Irregular Verbs ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets
Introduction to Irregular Verbs

ESL Irregular Verbs Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Categorizing, Matching, Gap-fill, Writing Questions and Answers - Speaking Activity: Freer Practice - Pair Work
This productive irregular verbs worksheet helps students learn and practice ten common irregular verbs in the past and present tense. First, students sort irregular...
Irregular Verb Battleships

ESL Irregular Verbs Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Forming Sentences, Freer Practice - Pair Work
Here is a fun irregular verbs game for students to play in class. First, students change ten present tense irregular verbs into their past tense form and write them in their battleships grid. In pairs...
Irregular Verbs Matching Game

ESL Irregular Verbs Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Matching, Forming Sentences, Freer Practice - Group Work
Here is an entertaining irregular verbs game to help students memorise past simple irregular verbs. In pairs, students take turns turning over one infinitive form irregular verb card and one past simple irregular verb...
Past Tense Talk

ESL Irregular Verbs Activities - Grammar Game: Pelmanism - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work
In this excellent set of free irregular verb activities, students play a pelmanism game where they match infinitive and past simple irregular verbs together and...
Three in a row

ESL Irregular Verbs Game - Grammar: Matching - Group Work
Here is a memorable irregular verbs game to help students practice the three forms of the 20 most common irregular verbs in the English language. The aim of the game is to say and find three matching irregular verb cards in a row. One student begins by...
What did you do yesterday?

ESL Irregular Verbs Activity - Vocabulary and Speaking: Guessing, Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work
In this useful irregular verbs speaking activity, students guess what their partner did yesterday by making statements with past simple irregular verbs. First, students guess what their partner did...
Irregular Verb Dominoes

ESL Irregular Verbs Game - Grammar: Matching, Gap-fill - Group Work
In this rewarding irregular verbs game, students practice recognizing and correctly using past simple forms of irregular verbs in sentences. To begin, the first player tries to place one of their dominoes on either side of the domino on the table by...
Irregular Verbs Bingo

ESL Irregular Verbs Game - Vocabulary: Matching - Group Work
In this free irregular verbs game, students play bingo by listening to the infinitive form of irregular verbs and matching them to past simple irregular verbs. Call out the infinitive form of irregular verbs from the caller's sheet in a random order. If students...
Irregular Verbs Connect 4

ESL Irregular Verbs Game - Grammar and Speaking: Changing Word Forms, Forming Sentences, Freer Practice - Pair Work
In this engaging irregular verbs game, students write irregular verbs in their past tense or past participle form and make sentences with the verbs. Tell the students which irregular verb form...
Make a Sentence

ESL Irregular Verb Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences
In this creative past simple irregular verbs game, students change present simple irregular verbs into their past tense form and then make a past simple sentence with each verb. Students take turns picking up an irregular card. The student...
Past Simple Irregular Verbs Practice

ESL Past Simple Irregular Verbs Worksheet - Vocabulary and Reading Exercises: Unscrambling, Gap-fill, Scanning, Answering Questions - Speaking Activity
In this comprehensive past simple irregular verbs worksheet, students practice common irregular verbs in their past simple form. Students start by unscrambling...
What's next?

ESL Irregular Verbs Game - Grammar: Matching, Forming Sentences, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this enjoyable irregular verbs activity, students play a game where they practice making sentences with past tense irregular verbs. In groups, students take turns turning over a numbered card from...
When was the last time...?

ESL Irregular Verbs Game - Grammar and Speaking: Answering Questions, Writing Sentences, Guessing, Completing Questions - Pair Work
Here is an interesting irregular verbs game for your students to play in class. In the activity, students practice past tense irregular verbs by playing a question and...
Past Participle Irregular Verbs Crossword

ESL Irregular Verbs Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Writing and Reading Sentences, Gap-fill, Guessing - Group and Pair Work
In this free irregular verbs activity, students write sentences containing past participle irregular verbs and then complete a crossword by guessing missing verbs from a partner's sentences. In two...
Three of a kind

ESL Irregular Verbs Game - Grammar: Matching, Asking Questions - Group Work
In this challenging irregular verbs card game, students race to collect the infinitive, past simple and past participle form of less common irregular verbs. One student begins by asking another student for a card they need to get three of a kind...
An Irregular Conversation

ESL Irregular Verbs Activity- Vocabulary and Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled and Communicative Practice - Group and Pair Work
In this communicative irregular verbs speaking activity, students complete conversation questions with infinitive, past simple and past participle...
Irregular Verbs Pelmanism

ESL Irregular Verbs Game - Grammar: Pelmanism, Matching, Gap-fill - Group Work
Here is a handy irregular verbs pelmanism game to help students practice the infinitive, past simple and past participle forms of less common irregular verbs. In groups of three, students take turns turning over one irregular verb card and one...