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This grammar game will help your students learn verb forms of 60 English irregular verbs while playing grammar cards. It can be used with elementary students as well as with intermediate ones.
Download the rules of the game as a PDF document
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hCy79eDJB7NOD6tKATNX-wXrvIpCGNV6
Download the manual “How to Make Grammar Poker Cards”
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nNtEEMZDyHQny9NPc4AbVSptJEyh7taa

The rules of the game
Grammar Poker
The game is suitable for elementary and intermediate students. It is played in two groups of 7-8 students with a set of irregular verb cards for every group. The groups can switch the sets of cards when they finish playing to practice other irregular verbs. For example, for one group you give irregular verbs from B to L, for the other group from M to W.

Elementary level

1. At the beginning of the game every students gets 6 cards. The other cards are put on the desk in a pack. The game can be played clockwise or counter clockwise. Any students can start the game by putting on the desk one card with a verb in the first form. Make sure the students do not play in silence. They should pronounce the verb form to practice pronunciation.

2. The other students check their cards and if they have verb forms of the same verb, they should put them on the desk next to the first one in the correct order. For example, student 1: speak, students 2: spoke, students 3: spoken. If there all the three verb forms are on the desk in the correct order, these cards are no longer in the game and students should take from the pack other cards so that there would be six cards for every student again.

3. If one of the forms (the second or the third) is still in the stack and can’t be put next to the first form, the cards return back to their owners and the game goes on until the students can put all the three forms in the correct order on the desk.

4. Students continue playing the game until there are no more cards left in the pack. The winner is the student who has no more cards to play with.

Intermediate level

Students should not only pronounce irregular verb form but also make up sentences with them. For the first form it should be Present Simple – WE SPEAK ENGLISH EVERY DAY. For the second form – Past Simple: HE SPOKE TO THE PRESIDENT YESTERDAY. For the third form – Present Perfect: He has already spoken to everyone in this room.

How to make Grammar Poker Cards
1. Choose irregular verbs you would like your students to learn.

2. Make cards out of cardboard. 3 cards for every verb. They should be of the size of playing cards.
3. Write irregular verb form on every card twice at both ends of the cards (see the video 2:16).

How to calculate the number of cards
The number of cards depends on the number of students in your group. There should be no fewer than 6 cards for every student plus extra cards to be put on the desk in a pack (1-2 extra card for every student). There were 16 students in my group and they played in two groups of 8 people. 16 multiplied by 6 is 96 cards plus, for example, 24 extra cards to be put on the desk. All in all it will be 120 cards. It means that there will be 40 irregular verbs in the game, three cards for every irregular verb. You can give a pack of 20 irregular verbs to one group, the other 20 verbs to the other group. When they finish playing they can switch the packs.
Let’s calculate the number of cards for a group of 21 students. 21 multiplied by 6 makes 126 plus, for example, 24 cards to be put on the desk in a pack. 150 cards all in all. Let’s divide 150 by 3. There are 50 irregular verbs that you can practice with this group. As for there are too many students in this group, you can divide them into three smaller groups and give to every group a pack of cards with 15-18 irregular verbs.

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