B1Song 03Intermediate3:16Out Fri 2 Oct, 16:00 UK

Irregular Verbs Song Part 2

36 More Verbs by Sound

Learn 36 more English irregular verbs in one song: part 2 of our irregular verbs song. Level B1 (intermediate), for teenagers and adults learning English.

Base formPast simplePast participle36 verbs in 6 sound families

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Chapters

0:00Intro
0:11Chorus: base, past, participle
0:29The -D family: say, pay, tell, sell, hear, make, find
0:47Chorus
1:04-EW, then -OWN: know, grow, throw, blow, fly, draw
1:24The vowel turns into U: dig, hang, stick, swing, win, spin
1:34Chorus
1:51The -EN family: take, fall, forget, hide, ride, wake, steal, bite
2:09Same, same, same: read, set, hurt, quit, bet, spread
2:28Final chorus
2:46Outro: come, run, be

Lyrics

Intro

Irregular verbs, part two! Are you ready? One, two, three!

Chorus

One, two, three, sing it with me,

Base, then the past, then the participle, see?

Part two, part two, thirty-six new,

Irregular verbs, I'll sing them with you!

Verse 1 · The -D family

Past and participle are the same, and they end in -d

Say, said, said, pay, paid, paid,

Tell, told, told, sell, sold, sold,

Hear, heard, heard, make, made, made,

Find, found, found, now listen to the sound!

I paid the rent on Friday, that's the past, (Past simple)

I have paid it every month, participle at last! (Past participle)

Chorus

One, two, three, sing it with me,

Base, then the past, then the participle, see?

Part two, part two, thirty-six new,

Irregular verbs, I'll sing them with you!

Verse 2 · -EW, then -OWN

The past ends in -ew, the participle in -own

Know, knew, known, grow, grew, grown,

Throw, threw, thrown, blow, blew, blown,

Fly, flew, flown, draw, drew, drawn,

Knew and flew, then known and flown!

I flew to Rome last summer, that's the past, (Past simple)

I have flown there twice since then, participle at last! (Past participle)

Verse 3 · The vowel turns into U

dig → dug: past and participle sing a U (won too)

Dig, dug, dug, hang, hung, hung,

Stick, stuck, stuck, swing, swung, swung,

Win, won, won, spin, spun, spun,

Change the vowel into U, and the job is done!

Chorus

One, two, three, sing it with me,

Base, then the past, then the participle, see?

Part two, part two, thirty-six new,

Irregular verbs, I'll sing them with you!

Verse 4 · The -EN family, part 2

The participle ends in -en

Take, took, taken, fall, fell, fallen,

Forget, forgot, forgotten, hide, hid, hidden,

Ride, rode, ridden, wake, woke, woken,

Steal, stole, stolen, bite, bit, bitten!

I forgot my keys this morning, that's the past, (Past simple)

I have forgotten them again, participle at last! (Past participle)

Bridge · Same · same · same

Nothing changes, except the sound of read: reed → red → red

Read, read, read, set, set, set,

Hurt, hurt, hurt, quit, quit, quit,

Bet, bet, bet, spread, spread, spread,

Same, same, same, just read sounds like red!

Final chorus

One, two, three, sing it with me,

Base, then the past, then the participle, see?

Part two, part two, thirty-six new,

Irregular verbs, I'll sing them with you!

Outro · The rebels

No pattern here: learn them by heart

Come, came, come, run, ran, run,

Be, was, been, and part two is done!

The verbs

All 36 verbs, by sound

The song groups the verbs by how they sound, so you learn whole families at once. The underlined part is the sound they share.

The -D family

Past and participle are the same, and they end in -d

A · B · B

The -D family: base form, past simple and past participle
Base	Past	Participle
say	said	said
pay	paid	paid
tell	told	told
sell	sold	sold
hear	heard	heard
make	made	made
find	found	found

-EW, then -OWN

The past ends in -ew, the participle in -own

A · B · C

-EW, then -OWN: base form, past simple and past participle
Base	Past	Participle
know	knew	known
grow	grew	grown
throw	threw	thrown
blow	blew	blown
fly	flew	flown
draw	drew	drawn

The vowel turns into U

dig → dug: past and participle sing a U (won too)

A · B · B

The vowel turns into U: base form, past simple and past participle
Base	Past	Participle
dig	dug	dug
hang	hung	hung
stick	stuck	stuck
swing	swung	swung
win	won	won
spin	spun	spun

The -EN family, part 2

The participle ends in -en

A · B · C

The -EN family, part 2: base form, past simple and past participle
Base	Past	Participle
take	took	taken
fall	fell	fallen
forget	forgot	forgotten
hide	hid	hidden
ride	rode	ridden
wake	woke	woken
steal	stole	stolen
bite	bit	bitten

Same · same · same

Nothing changes, except the sound of read: reed → red → red

A · A · A

Same · same · same: base form, past simple and past participle
Base	Past	Participle
read	read	read
set	set	set
hurt	hurt	hurt
quit	quit	quit
bet	bet	bet
spread	spread	spread

The rebels

No pattern here: learn them by heart

A · B · C

The rebels: base form, past simple and past participle
Base	Past	Participle
come	came	come
run	ran	run
be	was	been

See all 72 irregular verbs, searchable and printable

Practice

Test yourself

More practice with this songHear Remi sing a line, type the missing words, then check the answers and explanations.Irregular Verbs Part 2 exercises

Your turn

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Use it in a sentence, like: "I have never flown in a helicopter."

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