You are going to play a game to revise the form of the past simple tense. work in groups of three: two players and a referee. players take turns choosing a square. the referee asks a question. if the player answers correctly, the referee marks a nought or a cross on the square. when a player gets a line of three, they win the game. a) name a regular verb that ends in –ed and is pronounced as /t/. e.g. laughed (work, joke, cook, pass, wash, help, fix, check, brush, relax) b) name a regular verb that ends in –ed and is pronounced as /d/. e.g. played (surprise, live, hug, save, comb, arrive, turn, iron, water, open) c) name a regular verb that ends in –ed and is pronounced as /id/. e.g. wanted (wait, end, decide, defend, expect, hate, need, start, taste, chat) d) name an irregular verb with three identical forms. e.g. cut-cut-cut (put, let, hit, cost, hurt, quit, set, shut) e) name a time indicator of the past simple tense. e.g. last year (ago, in 2004, yesterday, the day before yesterday, on december 30th, last …. , on my last birthday, during my childhood…) f) name an irregular verb with identical forms of past simple and past participle. e.g. spend-spentspent (understand, stand, bring, fight, teach, catch, leave, buy, think, build) g) name an irregular verb with three different forms. e.g. do-did-done (write, come, go, grow, know, sing, swim, drink, eat, drive) h) name a verb that changes its spelling when –ed is added. e.g. fry – fried (tidy, marry, worry, hurry, carry, copy, cry, dry) i) name a verb that doesn’t change its spelling when –ed is added. e.g. enjoy – enjoyed (annoy, play, stay, employ, obey, pray, destroy)
