Lesson Plan
Making a Verb Verdict
It’s time to make some verb verdicts! In this lesson, your students will decide if present tense verbs have been correctly changed to reflect the past tense. A focal point of this lesson is the use of irregular verbs. The jury is out!
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Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to recognize correct and incorrect uses of past tense verbs when considering the corresponding present tense verbs.
- Students will be able to make corrections to reflect the proper use of irregular verbs in context.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Tell the students that you are going to give them a word (e.g. jump) and ask them how that that word can be changed to show the past tense.
- Divide students in pairs or small groups and ask them to brainstorm other words that follow a similar pattern. Guide them with the following words if needed: cook, call, and bake.
- Remind the students that most of the time, when present tense verbs are changed to the past tense, the suffix -ed is used. Sometimes there are irregular verbs that do not follow this pattern.
- Tell the students that today they will be working on making a verdict, or decision, about how certain irregular verbs are used.