Remember to praise the child when they get it correct. Before you start the game, remind the child that these verbs are different and don’t take -ed. Play a game, but before each turn you have to pick a verb picture and try and put it in the past tense. ew (blow – blew), no change (cut – cut), I normally teach them all together and instead target a selection of the most commonly used verbs. Although there are different structures e.g. Often, if you say the correct version they will have heard that word.
I generally find that children just have to learn the irregular forms. Then we have to introduce the idea that sometimes the verb doesn’t take -ed!
If you need more ideas for this section read this post. Then we also want them to understand the regular -ed form. They also need some understanding of what a verb is and which bit it is in the sentence. The first job is to ensure that the child understands the past tense, and that it means something is finished. We didn’t ‘blowed’ out the candles on the birthday cake yesterday we didn’t ‘sleeped’ and this morning I didn’t ‘drinked’ my coffee!Īccording to Steven Pinker, the famous Psychologist and Linguist, 70 % of the commonly used verbs are in fact irregular. This makes them an important area to teach for all children and especially those with a language delay or difficulty. Once the child has mastered this, the next fun step is all the irregular verbs! As with nearly all grammatical rules in English there are always exceptions. Before Christmas, Helen wrote a post about teaching children to use the regular past tense.
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