- Past Simple Regular And Irregular Verbs Exercises
- Regular And Irregular Verbs Exercises With Answers
- Regular And Irregular Verbs Exercises For Grade 5
Click a link below and download memory cards from the Teacher’s Zone website: - Simple Past irregular verbs memory cards. Simple Past regular verbs memory cards. Print and cut the Simple Past memory cards out. Divide students into groups of four and distribute one set of memory cards for each group. Regular & Irregular Verbs Gapfill Exercise. Complete each sentence using the verbs in the brackets. Think carefully about regular and irregular verbs! My sister (buy) a beautiful leather jacket yesterday. It was so expensive. Can you tell me if the 6.43 train to Chicago (leave) on time or not?
- How to form the Present Perfect Simple with irregular verbs. It's the same as with the regular ones. You take a subject I, then your auxiliary verb have, in the present simple and then you use the past participle. For irregular verbs, that's the word in column 3. Fight, fought, fought.
- This test is about regular and irregular verbs (past simple). There are 10 questions in this test an each question has only one true answer. You can see your score and the correct answer after you finish the test.
- An irregular verb is a verb that has a past tense or past participle form that does not end in ed. Here is a regular verb: walk (present), walked (past tense), walked (past participle) Here is an irregular verb: break (present), broke (past tense), broken (past participle) Naturally, the past simple form is used to talk about the past, e.g.
Exercise 3
Complete the text with these verbs in past simple.
ask arrive fly go pay say stop take tell think want
Past simple regular
We often add -ed to verbs (regular verbs) to make the past simple.
- We often watch a film on Saturday. ⇒ We watched a film last Saturday.
- I live in Barcelona. ⇒ I lived in Barcelona in the 90s.
Spelling of regular verbs
Download full-size image from Pinterest
When do we double the consonant?
We double the consonant when the verb ends in consonant + vowel + consonant. This is always true when the verb is one syllable.
- stop ⇒ stopped, plan ⇒ planned, shop ⇒ shopped, rob ⇒ robbed.
When the verb is two syllables, we only double the consonant when the STRESS is in the last syllable.
- reFER ⇒ referred, preFER ⇒ preferred, reGRET ⇒ regretted
But we do NOT double the consonant when the STRESS is NOT in the last syllable.
- VIsit ⇒ visited, ANswer ⇒ answered.
Past simple irregular
Some verb are irregular and they don’t add -ed to make the past simple. Some very common irregular verbs are:
Download full-size image from Pinterest
Past simple – use
Past finished actions or states
We can use the past simple to talk about past finished actions or states. We know and we often mention when these actions happened with a past time expression: yesterday, yesterday morning, last night, last week, two days ago, five years ago, etc.
- Jessica called me last night.
- Rachel was a very good writer.
Past repeated actions
We can use the past simple to talk about habits or repeated actions that happened in the past but don’t happen in the present. We often use adverbs or expressions of frequency (often, always, every day, etc.).
- When I was a child, I ate sweets every day.
- In school, I always played football during break time.
Tags: verbs, grammar, printables, vocabulary, games, activities