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Author: Karen Wilson, SEND Specialist
Download Irregular past tense verb endings
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Learners with speech and language difficulties may find it difficult to use the correct tense or find it hard to understand the concepts of time.  

Tip or Idea: Take 5 minutes to chat together at the end of a busy day or lesson. Talk about what you did, what you enjoyed or what made you laugh. This gives learners the opportunity to practise using the past tense and maybe time and order words too like first, next and then. 

Learning Village resource: Practise those trickier past tense words with our helpful irregular past tense writing prompt.

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