Unit 12: Fashion forward
Active and passive voice
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- 1Pop-ups
- 2Hidden talents
- 3Can't buy me love
- 4Travellers' tales
- 5The colleague from hell
- 6Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
- 7Career changes
- 8Art
- 9Project management
- 10The dog ate my homework!
- 11The diary of a double agent
- 12Fashion forward
- 13Flat pack skyscrapers
- 14Extreme sports
- 15Food fads
- 16Me, my selfie and I
- 17Endangered animals
- 18A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
- 19I'm really sorry...
- 20Telling stories
- 21Fakes and phrasals
- 22Looking to the future
- 23Becoming familiar with things
- 24From rags to riches
- 25Against the odds
- 26Our future on Mars?
- 27Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
- 28Dodgy dating
- 29Annoying advice
- 30I'll have been studying English for thirty weeks
Session 1
Eat, ate, eaten... Verbs in English don't always follow the -ed pattern, so we're focussing on irregular verbs in this session. Listen to 6 Minute Vocabulary, and then do some activities to show off your verb skills!
Activity 2
Are you irregular?
Quiz time
In Activity 1 we looked at irregular verbs with different numbers of forms. In this activity and the next one, we're going to do two tests. The first one checks your general understanding of these irregular verbs, and in the second one you're going to use them in a conversation.
To do
Try this activity to see how much you understand about these irregular verbs.
ፅሁፉን ያንብቡና ቀጣዩን ክንውን ይሞክሩ

Irregular verbs
6 Questions
Answer these questions about the different kinds of irregular verbs in 6 Minute Vocabulary
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Activity
Answer these questions about the different kinds of irregular verbs in 6 Minute Vocabulary
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It's a verb about 'looking'.Question 1 of 6
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Activity
Answer these questions about the different kinds of irregular verbs in 6 Minute Vocabulary
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The past participle is often the same form as the adjectiveQuestion 2 of 6
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Activity
Answer these questions about the different kinds of irregular verbs in 6 Minute Vocabulary
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Try to answer this question perfectly!Question 3 of 6
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Activity
Answer these questions about the different kinds of irregular verbs in 6 Minute Vocabulary
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"I've rung him six times already!"Question 4 of 6
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Activity
Answer these questions about the different kinds of irregular verbs in 6 Minute Vocabulary
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You need the past participle in this sentence: "I have ______ a dress for tonight".Question 5 of 6
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Activity
Answer these questions about the different kinds of irregular verbs in 6 Minute Vocabulary
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It's in the present perfect tense.Question 6 of 6
Excellent!Great job!መጥፎ እድል ነጥብ አስመዝግበዋል :
Next
Good job! But there's still one more test to do. Can you use these irregular verbs correctly in a conversation?
የሰዋሰው ክፍለ ጊዜ
Irregular verbs with three forms:
break, broke, broken
choose, chose, chosen
ring, rang, rung
see, saw, seen
take, took, taken
write, wrote, writtenIrregular verbs with two forms:
find, found, found
have, had, had
lose, lost, lost
meet, met, met
say, said, said
tell, told, toldIrregular verbs with one form:
cut, cut, cut
let, let, let
put, put, put
read, read, read
shut, shut, shut