One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “English irregular verbs are an interesting grammar point Spanish students have to study year after year, increasing the list of them each academic year. Quite many more verbs of this type existed in Old English, before the 11th century, perhaps most of the English verbs then. In other words, the way each verb took the form of past simple and past participle was more complicate than the simple – ed ending. With centuries passing, fewer and fewer verbs remained as such ‘irregular’ verbs, in fact those verbs native speakers used very often. Because of that those verbs remained being ‘irregular’, while most of the English verbs, roughly speaking, were taking on the regular form of – ed for past simple and past participle. This can be due just to linguistic evolutions that actually occur in every language, with the language common people speak, year after year. Beside the fact that many words, so verbs too, were entering in the E
One day teacher A said to teacher B, “Before a Reading activity of a text you have previously handed out to your students, I believe it’s sound to create certain eagerness to read it. I mean, make a pre-reading, a lead-in: ask them questions whose answers will appear in the text; ask your teens about the gist or details about the topic. You, read it before. It’ll be less bore than if just reading a printed text. Spur their curiosity, their thirst to read it.” Photo from www iml granada com
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