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.

made

said

spoke

kept

brought

cut

fell

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 2^nd and 3^rd 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

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

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