Daily Archives: 27 February 2008

Irregular Verbs

Listen and Repeat to Learn Verb Conjugation and Pronunciation

 sit, sat, sat

spend, spent, spent

ring, rang, rung

wear, wore, worn

sell, sold, sold

beat, beat, beaten

win, won, won

hurt, hurt, hurt

sing, sang, sung

blow, blew, blown

rise, rose, risen

ride, rode ridden

fly, flew, flown

drink, drank, drunk,

forget, forgot, forgotten

throw, threw, thrown

hang, hung, hung,

swim, swam, swum

Irregular Verbs

  

Listen and Repeat to Learn Verb Conjugation and Pronunciation

feel, felt, felt

hold, held, held

stand, stood, stood

understand, understood, understood

lose, lost, lost

catch, caught, caught

buy, bought, bought

send, sent, sent

fall, fell, fallen

choose, chose, chosen

sleep, slept, slept

speak, spoke, spoken

meet, met, met

lead, led, led

bite, bit, bitten

hit, hit, hit

drive, drove, driven

break, broke, broken

Irregular Verbs

Listen and Repeat to Learn Verb Conjugation and Pronunciation 

take, took, taken                                

put, put, put

tell, told, told                                       

give, gave, given

read, read, read                                 

keep, kept, kept

begin, began, begun                           

let, let, let

hear, heard, heard                            

 cut, cut, cut

eat, ate, eaten *                                 

 run, ran, run

bring, brought, brought                   

become, became, become

grow, grew, grown                           

draw, drew, drawn

show, showed, shown                      

 mean, meant, meant

* Note that I clearly pronounced the “t” in “eaten.” Sometimes people don’t, especially when speaking at a normal speed.

At the post office

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At the post office

Air mail, please.

Postal clerk: Yes, ma´am?
Mrs Ryefield: How much is a stamp to send a letter to France, please?
Postal clerk: Air mail or surface mail?
Mrs Ryefield: Air mail, please.
Postal clerk: That´ll be eighty-five cents.
Mrs Ryefield: Four stamps, please. How much is that?
Postal clerk: Three dollars and forty cents.
Mrs Ryefield: There you go.

Rent-A-Car

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Rent-A-Car

I´d like to rent a car.

Rent-A-Car Clerk: Good morning. May I help you?
Mary Jones: I´d like to rent a car, please.
Rent-A-Car Clerk: Okay. Full-size, mid-size or compact, ma´am?
Mary Jones: Full-size, please. What´s the rate?
Rent-A-Car Clerk: 78 dollars a day with unlimited mileage.
Mary Jones: And I´d like to have insurance just in case.
Rent-A-Car Clerk: Is there an additional driver?
Mary Jones: No.
Rent-A-Car Clerk: If you want full coverage insurance, it will be 8 dollars per day. It includes collision damage waiver and personal accident insurance.
Mary Jones: All right. I´ll take it.
Rent-A-Car Clerk: Here is our brochure, ma´am. Err… full-size… OK. Please choose a model in this section.
Mary Jones: How about this one?
Rent-A-Car Clerk: All right. How many days would you like to use it?
Mary Jones: Just one day.
Rent-A-Car Clerk: May I see your driver´s license and credit card please?
Mary Jones: Is the international driving licence fine?
Rent-A-Car Clerk: Yes, it is.
(…)
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