Irregular past tense: review

Key Notes:

🌟 Irregular Past Tense – Review

📖 What is Past Tense?

Past tense is used to talk about actions that already happened ⏳.

• ✅ Example: Yesterday, I played football. ⚽

🔄 Regular vs. Irregular Verbs

Regular verbs ➝ add –ed 📝

• walk → walked 🚶
• jump → jumped 🤸

Irregular verbs ➝ ❌ no –ed rule!

• go → went 🚌
• eat → ate 🍕

🎭 Patterns of Irregular Past Tense

1️⃣ Vowel change (inside word changes) ✍️

• begin → began
• swim → swam 🏊
• ring → rang 🔔

2️⃣ Complete change (word looks new!) 🌈

• go → went
• buy → bought 🛒
• eat → ate 🍽️

3️⃣ No change (same word, different time) ⏰

• put → put
• cut → cut ✂️
• hit → hit 👊

📝 Examples in Sentences

• Yesterday, she went to the market. 🛍️
• He sang a beautiful song. 🎤
• I cut the paper neatly. ✂️
• They took the bus to school. 🚌
• We ate pizza for dinner. 🍕

💡 Tips to Remember

• ✨ Irregular verbs = must be memorized!
• 📚 Read stories & practice writing in past tense.
• 🎯 Group verbs into patterns (vowel change / complete change / no change).

🎮 Quick Practice (Fill in the blanks)

• Drink → ______ (🥤 drank)
• Write → ______ (✍️ wrote)
• Find → ______ (🔍 found)
• Run → ______ (🏃 ran)
• Sleep → ______ (😴 slept)

let’s practice!