To revise our understanding of verb tenses.

To investigate spelling rules that are used in verb changes.

Verbs. What is a verb?

A verb is a word which describes the action in a sentence (the doing word)

Examples

I play football.

They skip quickly.

We eat spaghetti.

Bob is seven today.

Can you spot the words which are verbs?

sun pink

pigjump

sitcup

happy

One way to check if a word is a verb is to see if it can be changed

Changing verbs. Verb Tenses

Verb tenses describe WHEN the action is happening.

PRESENT (it’s happening NOW.) PAST (it’s ALREADY happened.) FUTURE (it’s ABOUT to happen.)

Present tense to past tense

The following sentences are written in the present tense. Try changing them to the past tense by putting Yesterday at the beginning of each.

I walk to school. They jump the rope. Bob looks at the bug. I play football.

How have the verbs changed?

Which word in each sentence changes?

How did you do?

Yesterday I walked to school. Yesterday they jumped quickly. Yesterday Bob looked at the bug. Yesterday I played football.

Is there a spelling pattern connecting the changes to these verbs?

Most verbs just need ed

walk

jump

look

play

walked

jumped

looked

played

Spot the pattern

Put these sentences into the past. Think how the verbs would alter this time.

She hops over the cracks. The cow skips over the moon. I bat the ball in the garden. You tap on the window.

How did you do?

She hopped over the cracks. The cow skipped over the moon. I batted the ball in the garden. You tapped on the window.

How have these words altered?

What have these words in common?

hop

skip

bat

tap

hopped

skipped

batted

tapped

Similar words. Different rules

tap/ tape

hop/ hope I always tape my favourite TV shows. We hope we win the race.

hope

tape

hoped

taped

Ending in y

I try to make all my letters join. When I hurt myself I cry. For breakfast I fry some eggs. I carry the register to the office.

The y changes to…

I try to make all my letters join. When I hurt myself I cry. For breakfast I fry some eggs. I carry the register to the office.

try

cry

fry

carry

tried

cried

fried

carried

To investigate spelling rules that are used in verb tense changes.

Match the rule to each set of words. (or Challenge can you write your own rules?)

Think of more examples that use these rules.

Write your own rules for verbs ending in e, in x.

Plenary. What are the rules?

marry marriedtry tried

spy spied

cook cookedplay played

jump jumped

hug huggedstop stoppedgrab grabbed

save savedbake bakedtape taped

fix fixedmix mixedbox boxed

Double the final consonant and

add ed

Most words=Add ed

Change y to i then add ed

To understand and spell irregular verbs.

To develop our understanding of standard English

A quick recap and challenge Write the past tense versions of these verbs.

pot

pack

stop

wait

try

keep

waited

packed

stopped

potted

tried

marriedmarry

kept

give gave

Odd bods. Look at the next sentences. Can you place these in the past? Be careful!

Jack and Jill go up the hill. Thomas finds the mouse. Lucy does her homework after school. Bo Peep sits on her sheep.

How did you do?

Jack and Jill went up the hill. Thomas found the mouse. Lucy did her homework after school. Bo Peep sat on her sheep.

Irregular verbs can be tricky to learn. You might hear people at school using the add ‘ed’ rule to irregular verbs.

My day

Last weekend I goed to my friend’s house. First, I runned up to the door and ringed the bell… no answer. I writed a note and readed it back to myself. Just then, I seed my friend, so we rided our bikes. Later we goed to the shops and buyed some sweets. Mike, my friend, eated half of his then putted the rest in his bag. I’m not like him – I eated all mine in one go!

It is important that we learn irregular verbs so that we use STANDARD ENGLISH.

Though irregular verbs do not follow the + ed pattern of regular verbs, there are some patterns to discover with irregular verbs. Can you spot any here?

blow

meet

feed

grow

throw

blew

met

fed

grew

threw

What has happened to the words ending in ow?What has happened to the words with double e?

To investigate the spelling of irregular verbs.

Spread the cards across your table. Match up past and present examples of

irregular verbs. Try to group verbs with similar spelling

changes.

What did you find?

Proofreading.

Read through these sentences. Can you spot a problem?

Last year I eat school dinners and go to after school club.

We will go in to the hall yesterday for our fitness session with Mrs Perkins.