Here are the corrections:
Last year I ate school dinners and went to after school club.
We will go into the hall tomorrow for our fitness session with Mrs Perkins.
The verbs "eat" and "go" were irregular verbs used incorrectly. "Ate" and "went" are the correct past tense forms. "Yesterday" was changed to "tomorrow" as the sentence was written in the future tense. Good proofreading skills help improve writing by catching errors in verb forms and other parts of speech.
Here are the corrections:
Last year I ate school dinners and went to after school club.
We will go into the hall tomorrow for our fitness session with Mrs Perkins.
The verbs "eat" and "go" were irregular verbs used incorrectly. "Ate" and "went" are the correct past tense forms. "Yesterday" was changed to "tomorrow" as the sentence was written in the future tense. Good proofreading skills help improve writing by catching errors in verb forms and other parts of speech.
Here are the corrections:
Last year I ate school dinners and went to after school club.
We will go into the hall tomorrow for our fitness session with Mrs Perkins.
The verbs "eat" and "go" were irregular verbs used incorrectly. "Ate" and "went" are the correct past tense forms. "Yesterday" was changed to "tomorrow" as the sentence was written in the future tense. Good proofreading skills help improve writing by catching errors in verb forms and other parts of speech.
Here are the corrections:
Last year I ate school dinners and went to after school club.
We will go into the hall tomorrow for our fitness session with Mrs Perkins.
The verbs "eat" and "go" were irregular verbs used incorrectly. "Ate" and "went" are the correct past tense forms. "Yesterday" was changed to "tomorrow" as the sentence was written in the future tense. Good proofreading skills help improve writing by catching errors in verb forms and other parts of speech.
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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 happy
jump pig
One way to check
sit if a word is a verb cup 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. Which word in each
sentence changes? They jump the rope.
Bob looks at the bug.
I play football.
How have the verbs changed?
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 walked jump jumped look looked play 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 hopped skip skipped bat batted tap tapped Similar words. Different rules
tap/ tape hop/ hope I always tape my favourite TV shows.
We hope we win the race.
hope hoped tape 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 tried cry cried fry fried carry 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 married cook cooked hug hugged try tried play played stop stopped spy spied jump jumped grab grabbed
Change y to i then Most words= Double the final
add ed Add ed consonant and add ed
save saved fix fixed
bake baked mix mixed tape taped box boxed 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.
wait waited pack packed stop stopped pot potted try tried marry married keep 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 blew meet met feed fed grow grew throw 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?
