![]() Practice the past perfect in your ESL class with this song, Odorono by The Who. The 8 different examples of the present perfect in this song are:… Practice the present perfect in your ESL class with this song, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For by U2. U2 – I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.These song lyrics include 6 examples of the present perfect continuous: “I’ve been waiting/wishing/praying/taking”,… Practice the present perfect continuous in your ESL class with this song, All My Life by Mariah Carey. These song lyrics include 7 examples of the present perfect simple: “I’ve paid”, “I’ve done”, “I’ve made”,… Practice the present perfect tense in your ESL class with this song, We are the Champions by Queen. The lyrics of this song include the following 7 examples of the past continuous: I was… Practice the past continuous in your ESL class with this song, Jealous Guy by John Lennon. ![]() This song’s lyrics include 12 examples of the prepositions on,… Practice the prepositions ON, AT & IN with expressions of time with this fun song, Gimme some Love by Alan Smith Robertson. There is 1 regular verb and 7 irregular verbs in this song:… ![]() Practice irregular verbs in the past simple in your ESL class with this song, Return to Sender by Elvis Presley. The lyrics of this song contain 27 verbs in 4 tenses: There is a suggestion on how… Practise verb tenses in your ESL class with this song, My Way by Frank Sinatra. The 13 irregular verbs that appear in this song are: got,… Practice the past simple, and especially irregular verbs, in your ESL class with this song, Summer of ’69 by Bryan Adams. The 11 irregular verbs in this song are: stole, was, had,… Practice the past simple (especially irregular verbs) in your ESL class with this song, Sympathy for the Devil by Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the devil.The 14 irregular verbs which appear in these song lyrics are: stood, made,… Practice the past simple (especially irregular verbs) in your ESL class with this song, Because you loved me by Celine Dion. Not convinced?Try one of these songs below, that practise the same grammar or vocabulary as this one: Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall. In addition to teaching in verb patterns, focus on common verbs.He didn’t notice that the red lights had changedįour thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire Long /o/: spoke, drove, woke, broke, awoke, wrote, rode, froze ![]() t: slept, felt, left, spent, met, spent, kept, swept ought/-aught: taught, brought, caught, bought, fought, thought Unchanged: cut, put, quit, burst, hit, shut, bet, hurt, let, cost, burst I teach them roughly in the order presented. Below are the most common irregular verb forms. Irregular past tense verbs are much more difficult and don’t have a clear explanation for their verb patterns. ɪd/ or /əd/: waited, pretended, guarded, tested, acted, edited, ended, started, invited, expected, tasted, decided, needed, wanted, floated, painted, landed, decided IRREGULAR PAST TENSE VERBS t/: walked, worked, dropped, finished, stopped, laughed, coughed, watched, kicked, asked, licked, looked, talked, worked, fixed, danced, passed d/: closed, opened, moved, stayed, traveled, arrived, sneezed, pulled, turned, warned, cried, glued, carried, hugged, robbed, borrowed, entered, remembered, listened The graphic below explains when the past tense verb ends in /d/, /t/, or /ɪd, əd/. Have the student master a verb group before moving onto the next. There are 3 regular past tense verb patterns. Learning past tense verbs is lots and lots of repetition and memorization, but teaching by pattern makes the memorization easier! REGULAR PAST TENSE VERBS I also keep in mind the verbs that are most commonly used in the English language and focus on these verbs. Teaching in this organized manner allows students to better remember and feel confident learning a group of verbs before moving onto the next verb pattern. This method makes past tense verbs much more manageable and enjoyable. In other words, separating them into groups where the ending of the past tense form is the same. I have found the best way is to teach by verb pattern, as opposed to teaching them randomly. There is not much logic and reasoning in past tense verb forms, making them difficult to both teach and learn. English grammar rules are hard! Past tense verbs are definitely not my favorite speech therapy goal to work on.
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