A selection of English ESL irregular verbs printables

This gap filling activity allows for building up skills in using five most commonly used irregular verbs through completing five short question - answer exchanges. These short dialogues can be role-played by learners. Answer sheet is included.



This resource can be used on it's own or (recommended) as a follow up activity for "We Go In For Sport Every Day: Irregular Verbs" - another worksheet from my collection.



On my page you can also find a set of cut-up matching cards with the target irregular verbs: these can be used either as a warming up / revising activity before working on the worksheet, or as a recap in the end of the lesson.



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We Go In For Sport Every Day: Irregular Verbs Gap Fill

Each group of words have a one that doesn't belong to it. The one that doesn't belong is a regular verb. This game will show which students can recognize the irregular verbs.

Tricky Odd One Out - Cross Out Regular Verb From Irregular Verbs

Drill using six commonly used irregular verbs through matching, reading and writing activities. The tasks are built around a short story telling about a person's weekly routine. Includes three pages: full color learner page;  black-and-white learner page; keys page.

We Go In For Sport Every Day: Using Irregular Verbs / Proofreading

Second part of the worksheets for practicing Irregular verb conjugations and Collocations Exercises. Key for the exercise is given. Students enjoy filling in missing letters and at the same time review the verbs.

Irregular Verbs # 2 - Fill In Missing Letter - Match Words to Picture

Fourth of the worksheets containing irregular verb conjugation and collocation exercises. Key is given for the exercises. Another fun review of irregular verbs tat students might find useful.

Irregular Verbs # 4 - Fill In Missing Letters - Match Verb to Picture

This is the last of the worksheets containing irregular verb conjugation and collocation exercises. Key is given for the exercises. Each one of these worksheets is very useful.

Irregular Verbs # 5 - Fill In Missing Letters - Match Verb To Picture

Practice Exercise for Irregular past tense verbs. Ss can work on the worksheet together and then go over the answers in pairs or as a class.

Put into the Past Tense - Practice Irregular Verbs in the Past

This worksheet demands students rewrite the sentences with the proper verb form and grammatical structure for the appropriate tense (Past Simple or Present Perfect).  The students should already have been taught the verb forms and the two grammatical tenses, this worksheet serves as extra practice to help with memorization.

A1/A2 Irregular Verb Forms Past Simple vs Present Perfect Practice

Nice and colourful worksheet to repeat different forms of verbs. Funny images will make it easy to remember the meaning.

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Grammar Check Up - From Arise to Buy - Irregular Verbs Fill In

A very complete master list of the most common irregular verbs in English, divided by category for vowel changes, d to t ending changes (bend -> bent) etc. 


Spanish translations are included! 


A great resource to give to students for reference or to serve as the basis of an activity where they need to organize verbs. Learning categories is a much less daunting way to approach irregular past verbs and helps to make connections with the material.

Irregular verb master list (present, past, and participles) - divided into categories

The cards with the pictures, all 3 forms of the verbs and example sentence(s) translated into Czech. Fully editable. 

I've prepared them for the past simple teaching so there are only few sentences with the 3rd form.

It is possible to use them for several activities.

1) students' self study 

2) a pair game - mix cards and make a pile, pictures up. The top card is for the fastest student who says correctly all 3 forms of the verb. It is also possible to play with a group of 3 or 4. At the end they count their cards.

3) similar as 2) but they must use the past form in a correct sentence.

4) all the students stand up, the teacher ask them one by one. Correct answer = sit down, incorrent = stay, after asking all of them, next round.

5 Pages of Irregular Verb Cards - For Self Study or Classroom Games

The objective of this worksheet is to train 300 forms of irregular verbs. Some of the verbs appear several times with different prefixes which helps to train them thoroughly. It's for inermediate or upper intermediate level. 

Do you Know 300 Irregular Verbs - 8 Pages - Try to Prove It

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

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Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

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A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

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A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

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Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

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The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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