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#Irregular past tense verbs game how to

Challenge students to try the difficult ones.

Explain that irregular verbs will be awarded 1 or 2 points depending on the difficulty of their spelling or on their frequency at an intermediate level.

Bs will have one minute to write as many irregular verbs (infinitive-past-past participle) beginning with the selected letter as they can think of.

Whole class: As decide on a letter to challenge Bs.

Explain that this a competition to be played in pairs: student A and B.

#Irregular past tense verbs game how to

I have created the game below using the cool interactive freemium tool Genial.ly (proud to say I am an ambassador of this great tool developed in Spain) For more information about my workshops on how to use free online tools effectively in your class, have a look hereor here

using technology effectively and meaningfully in my classes.So, playing and learning, a big YES just playing, a huge NO. And this is something I don’t do in my classes. Otherwise, you are just playing or entertaining students. You have to plan exactly what you want to do and how you want to do it if you want the activity to be effective. Just because you use the latest tools does not mean students are going to learn more or better. I have always believed that using technology in the classrooms has a lot of benefits for the students- this is probably not the post to enumerate them- but also, I firmly believe that technology without methodology does nothing for the student. Technically, they have learned the irregular verbs sometime between A2 and B1 but you and I know that irregular verbs are like a pain in the neck to learn only compared to studying phrasal verbs. I know, I know!! I am teaching B2, but trust me, they need the revision.