Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my channel Sparkle English, where I teach you how to improve
your level of English. In today's lesson, I'm going to teach you the 70 most common irregular
verbs in English in the past simple form. I will teach you what these verbs are, how to pronounce
them, and also give you some examples of how to use these words in sentences. At the end of the
video, there will be a 10 question quiz. So let's get started. So when do we use the past simple?
We use the past simple when we are talking about something that happened in the past.
We use the past simple with finished actions, states or habits. So the present is right now,
and the past is something that is finished and has already happened. So with most regular verbs,
we add ED, for example, work becomes worked, talk becomes talked. However, there are many different
irregular verbs that you must memorize in English. For example, I went. The infinitive is go, but in
English, we don't say I "goed" to the cinema last night, we have to say I went to the cinema last
night. So we are going to review the 70 most common irregular verbs in alphabetical order.
Okay, so let's begin. And we're going to start with B and C, I want you to repeat after me,
be is the infinitive. And in the past simple was or were. Become, became, begin, began,
break, broke, bring, brought, build, built, buy, bought, catch, caught, choose, chose, come,
came, cost, cost, cut, cut. So you can see that cost and cut, they do not change. They stay the
same. And you can also hear the pronunciation of some of these words: brought. It has a short ot
sound, or bought, caught. Now let's look at a few of these words. In example sentences. They broke
the window. I brought ham and cheese to the party. He came home last night. I want you to write
two sentences choosing any of these verbs in the past simple. Okay, so let's move
on to the irregular verbs from D to F. Again repeat after me: do, did, draw, drew, dream,
dreamt. For this verb you can either write it with a T or as a regular verb with ED. Drink, drank,
drive, drove, eat, ate, fall, fell, feel, felt, fight, fought, fly, flew,
forget, forgot. The word ate is a homophone and is pronounced the same as the number eight. Again,
we have another word here, fought, which has that same ot with a short o sound. Now let's look at
some example sentences. We drove around town. She ate pizza for dinner. He fell off his bicycle.
Now let's look at the most common verbs from G to l and repeat after me. Get, got, give, gave,
go, went, have, had, hear, heard, hit, hit, hold, held, keep, kept, know, knew.
You can see that hit and hit are the same in the infinitive form and in the past simple. And the
verb knew is pronounced the same as the adjective new. It is a homophone. Now let's look at the L
irregular verbs. Lead, led, learn, learnt or learned, leave, left, lend, lent, let, let,
lie, lay, lose, lost. Again here we have learnt which can be either irregular with the T or
regular if you choose to add it with an ED. And let and let are the same in both the base form and
in the past simple. Now, let's look at some sentence examples. The boy got a new video game.
They had a great time at the party. Dad lost his car keys. Okay, now the irregular verbs
from M to S. Repeat after me: make, made, mean, meant, meet, met, pay, paid, put, put,
read, read, ride, rode, run, ran, say, said, see, saw, sell, sold, send, sent.
Here you can see that put and put are the same in the infinitive and past simple form. However,
read and read are spelt the same. However, in the past simple it is pronounced as RED like the color
red. I read a book last night. So, in the past simple we have to pronounce it differently. Okay,
shut, shut. Sing, sang, sit, sat, sleep, slept, speak, spoke, spell, spelt, spend,
spent, stand, stood, steal, stole, swim, swam. Again shut and shut are the same in the infinitive
and past simple form. And let's look at some examples. Mom made a cake for dessert.
I met my friends for coffee. Tony swam in the sea. Okay now, from T to W.
This is the last list. Take, took. Teach, taught, tell, told. Think, thought, throw, threw,
understand, understood. Wake, woke. Wear, wore. Win, won. Write, wrote. Okay? So
taught again with this "ot". It's an "ot" sound. Taught, the short o.
And the same with thought. Ought makes an ought sound: thought. Let's look at some examples.
Mrs. Smith taught the students. I understood the science lesson. He wrote her a love song.
So now we are going to have a 10 question quiz. In my next video I will do a longer quiz.
But in this video we are just going to focus on 10 different irregular verbs. So you have to put
the verb in the past simple form. Number one, Brad _____ a basketball player five years ago.
Number two, we _____ drinks and snacks for the picnic.
Number three, the hairstylist _____ my hair yesterday. Number four,
the girl _____ a picture for her mom. Number five, the student _____ to do his homework.
Number six, my parents _____ us gift cards for Christmas. Number seven, she _____ the loud music
through the wall. Number eight, they _____ coffee in the afternoon.
Number nine, Taylor _____ his car to his best friend. And finally number 10:
I _____ up early to go to the airport. Okay, so now we're going to correct these together.
Number one, Brad was a basketball player five years ago. Remember with the verb to be,
can either be was or were, but with he, she and it and I, we use was. Number two.
We bought drinks and snacks for the picnic. Number three, and this one it stays the same.
The hairstylist cut my hair yesterday. Cut in the past simple is the same. It's spelt the same way.
Number four, the girl drew a picture for her mom. Number five, the student forgot to do
his homework. Number six, my parents gave us gift cards for Christmas. Number seven, she heard the
loud music through the wall. Number eight, they drank, with a, drank coffee in the afternoon.
Number nine, Taylor sold his car to his best friend. And finally number 10: I woke up early
to go to the airport. Okay, so let me know in the comments section how many you got correct
out of 10. Irregular verbs are very frustrating sometimes because you do have to memorize them.
I recommend you start by memorizing each list at a time. Start memorizing them in small sections,
and move on to the next list once you've memorized the first list. So go back and watch this video
as many times as you need to memorize how to pronounce the irregular verbs in the past simple.
In my next video, we will do a longer quiz on these irregular verbs. Make sure
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