The using of regular and irregular verbs

explaining about verb, including regular and irregular verbs

1. To investigate spelling rules that are used in
verb changes.

2. 
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.
Verbs. What is a verb?

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
sun pink
pig jump
sit
cup
happy

4. 
Verb tenses describe WHEN the action
is happening.

PRESENT (it’s happening NOW.)
PAST (it’s ALREADY happened.)
FUTURE (it’s ABOUT to happen.)
Changing verbs.
Verb Tenses

5. 
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.
Present tense to
past tense
How have the verbs changed?
Which word in each
sentence changes?

6. 
Yesterday I walked to school.
Yesterday they jumped quickly.
Yesterday Bob looked at the bug.
Yesterday I played football.

How did you do?
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. 
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.
Spot the pattern

9. 
She hopped over the cracks.
The cow skipped over the
moon.
I batted the ball in the garden.
You tapped on the window.

How did you do?
How have these words altered?

10. 
What have these words in
common?
hop
skip
bat
tap

hopped
skipped
batted
tapped

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

12. 
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.
Ending in y

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. 
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.
To investigate spelling rules that are used in
verb tense changes.

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 develop our understanding of standard
English

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

18. 
Jack and Jill go up the hill.
Thomas finds the mouse.
Lucy does her homework after school.
Bo Peep sits on her sheep.
Odd bods. Look at the next sentences. Can you
place these in the past? Be careful!

19. 
Jack and Jill went up the hill.
Thomas found the mouse.
Lucy did her homework after school.
Bo Peep sat on her sheep.

How did you do?
Irregular verbs can be tricky to learn. You
might hear people at school using the
add ‘ed’ rule to irregular verbs.

20. 
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!
My day
It is important that we learn irregular verbs so that we use
STANDARD ENGLISH.

21. 
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?

22. 
Spread the cards across your table.
Match up past and present examples of irregular
verbs.
Try to group verbs with similar spelling changes.
To investigate the spelling
of irregular verbs.

23. What did you find?

24. 
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.
Proofreading.