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Which verbs are regular?

Which verbs are irregular?

Now check with the rules.

Do you remember?

Verbs that add -ed in the Past Simple are regular . Verbs that have special forms in the Past Simple are irregular .

Remember!

There are three different ways to pronounce the -ed ending of regular verbs. Also mind the spelling of regular verbs in the Past Simple. We learn the forms of irregular verbs by heart.

Practice

Find five regular and five irregular verbs in the text in 6. Read the sentences.

In your notebook, write the Past Simple forms of the verbs below.

teach bring buy tell feel write understand fall

Listen, check and repeat.

In your notebook, complete the sentences with the Past Simple forms of the verbs in bold.

Model:

They got up early in the morning.

Vicky … Alice a Ukrainian folk song. Alice … an email to Dorothy

Uncle John … very happy when he … the Imperial Eagle.

Aunt Anna … the children a story about her visit to Kremenets when she … a child. They … some souvenirs.

2. After

Study the examples and answer the question.

After we arrived, we went on an adventure weekend. We went on an adventure weekend after we arrived.

What happened first?

Now read the rule.

We use after to talk about the order of events. We put after in front of the action that happened first.

Look at the pictures. Follow the model and make sentences with after and the Past Simple. Be careful – some of the verbs are regular!

see the eagle have a snack fall asleep get into the van make a sandwich go back home arrive call grandma go hiking be very tired

Model:

After they arrived, they saw the eagle.

Make sentences again. Follow the model below.

Model:

They saw the eagle after they arrived.

3.Zero article (things in general)

Read and compare the sentences in each pair.

a. We go climbing every weekend.

b. We were very tired so we skipped the climbing.

a Eagles can spot small animals up to 3 km away.

b.The eagle saw us and flew away.

a.Children like ice cream.

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