Irregular Verb Games Ideas Here are some ideas for creating irregular verb games:

–Divide students up into terms, and distribute a handout of irregular verbs in their present tense. See which term can put all of the verbs into their past form the quickest.

–Using foam cut outs or other kid-friendly materials, put a mixture of verbs and irregular verbs in a bag. Create a chart with the headings “Regular Verbs” and “Irregular Verbs” on a surface that the material can be attached to. Have students reach into the bag without looking, and place the verb in the proper section.

–Play “Jeopardy!” in the classroom, and make irregular verbs one of the sections.

–In order to get students accustomed to the various forms, distribute pieces of paper with both the irregular verbs and their past tense forms. Have students glue the pairs next to each other on a piece of paper. This activity is of a very basic nature. However, students need to visualize the words and learn them before they can actually put them into play.

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I can’t remember which book I learned this from, but it was a great success in my class of 11-12 year olds.

Purpose: to review the past continuous ie. “They were playing basketball”.

Preparation: Either have cards with action words ready, or use your text book to point to the actions they have studied in their book.

Method: 1) Divide the class into two teams.

2) Create a space where one team can sit in chairs together and the other team can stand up without tables in the way.

3) Have one team sit down and close their eyes, or face the wall.

4) Monitor that eye closed/no peeking rule, perhaps deduct points for peeking.

5) Show the other team an action verb like “playing basketball”.

6) That team silently acts out the action until you say FREEZE.

7) When you say FREEZE every member of the team freezes their current action and holds it.

Team one can now open their eyes and see the frozen actors.

9) Each student from the seated team takes a guess at to what Team 2 was doing. “Was she playing tennis?” HINT: Guessing should be fairly swift, poor team one is patiently frozen, remember.

10) A successful guess gives them one point.

11) After all students guess once, point or no point, play proceeds to the next team. 12) Game ends at teacher’s discretion.

TIPS: To get the game going at a good pace, use simple sentences like “She was eating”. Once the kids are into it, increase the level of difficulty by adding objects (not physical objects, silly) to the sentences. ex. “She was eating spaghetti”.

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