One more game! ^^

I have just found this awesome game. It's a flash minigame, and can be used as a practice for your irregular past forms lessons. Just pick the right form of past tense for the verb given, and each correct answer will fuel the rocket. Go and launch your rocket now!

It also provides you with the usage of the word.

Once the fuel gauge are full, the rocket will take off!

I'm really hoping that these games will make you more interested in learning grammar and doing exercises. Go try them now!

Homework ^^

Time to have some practice! On the last entry I did write about the irregular forms of past tenses. Here are my suggestions for the exercises that you might want to do on this topic.

If you are looking for questions that you can answer and get corrected on the spot, you can try these link

• grammar.cl
• eflnet.com

If you want exercises that you can print and show to your teacher, try downloading these exercises.

• Irregular verbs practice 1
• Irregular verbs practice 2
• Irregular verbs practice 3
• Irregular verbs practice 4
• Irregular verbs practice 5
• Irregular verbs practice 6

You can also download these word search games

• word search 1
• word search 2
• word search 3

Credit to http://bogglesworldesl.com for making these excellent exercises.

Having 'fryed' fish for lunch

I just had my lunch. It is the end of the semester, so I cannot afford to buy cooked food anymore. Earlier this morning I bought some vegetables and other things to cook. I end up with this.

yum yum! ^^

My friend was so impressed, he took a picture and upload it on his Facebook page. But when I saw the comments, I was a bit appalled to see one of the comment - " Wow, so luxurious! We only eat rice with fryed fish." I did not know whether it was a typo or not, but the past tense for 'fry' is not 'fryed'. It is 'fried', as in Kentucky Fried Chicken.

So I decided I should touch a bit on the irregular forms of past tense. However, I don't feel like explaining this to you, so I'll just show you a video.

You can also follow this link to watch this video with the transcription. about.com

So from the video, we can see that regular past tense verbs always end with ed, while the irregular past tense verbs need to be studied individually.

Here are some of the words and their past tense.

Verb	Past Simple

arise

arose

bend

bent

bind

bound

choose

chose

forbid

forbade

hold

held

shine

shone

shake

shook

tear

tore

swing

swung

You can search the web for more examples. Just remember not to add ed to all your verbs to show past tense.^^