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1 a.

Match the vowel sounds to the past tense forms of some irregular verbs.

[ɔː] [eɪ] [ʊ] [əʊ] [e] [uː]
flew
 
 
 
 
 
 
broke
 
 
 
 
 
 
read
 
 
 
 
 
 
knew
 
 
 
 
 
 
spoke
 
 
 
 
 
 
took
 
 
 
 
 
 
saw
 
 
 
 
 
 
ate
 
 
 
 
 
 
came
 
 
 
 
 
 
bought
 
 
 
 
 
 
made
 
 
 
 
 
 
could
 
 
 
 
 
 
said
 
 
 
 
 
 
thought
 
 
 
 
 
 
Recording 67, page 98
Exercise 1b Listen and check.

flew
broke
read
knew
spoke
took
saw
ate
came
bought
made
could
said
thought
Recording 68, page 98
Exercise 1c The words in phonemic script below are all irregular past tense verbs. Can you transcribe them? Listen and check.

1

made
2
said
3
spoke
4
kept
5
brought
6
cut
7
fell
8
read
Recording 69, page 98
Exercise 2 Tongue twister. Listen and learn by heart. Can you say it quickly?

Betty bought a bit of butter,
but the butter Betty bought was bitter,
so Betty bought a bit of better butter
to make the bitter butter better.

Betty bought a bit of butter,
but the butter Betty bought was bitter,
so Betty bought a bit of better butter
to make the bitter butter better.
Recording 70, page 98
Exercise 3 Irregular past tense verbs. Listen and repeat.

Group 1 - All three forms of the verb are the same
A
cost - cost - cost
cut - cut - cut
hit - hit - hit
hurt - hurt - hurt
let - let - let
put - put - put
shut - shut - shut
Group 2 - The 2nd and 3rd forms of the verb are the same
B
build - built - built
send - sent - sent
spend - spent - spent

C
dream - dreamt - dreamt
feel - felt - felt
keep - kept - kept
leave - left - left
mean - meant - meant
meet - met - met
sleep - slept - slept
D
get - got - got
lose - lost - lost

E
bring - brought - brought
buy - bought - bought
catch - caught - caught
teach - taught - taught
think - thought - thought

F
sell - sold - sold
tell - told - told
G
find - found - found
have - had - had
hear - heard - heard
make - made - made
pay - paid - paid
read - read - read
say - said - said
sit - sat - sat
stand - stood - stood
understand - understood - understood
win - won - won
Group 3 - All three forms of the verb are different
H
begin - began - begun
drink - drank - drunk
ring - rang - rung
sing - sang - sung
swim - swam - swum

I
break - broke - broken
choose - chose - chosen
speak - spoke - spoken
wake - woke - woken
J
drive - drove - driven
write - wrote - written

K
draw - drew - drawn
fly - flew - flown
grow - grew - grown
know - knew - known
throw - threw - thrown
L
be - was, were - been
do - did - done
eat - ate - eaten
fall - fell - fallen
forget - forgot - forgotten
give - gave - given
go - went - gone
hide - hid - hidden
see - saw - seen
take - took - taken
wear - wore - worn
Group 4 - The 1st and 3rd forms of the verb are the same
M

become - became - become
come - came - come
run - ran - run
 

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