5 Irregular verbs

1 a Match words/phrases 16 and 712 to words/phrases af and gl.

1 I know a to work/university every day. 7 I sometimes send g films in English very well.
2 I never eat b some irregular verbs in 8 I usually wear h birthday presents to my friends.
3 I dont make English. 9 I dont understand i English with my friends.
4 I drink c the newspaper every day. 10 I always give j on clothes every month.
5 I drive d red meat. 11 I spend a lot of money k jeans when Im at home.
6 I read e two litres of water every day. 12 I sometimes speak l emails to people in other
f many mistakes when I write countries.
in English.
b Tick the sentences in 1a that are true for you.

VOCABULARY pLUS:
2 Write the Past Simple forms of the irregular verbs in bold in 1a in your notebook.
You can use the Irregular Verb List (Students Book p167) to help you.

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know knew
a
3 a Read Jennifers email to her friend Angelica about her weekend.
Put pictures ad in the order she did them.

To angelica.matthews@gomail.com

b
Hi Angelica
How are you? It was Carloss birthday on Saturday and we had a big party
for him at my flat. My sister and I 1 spent all afternoon cleaning and then we
2 lots of food for the party. Carlos didnt 3 about it,
so it was a big surprise for him! There were about fifty people there and I
4 my favourite dress you know, the long blue one. Everyone
5 Carlos cards and presents, and it was a very special evening c
for him, I think. On Sunday Carlos and I 6 to his parents
house for lunch in his new car. The food was fantastic and I 7
too much as usual! His parents are Argentinian, as you know, and all his family
8 Spanish at the table I didnt 9 very much! Then
I just sat in the garden, 10 a glass of wine and 11 my
book. It was a great weekend.
Write soon!
d
Love
Jennifer
PS Did you 12 me an email last week? I didnt get one!

b Read the email again. Fill in the gaps with the infinitive or the Past Simple of the verbs in bold in 1a.

4 wore 5 gave 6 drove 7 ate 8 spoke 9 understand 10 drank 11 read 12 send

wear, wore; understand, understood; give, gave; spend, spent; speak, spoke 3 a a4 b2 c1 d3 3 b 2 made 3 know
1 2d 3f 4e 5a 6c 7l 8k 9g 10h 11j 12i 2 eat, ate; make, made; drink, drank; drive, drove; read, read; send, sent;

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