Playing with teddy
Here is a fun activity for practicing past verb
forms, both regular and irregular, that my two classes at the Bangkok
Post carried out recently. We used a teddy bear because everyone likes
teddy bear but you can use just about anything . First, we thought of verbs that we could use with a teddy bear and then we acted them out in front of the video camera. Then the students explained what they had just done. Altogether we used 25 different verbs in the past tense. Watch the three very short videos find out what my students did to the teddy bear.
Notice that pronuncing past forms are much easier if they are combined with another word like "it". Take "kissed it" for example. It is difficult to say "kissed" first and then "it". It is much easier to say "kiss dit" . That is what native speakers do and so did most of my students.
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Class one: I hugged it, kissed it , sat it on a chair, punched it, stratched it, tried to borrow it, threw it, caught it, squeezed it, took its clothes off, dressed it, stole it
Class two: I tried to tear it, talked to it, rocked it, pretended to wash it, tickled it, grabbed it, hid it, shook it, fed it, bit it, burbed it (helped get gas out of the teddy's stomach), kicked it, played with it