A selection of English ESL irregular verbs game printables

A board for revising irregular verbs through a game of draughts.



You will need 12 pieces for each of the players (different colours for each of them). Students play a normal game of draughts (8x8 version), but to put their piece on a given square, they have to provide the Past Simple and Past Participle of the verb in that square.



If my suggestions for the verbs do not correspond with the list you have asked your students to memorise, feel free to make changes to the board. The handout is fully editable.



Note: the exercise can be rather time-consuming.

Irregular Verbs Game - Draughts or Checkers

games for teaching irregular verbs

English-Hebrew 

game1- memory game that needs to be cut

game2- put a line between the original verb to its past simple (irregular verb)

game 3- complete the past simple word in each flashcard 

game 4- 

Irregular Verb Games & Charts - For Hebrew Speakers

Boardgame for students, we like using it at school, very good for english lessons, I hope you will enjoy it, my students like this game very much. Enjoy it, good fun :)

Speed Irregular Verb Game - Follow the Arrows

There are 98 verbs. You can either give a jar to each student or form teams of two for each jar. The student takes a jelly bean out of the sack and gives three forms of the verb on it. (You can also have them say a sentence in past simple or present perfect). The aim is to fill your jar first or to have the most beans in the end. 

Jelly Beans - Fill 5 Jars - Irregular Verbs Game

A very simple game to revise nearly all  irregular verbs either in a chain in class or in groups as a competition. It can be more difficult if you ask your students to make up sentences with them.(I have ws as Tmk939 on ESLPrintables.com). Thank you!!!!

Irregular Verbs Game - Name The Past Tense and Participle

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

Nice way to learn Verbs especially verb 1 and verb 2.

children just match the verb one and the verb two.

This game has 36 cards and can be played in 3 or 4 groups 

Correction: mistype verb 2 ring should be rang not rung

Verb Dominoes Irregular Verb 2

Irregular verbs matching Verbs Game. This worksheet helps you learn English irregular verbs. Perfect for young and adult students. Easily master irregular verbs.

Irregular verbs matching Verbs Game. (free game available on Google Play store)

Explore a visual list of irregular verbs with engaging pictures to enhance learning. Identify and discuss the past simple and past participle forms for each verb.

Irregular Verbs List With Pictures

Useful to practise irregular verbs, ss can make ss, guess...This set contains 23 cards and the back of the cards is also included. This can be a game in pairs on in teams.

23 Irregular Verb Cards

Print, cut, fix the small piece in the center of the wheel using a pin. Spin it and the student makes up an original sentence (interrogative, affirmative or negative) in the tense you want to practice. You can replace the verbs – it’s editable.

Verb Tenses Wheel

This is a board game for students.

They have to answer the questions on the squares in the past tense. 

The students will need to know how to respond with a positive and negative sentence for some of the questions and will need to know a few past verbs (regular and irregular). 

please check for spelling errors ;)

Boardgame - Past Tense Questions

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)

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

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

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

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121 Irregular verbs game English ESL worksheets pdf & doc