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Unit 12: Fashion forward
Active and passive voice

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  1. 1Pop-ups
  2. 2Hidden talents
  3. 3Can't buy me love
  4. 4Travellers' tales
  5. 5The colleague from hell
  6. 6Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
  7. 7Career changes
  8. 8Art
  9. 9Project management
  10. 10The dog ate my homework!
  11. 11The diary of a double agent
  12. 12Fashion forward
  13. 13Flat pack skyscrapers
  14. 14Extreme sports
  15. 15Food fads
  16. 16Me, my selfie and I
  17. 17Endangered animals
  18. 18A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
  19. 19I'm really sorry...
  20. 20Telling stories
  21. 21Fakes and phrasals
  22. 22Looking to the future
  23. 23Becoming familiar with things
  24. 24From rags to riches
  25. 25Against the odds
  26. 26Our future on Mars?
  27. 27Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
  28. 28Dodgy dating
  29. 29Annoying advice
  30. 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!

Wayiitiwwan marii boqonnaa kana keessaa

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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.

Barreeffama kana dubbisii shakala kana xumuri

Irregular verbs

6 Questions

Answer these questions about the different kinds of irregular verbs in 6 Minute Vocabulary

Baga gammadde! Qormaata xumurteetta
Excellent!Great job!Carraa badaa!Qabxii argatte:
x / y

Next

Good job! But there's still one more test to do. Can you use these irregular verbs correctly in a conversation?

Caasluga kutaa kanaa

  • Irregular verbs with three forms:

    break, broke, broken
    choose, chose, chosen
    ring, rang, rung
    see, saw, seen
    take, took, taken
    write, wrote, written

    Irregular verbs with two forms:

    find, found, found
    have, had, had
    lose, lost, lost
    meet, met, met
    say, said, said
    tell, told, told

    Irregular verbs with one form:

    cut, cut, cut
    let, let, let
    put, put, put
    read, read, read
    shut, shut, shut

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