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Help memorizing irregular verbs
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Kita19
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Help memorizing irregular verbs
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Hello!
I have a private student who is struggling to memorize the list of irregular verbs (infinitive/past/past participle)... he can say some, but it �s far from being ideal, because he doesn �t know the most of them... how can I help him memorizing them? Do you have any good tips?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Greetings from Portugal,
Patricia
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20 Apr 2013
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stryc.fido
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oh, that is a problem even my B1 (pre-intermediate) learners have ... what we do is a lot of drilling. I know this method is now a bit old-fashioned but it works.
to memorise the individual verbs better it is useful to rememer them in a simple sentence, link it with a picture, etc. - in other words - use mnemonics. You as the teacher, or he can even mime the verb if it is an activity ... to link it with the movement in the memory.
and drill and drill .....
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20 Apr 2013
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mariobmoreno
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Hi Patricia! Well, I don �t know how many verbs does your list comprise, but here you have the following tips: 1) group the verbs by similarity: fly flew flown draw drew drawn bring brought brought buy bought bought catch caught caught ring rang rung swim swam swum 2) make test every 20 or 25 verbs (depending on the "members" of each group). 3) make your student write a couple of sentences with each verb abd verbal form. I hope my advices are useful. Regards, Mario. |
20 Apr 2013
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Peter Hardy
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Yeap, the above answers (grouped lists and drilling) combined works for my students. And as there are too many words to learn all at once, we do ten a day. Just as a general rule, with ten new words a day you �ll build a word-knowledge of 3600 words over the year. That �s more than the average native child speaker. After two years you have the word-knowledge of an average adult!
Keep up the good work. Cheers.
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20 Apr 2013
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marie.marron
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What I �d suggest you, as I always do, is to play games! The most effective one for my students is the memory (match the infinitive with a past or participle), than you can use different board games, dominoes or bingo. For more ideas, you can take a look at these here.
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21 Apr 2013
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