Game For Teaching Irregular Verbs

This game is used to make your students enjoy learning English. It's suggested to apply in learning grammar especially when introducing irregular verbs.

Procedure:

1. Give students a list of irregular verbs.

Present Form	Past Form	Past Participle
Cut	Cut	Cut
Draw	Drew	Drawn
Dig	Dug	Dug
Drink	Drank	Drunk
Eat	Ate	Eaten
Feed	Fed	Fed
Fly	Flew	Flown
Go	Went	Gone
Grow	Grow	Grown
Hit	Hit	Hit
Know	Knew	Known
Kneel	Knelt	Knelt
Lay	Laid	Laid
Lie	Lay	Lain
Let	Let	Let
Meet	Met	Met
Read	Read	Read
Sing	Sang	Sung
Sweep	Swept	Swept

2. Ask students to draw table as the following:

 

3. Ask students to put 16 verbs from the list. To make it simple, focus on one list of verbs. Example: if you teach them Present Perfect Tense, ask them to put the Past Participle only.

Example:

swept	gone	known	hit
sung	dug	lain	grown
eaten	read	let	fed
flown	cut	drunk	drawn

4. Tell them that you are going to call out some verbs from list. Tell them that they have to cross out a verb that is called out. If there is 4 verbs in one straight line, they have to say "BINGO"

Say "BINGO" if you cross out as the following:

x	x	x	x

Say "BINGO" if you cross out as the following

x
x
x
x

Say "BINGO" if you cross out as the following:

x
	x
		x
			x

Say "BINGO" if you cross out as the following

			x
		x
	x
x

Say "BINGO" if you cross out as the following:

x	x	x	x

Say "BINGO" if you cross out as the following

	x
	x
	x
	x

5. Call out some verbs. 

6. Give small prize like candy to student who says "BINGO"

7. Continue the game until you find 5 winners.