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Hello, I’m Emma from mmmEnglish! My students are always complaining about irregular English verbs. How can I learn them? What are the rules?! ! I’m not going to lie, they are tough! Be, do, have, go, come, say, take, get, make, see These are all really common English verbs! And… they’re all irregular verbs! So when they change into the past simple tense or the present perfect tense, the verb changes quite a lot. But you already know this. There are fewer irregular verbs than there are regular verbs. But these irregular verbs are very, very common verbs.

They’re used more often than other regular verbs. So if you’ve been telling yourself that you don’t need to worry about irregular verbs. Get your head out of the clouds! Stop dreaming! You need to learn how to use these important English verbs . Automatically. In this lesson, I’m going to test your knowledge of past tense irregular verbs, to train you to think of them instantly! So, get ready!

You need to be thinking quickly! Pay attention. On the screen, you’ll see a verb appear in the present tense: eat Then, you’ll see the past simple tense: ate And the past participle: eaten But this is a speed test! So you need to try and beat me to it! Answer, out loud before I do and then…. You can tell your friends that you beat your teacher in an irregular verb test! Ready?

Let’s get started! become became become bring brought brought forget forgot forgotten - course you didn’t forget! choose chose chosen find found found come came come drive drove driven fall fell fallen feel felt felt buy bought bought - I thought you’d know that one! fly flew flown be Now the be verb in the present tense, is am or is or are In the past simple tense, it’s was or were And as a past participle, it’s being Nice one! know knew known get got And.. it could be got or gotten - depending on if you’re using British or American English.

wear wore worn tear tore torn have - we did this one before! had and had swim In the past tense, swam In the past participle, swum keep kept kept go And the past simple is went and in the past participle, it’s gone or been That could be a little tricky to explain but you use “been” and “gone” for different reasons. If you go somewhere else, to another country, to a friend’s house, then you have gone from the original place - maybe your house. But if you have been, then you have gone but you’ve also come back to the original place. That’s the main difference between been and gone.

teach taught and taught sleep slept slept lend lent and lent stand stood and stood pay paid paid let let and let lose lost and lost sing sang sung meet met and met begin began begun put put and put read read and read Notice the pronunciation changes but the spelling stays the same. Read, read, read. say said said make made Course you know that one - it’s made. sell sold sold think think thought I thought it was right! Have you thought about that? thought drink drank drunk send sent and sent leave left and left sit sat sat speak spoke spoken write wrote and written take took and taken lie and this is lie, when you’re not telling the truth becomes lied and lied But lie can also be when you are flat, like on your bed. And it becomes lay and lain Now that’s not very common to use the past participle form of lay.

But, it’s worth knowing the difference. There are two verbs that are very similar. smell Now, smell is usually a regular verb. smelled But, in the UK it can be an irregular verb, in British English smelt, smelt Just be careful you might see it written in a couple of different ways. But, the most common way is smelled. And the past participle form is smelled. give gave given hear heard and heard tell told and told see saw seen understand understood understood do did done Phew! How did you go?

I’m sure there were quite a few that you know and that you got right! But there were probably a few that tested your memory. Maybe you haven’t used them in a little while! So it’s a good idea to jog your memory. But don’t worry about it if you didn’t get them all right! Use this video to test and build your knowledge of these verbs. Go back to the start of the video and practise again and again and again, until you have them all memorised! Which irregular verbs do you find most difficult to use and remember?

Share them in the comments under this video! And don’t forget that there are a bunch of irregular verbs that are only irregular because they don’t actually change in different tenses! They’re always the same - there’s only one form. For example: bet cut hit hurt let put - we spoke about those just before. quit read and read The spelling is the same but the pronunciation’s different. set shut and spread.