Hello!
This is the story of how we form past tenses. First of all the regular past tenses, I'll
just write 'regular past tenses' there, all of which end in 'd' or 'ed' and then the crazy
guys the irregular past tenses. Hope you enjoy it!
So, first of all we're looking at the regular verbs, here's a little picture of three of
them - 'walk', 'walked'; 'phone', 'phoned'; 'text', 'texted'. They all end in the same
way, 'd' or 'ed' and they are all regular verbs, there are three different regular verbs,
regular verbs, the pronounciations are slightly different. Now I want to say about these that,
first of all, most verbs in English are regular, so I'll just write there 'most verbs' and
the good news is 'all new verbs' are regular. And here's a few examples: 'google' that's
a new verb and past tense is 'google-d', another one, 'to mouse', I'll write 'to mouse'
there, past tense 'he moused over the picture. Another one to skype somebody 'he skyped'
me yesterday' and so on, so those are the regular verbs.
So, now let's move on to the irregular verbs and here's a picture of three rather crazy
looking fellas 'go', 'put' and 'break' are all very irregular. First of all 'put', we'll
take the 'put' (you can guess which one it is, going to have to be that one). The thing
about that is that the past tense of 'put' is the same as the present tense so you can't
tell whether it's past or present from the verb form. And the next one 'break' hasn't
got the past tense 'break' but a past tense 'broke', so I'll just put 'broke' over there. And
finally the last one 'go' doesn't even have a past tense so it uses the past tense of
another verb 'to wend' and we've got 'went' so there we go, those are the three I've put
in the picture.
Now a couple of things I want to say about that, the first thing, the good news, I'll
just write here '180 grand total' (roughly 180) irregular verbs so it's not that many
and in fact, of those, quite a few are not so common but about 100 or so are what I would
call fairly common. And of those I've chosen 36 which I see as very common and I divided
them into three sets of 12 each. So in this video you're going to get a chance to look
at the first set of 12, and here we go, let's move on to scene 2.
You're going to see the twelve verbs in three groups, here's the first group and I'm going
to just work through the group first of all and then I'm going to get you to repeat them.
So first of all 'begin' becomes 'began', now this is the same group so you can sort of
guess that 'sit' will become 'sat' (just a change of the vowel) and 'drink' becomes 'drank',
not 'drunk' 'drank' and the last one 'sing' becomes 'sang'. Now I want you to repeat them
all after me so I'm going to say 'begin'/'began' and so on all the way through the group and
you take the opportunity, if you want to, to repeat the word after me. So, here we go:
'begin'.......'began', 'sit'.........'sat', 'drink.........'drank', 'sing'.......'sang'.
Now let's move on to the next group and here they are 'leave' 'left', notice you've got
a vowel change 'ea' to 'e' and also there's a 't' sound on the end. So let me write them
in, 'sleep' becomes 'slept' so you can guess that 'feel' becomes 'felt', notice the spelling
changes too and 'mean' becomes 'meant', that's a bit of a funny one because there is no spelling
change. Now just like the first group I'm going to read through them and invite you
to repeat them after me, here we go: 'leave'.........'left', 'sleep'.........'slept', 'feel'..........'felt',
'mean'.........'meant'. Now if you want to do them again just run the video back a little
bit and do them again.
Right let's move on to the third group and here it is. You notice here immediately that
'cut' and 'cut' are the same so I'll just run through them 'cut' and 'cut', 'put' 'put',
I'll just put a tick there; 'cost' ;cost', there's a tick, 'shut' 'shut', they're all
the same. Now I'm going to repeat them so you can have a chance to repeat them after
me: 'cut'......'cut', 'put'.......'put', 'cost'.......'cost', 'shut'.......'shut'. So that's the end of
the first three sets of irregular verbs, now there are two more videos where you can find
plenty more, another 24 altogether. Now if you want to run back and do scene 2 again
just click on 'scene 2' up on the right hand corner and that'll take you back to the beginning
of this and you can just run them through again. All right, that's all, bye for now!