) ______ in the local school during the morning and our daughter 5. (go) ______ to school in the morning too.
In the afternoon we 6. (walk) ______ in the country and 7. (sit) ______ under the trees. When the weather 8. (not/be) ______ fine, we usually 9. (stay) ______ at home. My wife 10. (bake) ______ some delicious cookies or pies and we 11. (not/feel) ______ sad for staying at home, on the contrary: We 12. (love) ______ eating her treats!
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