Aim: What is the Simple Past of Irregular Verbs? Language Arts on Mondays Ms. Sakhno - ESL

You can find the complete list of irregular verbs at www.ego4u.com Many verbs are irregular. They do not end in –ed in the simple past. So we have to memorize them all. Base Form Simple Past Begin Began Break Broke Bring Brought Drink Drank Fight Fought Forget Forgot Hide Hid Sing Sang Sweep swept You can find the complete list of irregular verbs at www.ego4u.com

Find irregular verbs in the text below. The year was 1912. The Titanic was a new, very large ship. People thought it was safe. But on April 15, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank. More than 1,500 people lost their lives.

Be careful! Always use base form in negative sentences! The Titanic had enough lifeboats. The Titanic didn’t have enough lifeboats. People knew about the icebergs. People didn’t know about the icebergs. The Captain left the ship. The Captain Edward John Smith (1850-1912) __________ the ship.

Fill in the irregular verbs. In 1908, the White Star Line _________ to work on the Titanic. On April 10, 1912, the Titanic ________ Southampton, England, on its first trip. Four day later, at 11:40 p.m., it _______ an iceberg. About two and a half hours later, the ship _____. The captain of the Titanic ________ down with his ship. People in lifeboats _________ a bright light. It was another ship, the Carpathia. The Carpathia came to save them. But 1,571 people _________ lost their lives in the disaster. In 1985, scientists _________ the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic.

Read about one passenger on the Titanic Read about one passenger on the Titanic. Find and correct seven mistakes in the use of irregular simple past verbs. Molly Brown comes from a poor family. She didn’t went to high school. She left home and gots married. In 1894, her husband finded gold and they became rich. Soon after, her husband left her, but Molly didn’t feel sad. She maked friends with rich and famous people in New York and Europe. She were with many of them on the Titanic. On that terrible day in 1912, Molly was a hero. She helped save many other passengers. Because of this, she become famous as “the unsinkable Molly Brown”.

Homework: Find and copy 7 sentences with different irregular verbs from your independent reading.