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Irregular Verbs in English

These 50 verbs in this order represent an incredible 87% of irregular verb occurence in English!


This is an irregular verb list a little unlike those you could easily get hold of at your own school. They are listed in order of how often they appear in real English as shown by the famous Lancaster-Bergen corpus. These 50 in this order represent an incredible 87% of irregular verb occurence in English. The other 80 irregular verbs in English make up the other 13%. If you tell your students that learning by heart merely the first eleven will equip them to deal with fully 50% of the usage of irregulars in English, they may react very positively.



Rank Base Form Past Tense Form Past Participle
1 say said said
2 make made made
3 go went gone
4 take took taken
5 come came come
6 see saw seen
7 know knew known
8 get got got/gotten (US)
9 give gave given
10 find found found
11 think thought thought
12 tell told told
13 become became become
14 show showed shown
15 leave left left
16 feel felt felt
17 put put put
18 bring brought brought
19 begin began begun
20 keep kept kept
21 hold held held
22 write wrote written
23 stand stood stood
24 hear heard heard
25 let let let
26 mean meant meant
27 set set set
28 meet met met
29 run ran run
30 pay paid paid
31 sit sat sat
32 speak spoke spoken
33 lie lay lain
34 lead led led
35 read read read
36 grow grew grown
37 lose lost lost
38 fall fell fallen
39 send sent sent
40 build built built
41 understand understood understood
42 draw drew drawn
43 break broke broken
44 spend spent spent
45 cut cut cut
46 rise rose risen
47 drive drove driven
48 buy bought bought
49 wear wore worn
50 choose chose chosen

Riddles

A man is going towards a field. He knows he will die when he gets there. What is the situation?

Quite simple - his parachute has failed!

Mr. Johnson lives in an apartment on the 30th floor of an apartment block with 30 floors. He is 39 years old, single and works in the local bank. Every morning, he leaves his apartment at 8 a.m. He gets into the lift and goes down the 30 floors to the street and goes to work. In the evening when he returns, he gets into the lift, goes up to the 10th floor, gets out and walks up 20 floors of stairs. On rainy days, he gets into the lift, goes up to the 20th floor, gets out and walks up the remaining 10 floors using the stairs. Mr. Johnson hates using the stairs. Explain.

Mr. Johnson is very short and can't reach all the buttons in the lift. On rainy days, he has his umbrella with him and can therefore reach ten buttons higher.

A man is found dead in the desert. He's naked, there is no trace of footsteps nearby, and the only thing he's got in his hand is a little piece of wood. How did he get there?

The man was on a baloon trip with some friends over the desert and suddenly, the balloon started to go do down: they were too heavy and there wasn't enough gas to complete their journey, so they decided to lighten the balloon by throwing their clothes over board. But still that wasn't enough so they brought themselves to draw lots to know who would jump over board. Eventually this poor man lost the game, jumped naked over board and died!

Mystery Death
David Jones was found dead last week in a telephone box on Filbert Street. Dressed in green boots, police said he had died of blood loss. The telephone receiver was found hanging down from the phone and someone on the other end was shouting "Dave, are you there? What were you saying?"

David Jones is a fisherman and was explaining to his friend how large a fish he had caught. So, as most fishermen do, he spread his arms wide and put his arms through the glass sides of the phone box.

A woman walked into a bar and asked for a glass of water. The barman pulled out a gun and pointed it at the woman. The woman thanked the man and left the bar. Why?

The woman had hiccups and wanted a drink of water to stop them. The barman had a better idea to stop them and decided to frighten her instead. It worked and the woman was pleased.

A father and son were involved in a car accident. The father was trapped in the car and the son was taken to a nearby hospital. As the ambulance pulled up, a doctor in the hospital rushed out to look at the new arrival and shouted "Oh I don't believe it!! That's my son!". How is it possible?

Simple one which may not work at all - it may depend on where you are teaching. The doctor in the hospital is a woman, the boy's mother.

Got any more? e-mail me .

Proverbs Which Contradict



All good things come to those who wait BUT Time and tide wait for no man
Birds of a feather flock together BUT Opposites attract
Absence makes the heart grow fonder BUT Out of sight, Out of mind
Clothes make the man BUT Never judge a book by its cover
Don't cross your bridges before you come to them BUT Forewarned is forearmed
Good things come in small packages BUT The bigger the better
Great starts make great finishes BUT It ain't over 'till it's over
He who hesitates is lost BUT Act in haste, Repent at leisure
Practice makes perfect BUT All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Silence is golden BUT The squeaky wheel gets the grease
The pen is mightier than the sword BUT Actions speak louder than words
You're never too old to learn BUT You can't teach an old dog new tricks
What's good for the goose is good for the gander BUT One man's meat is another man's poison
Wise men think alike BUT Fools seldom differ


Easter Wordsearch



Find the following Easter words in the grid.

holy
spring
church
eggs
Sunday 		bunny
lamb
chick
easter
April


s p r i n g u i
o p c h u r c h
s u n d a y u o
c l e w q a s l
h a a p r i l y
i m e a s t e r
c b u n n y g h
k k l p e g g s

Dictionary Use Worksheet.


Find the following information:

1. Where do you wear Wellington Boots ?

2. When is Boxing Day ?

3. What is the name of a young cat ?

4. There are two opposites to old . What are they?

5. On a car , what is the name of the window at the front?

6. Is cargo a noun, verb or adjective?

7. Do you give, make or take an exam ?

8. Which is correct, 'how much music ' or 'how many musics '?

9. What is the past of spend ?

10. What is the plural of wife ? Is it regular?

11. Is the pronunciation of break and brake the same or different?

12. Which syllable of Japan is stressed? The first or the second?

13. How many vowel sounds are there in English?

14. Can we use an before a consonant? And a before a vowel?

15. How do you say this date: 5 August 1969?

16. What is the nationality of someone from Iraq ?



Tom's Diner    Suzanne Vega

(A song. Good for Present Continuous (Progressive) studies.)


I am sitting
In the morning
At the diner
On the corner

I am waiting
At the counter
For the man
To pour the coffee

And he fills it
Only halfway
And before
I even argue

He is looking
Out the window
At somebody
Coming in

"It is always
Nice to see you"
Says the man
Behind the counter

To the woman
Who has come in
She is shaking
Her umbrella

And I look
The other way
As they are kissing
Their hellos

I'm pretending
Not to see them
Instead
I pour the milk

I open
Up the paper
There's a story
Of an actor

Who had died
While he was drinking
It was no one
I had heard of

And I'm turning
To the horoscope
And looking
For the funnies

When I'm feeling
Someone watching me
And so
I raise my head

There's a woman
On the outside
Looking inside
Does she see me?

No she does not
Really see me
Cause she sees
Her own reflection

And I'm trying
Not to notice
That she's hitching
Up her skirt

And while she's
Straightening her stockings
Her hair
Is getting wet

Oh, this rain
It will continue
Through the morning
As I'm listening

To the bells
Of the cathedral
I am thinking
Of your voice...

And of the midnight picnic
Once upon a time
Before the rain began...

I finish up my coffee
It's time to catch the train


Past Simple: Pronunciation of Regulars

Choose one of the three columns to put each verb into.

For example:

Worked /t/
Loved /d/
Wanted / Id/

Here are the regular past verbs.

Like
Walk
Look
Listen
Talk
Chat
Arrive
Travel 		Wash
Play
Try
Pay
Paint
Study
Dance
Pick 		Live
Watch
Enjoy
Jump
Faint
Borrow
Wade
Touch


Now classify the verbs into one of these three columns.


/t/ /d/ / Id/


























IPA Phonetic Chart



Consonants

h ot -h

s it -s

t ell -t

m an -m

n ut -n

d ig -d

k ing -k

l it -l

b ut -b

f ig -f

y es -j

j ust -j

sh ut -sh

th ink -th

o th er -th

vi si on -zh

ch at -ch

g et -g

p et -p

r un -r

v et -v

w in -w

si ng -ng

z en -z

 Vowels

b ai t -ai

f a ther -ar

b a t -a

w ear -air

b eer -eer

f ee t -ea

b i rd -ir

w e t -e

b i te -ai

b oa t -oa

f oo d -ooo

f oo t -oo

h o t -o

b ou ght -or

ab ou t -ou

b oy -oy

h u t -u

p i g -i

a pply -schwa

p ur e -pure


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