The mystery of the irregular verbs solved in a hip-hop song

Irregular verbs are like sneaky words that don't follow the usual past tense rules! Instead of just adding "-ed" like most verbs, they change their form in a special way. Think of them as a little mystery to solve when you're talking about something that happened in the past. Take a look at this teacher's hip-hop song that he uses to teach the irregulars to his students!

You can sing along, if you wish! 

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This cool teacher is Fluency MC on YouTube.

If you want to know more, check out the British Council website here!


Learning past tense verbs involves a lot of repetition and memorisation, but learning by pattern makes it easier!

Irregular past tense verbs are much more difficult and don’t have a clear explanation for their verb patterns. Below are the most common irregular verb forms.


unchanged: cut, put, quit, burst, hit, shut, bet, hurt, let

-ought/-aught: taught, brought, caught, bought, fought

-ang/-ung: rang, sang, hang, swung

-ew: blew, grew, knew, flew, drew, threw

-t: slept, felt, left, spent, met, spent, kept, swept

long /o/: spoke, drove, woke, broke, awoke, wrote


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