Toni's ESL Space

To Have

Simple past, present and futureUses of “have”

Irregular Verbs:

What are irregular verbs?

Most verbs in the English language take -ed to form the past tense and the past participle forms.  For example:

• I worked in New York for many years.
• I have worked in New York for thirty years.

Some verbs are irregular, which means they don’t follow the usual -ed pattern.  In fact, irregular verbs are more a matter of vocabulary memorization than grammar, and so you must simply work towards memorizing the words.  Here are a few examples of irregular verbs:

• Thomas swam in the lake every summer afternoon.
• I had forgotten my lunch appointment, so I got to the restaurant thirty minutes late.
• Our teacher taught us about irregular verbs yesterday.

Here’s a list of many irregular verbs.  The ones marked with the following symbol ( ο ) are more often used, and should perhaps first be studied.

Links to grammar explanation handout and graded worksheets (word search):

• Irregular Verbs List w/most common marked
  http://www.headsupenglish.com/beginner/grammar/irregularverbs.pdf
• Irregular Verbs Word Search 3 levels
  http://www.headsupenglish.com/beginner/grammar/irregularverbscrossword.pdf

Find above at http://toni-esl.com/blog/heads-up-english-esl-lessons-irregular-verbs/

Link to my webpage, long list of irregular verbs:

• http://toni-esl.com/blog/irregular-verbs-list-3/

Computer Lab:

maybe not – Past Participle exercise http://www.5minuteenglish.com/may5.htm

This is a note for me, not to present the class in total.

To Have – Auxiliary Verb

Have is used as an auxiliary verb in the perfect tenses. Remember that the auxiliary verb takes the conjugation in English, so the verb have will change depending on the tense. Here is a quick review of the tenses that use have as an auxiliary verb:

Present Perfect: He has been to Georgia twice.

Present Perfect Continuous: They have been waiting for over an hour.

Past Perfect: He had already eaten when she arrived.

Past Perfect Continuous: Jane had been working for two hours when he telephoned

Filed under: Class Plan Tagged: auxiliary verbs, have, to have

Today we focus on one story.  We will do activities in class and the computer lab.  A One-Mile Race from eslyes.com.

Vocabulary

• Present the vocab list on the board.
• Ss will write the words in their notebooks.
• Review verbally for comprehension
  • Ask which words are unfamiliar
  • Ask Ss to explain/define or translate familiar words
• Ss write vocab on index cards – English one side, translate if needed.
• Spread cards out on desk
• As I read the story aloud, Ss place cards in order they appear in story.  We do this together, I check off each word on the board as we go.

Vocabulary List for A One-Mile Race

around
boy
end
fast
line
mile
place
race
run
shorts
show
sneakers
start
third
track

The Story

A One-Mile Race

There is a race today. He puts on his shorts. He puts on his sneakers. He goes to the track. It is a one-mile race. Other boys show up at the starting line. The race starts. All the boys run fast. They run around the track four times. The race ends. He comes in third place.

Computer Lab

https://classlabs.wordpress.com/2015/02/08/a-one-mile-race-story/

Go to A One-Mile Race on eslyes.com to hear the story.

Do the exercises below:

• Cloze – fill in the words
• Crossword – a puzzle, use the vocabulary words
• Sentences – make a correct sentence
• Dictation – listen and write what you hear

Comprehension: Quiz on my site

Notes

Progress

• G finished all, except Comprehension Quiz – will do it at home.
• Y had to leave at 2 – working on Crossword

Next Class

• Ss retell story using index cards
• Finish lab – (and something new for G)

Class | 11feb 2015 was originally published on Notes for Class

Filed under: Class Plan Tagged: class, crosspost, lab, story