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I, like all English language teachers, spend a lot of time on irregular past tense verbs. Conversely, I’ve generally spent very little time on regular past tense verbs. This wasn’t a huge problem, until I started paying closer attention to my students’ pronunciation of them. Learning how to properly pronounce the ending of regular past tense verbs takes time and practice. This game allows students to practice forming regular past tense verbs and pronouncing them. (For the purposes of this game, I am considering all verbs needing either a –d or –ed added to the end as regular. Some would also require changing a y to an i or doubling a consonant, but writing the verbs is not the focus of this game.) My students have always loved fishing for contractions, so I decided to make a version of it to practice pronouncing regular past tense verbs! This game includes 290 different verbs, so you can adjust the length of play by choosing how many cards to include in each round. You can play the game with just the cards but it’s much cooler if you make your own fishing pond! To make the ponds I took empty oatmeal containers and spray painted them blue. I then used leftover paint, and my very limited painting abilities, to paint sand, fish, and seaweed.
To play the game:
1. Print and laminate the cards. (I recommend cold lamination as it’s thicker and doesn’t peel after being cut through.) Cut the cards apart.
2. Mix the cards and place them into some type of container (the ponds you create, a bowl, a box, etc.) or place them upside down on the table.
3. The first student draws a card and, depending on the level of play, either states the past tense form of the verb or makes a sentence using the past tense form of the verb. He/she then states whether the –ed ending is pronounced as /t/, /d/, or /id/.
4. If the student’s response is correct (there’s an answer chart included for reference, if needed), he/she keeps the card and it becomes part of his/her catch. If he/she is not correct, the card is returned to the pond.
5. If a student draws out a shark card, the shark and all of the student’s caught fish (his/her catch pile) go into the discard pile. (There are 10 shark cards included, you can adjust the difficulty of the game by adjusting how many sharks are included in each pond.)
6. When no fish are left in the pond the student with the most fish in his/her catch pile is the winner.
For more practice with the pronunciation of the regular past tense -d/-ed ending, see these free games:
