Irregular Verbs Past Perfect Activity

It’s day eleven of our 15 days of irregular verb activities and we’ve got an irregular verbs past perfect activity ready to download. The activity consists of 20 cards each with the beginning of a sentence ending with “because…” and 5 choices of irregular verbs to complete the sentence and explain the situation.

How it works

Use this activity is a warm-up, while you are waiting for your students to arrive, or at the end of a lesson.

There are 20 cards to help your students practice the past perfect and their irregular verbs. Each card has a situation from the past and they must explain why by using the past perfect and one of the verbs on the card. The less frequently the irregular verb is used in spoken English, the higher the point value. Give your students 30-60 seconds to come up with a response, share them, and then dole out points to those who created a grammatically correct sentence and correctly spelled their irregular verb!

Farid missed his flight yesterday because…

…he had had too much to drink the night before and didn’t hear his alarm.

…he had thought it was today!

…he hadn’t put his alarm on the night before.

…he hadn’t slept well all week and finally fell deeply asleep.

…he had lit his ticket on fire at a party a few nights before and then forgot.

If any of your students can manage to get the 5-pointers, please share them with us because we tried to make them really hard!