Irregular verbs

Irregular verbs.

• Most verbs have past tense and past participle in –ed ( worked, played, listened). But many of the most frequent verbs are irregular.

• Study the next lists of verbs that we are going to use in this course, look a the images and associate them with their meanings:

Infinitive Simple Past Past Participle

arise arose arisen

awake awakened, awoke awakened, awoken

backslide backslid backslidden, backslid

be was, were been

bear bore born, borne

beat beat beaten, beat

become became become

begin began begun

bend bent bent

bet bet bet

Infinitive Simple Past Past Participle

bid bid/bade bidden

bind bound bound

bite bit bitten

bleed bled bled

blow blew blown

break broke broken

breed bred bred

bring brought brought

broadcast broadcast/broadcasted

broadcast/broadcasted

browbeat browbeat browbeat/browbeaten

Listen to the audio below and identifie the irregular verbs.

Sources:

http://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/irregularverbs.html

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/irregular-verbs