Irregular Verbs Magic Square

Use this activity after you have taught the concept of irregular verbs to check student understanding or to give your students more practice.

This Magic Square includes the following irregular verbs:

Magic Square #1
1. rise/rose
2. throw/threw
3. have/had
4. give/gave
5. awake/awoke
6. went/go
7. swung/swing
8. blow/blew
9. know/knew
10. hid/hide
11. be/was
12. dig/dug
13. cut/cut
14. thought/think
15. tell/told
16. were/be
17. bit/bite
18. creep/crept
19. hit/hit
20. told/tell
21. bent/bend
22. lit/light
23. bleed/bled
24. lay/laid

Magic Square #2
1. choose/chose
2. spin/spun
3. sit/sat
4. do/did
5. teach/taught
6. shoot/shot
7. met/meet
8. strike/struck
9. feel/felt
10. bring/brought
11. kept/keep
12. rise/rose
13. sped/speed
14. drew/draw
15. ride/rode
16. beat/beat
17. see/saw
18. stick/stuck
19. write/wrote
20. break/broke
21. showed/show
22. hurt/hurt
23. stick/stuck
24. hold/held

Magic Square #3
1. drink/drank
2. overhear/overheard
3. go/went
4. make/made
5. leave/left
6. became/become
7. wake/woke
8. built/build
9. sold/sell
10. sing/sang
11. get/got
12. caught/catch
13. give/gave
14. fall/fell
15. find/found
16. fight/fought
17. buy/bought
18. paid/pay
19. feed/fed
20. drove/drive
21. sent/send
22. overtook/overtake
23. flee/fled
24. grew/grow

Magic Square #4
1. freeze/froze
2. spend/spent
3. lose/lost
4. string/strung
5. foresee/foresaw
6. win/won
7. overdraw/overdrew
8. spoke/speak
9. ate/eat
10. cling/clung
11. lend/lent
12. breed/bred
13. understand/understood
14. hear/heard
15. hold/held
16. slid/slide
17. swear/swore
18. fly/flew
19. mislead/misled
20. came/come
21. lie/lay
22. read/read
23. weep/wept
24. deal/dealt

Magic Square #5
1. take/took
2. mean/meant
3. sink/sank
4. shrink/shrank
5. wore/wear
6. split/split
7. dove/dive
8. forget/forgot
9. mistake/mistook
10. burst/burst
11. wound/wind
12. bust/bust
13. ran/run
14. ring/rang
15. say/said
16. swim/swam
17. seek/sought
18. bound/bind
19. put/put
20. begin/began
21. shod/shoe
22. lead/led
23. shone/shine
24. shake/shook

**There are five different magic squares with this unit!**
**Each magic square requires students to match 24 irregular verbs!**

**Please note that there are purposely words to try and trick your students! Such as cut/cutted, creep/creeped, ride/rided, and many more.

Preparation and Storage: You will need to print off the number of copies you need. (I recommend printing them on cardstock and laminating them.) I have used these as individual work, partner work, and small group work. They also work well for students who finish early or for use during center time. Cut the magic squares out and put them into plastic baggies for students' use. I put each set in its own plastic baggie. Then I put all of these baggies and one original sheet in a manila envelope with the name of the activity on the front. This way I have the answer key and all materials readily available.

Directions to Play: Give students the cut-up magic square sheet. Tell them they need to put the square back together. The first time you have the students complete one of these, I suggest drawing out a 4x4 square on the board so they understand what it should look like. You can also give them the hint (because I have found some do not figure this out!) that the letters will all be facing the correct direction.

Correcting Student Work: To easily check a student's completed work, keep an original copy of the magic square sheet they are working on. This way you can immediately check to see if the letters are in the correct order or not.

Thank you for looking!
~HoJo~