Regular and Irregular Verbs

Explain that the heart of any sentence is the verb that tells what is happening. Explain that verbs are "inflected": they change form for different times. Some verbs remain uninflected (example: beat). Review tenses and give examples of regular verb tenses (example: walk).

Explain that some verbs do not follow the rules but are irregular and illustrate with "go." Give students a Cloze exercise in which verb forms are omitted but supplied in a word bank. Learners must write the correct form.

This activity should be spread out over time.

Work Bank:
go
going
walk
walking
goes
went
walks
walked

John asked me to _____________to the movies. I asked him when he was___________. He said if all ____________ well, we would ____________tonight. I asked him how we would get there. He said we could _____________. But I do not much like ____________. I used to take ______________ a lot when I was a kid and I have ____________ myself to death!!