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BUILDING VOCABULARY: Antonyms, Synonyms, Homonyms

 WHAT ARE...
Synonyms - words with same meaning (happy/glad, throw/toss...)
Antonyms - words with opposite meanings (old/new, right/left...)
Homonyms - words that sound the same, but have different meaning (too/two, right/write...)

 RESOURCES...
Human Brain Cloud - fun!
Vocabulary.com - challenging!
Online Thesaurus - useful!
Online Dictionary - necessary!

GAMES...
ABCya synonyms game
Quick antonyms checkup


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BUILDING VOCABULARY: Verbs, Verb Tenses...
Verb Tenses
Verbs - Simple Past

1. Regular verbs (...+ed    fx. - laugh:laughed)

  • walk - walked
  • rain - rained
  • jump - jumped
  • gather - gathered
  • visit - visited
  • snow - snowed
  • tidy - tidied      (y ----- ied)
  • cook - cooked
  • taste - tasted
  • prepare - prepared
  • talk - talked
  • travel - traveled
  • hurry - hurried     (y ------ied)
  • smell - smelled
2. Irregular verbs (spelling changes)

  • buy - bought - I bought a Danish pastry at the bakery.
  • write - wrote - JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter.
  • sell - sold - I sold all of my old toys at the flea market.
  • run - ran - I ran to the bus stop.
  • speak - spoke - I spoke with Johanne yesterday. 
  • sing - sang - The girls began to cry when Justin Bieber sang 'What Do You Mean'.
  • go - went - Ungdomsskolen went to London last spring.
  • sit - sat - My dog sat on the floor while I ate.
  • stand - stood - I stood up on stage at the concert.
  • cut - cut - Sarah cut her hair last week.
  • swim - swam - We swam in the Baltic Sea last summer.
  • ride - rode - Emil rode his bike from Graested to Gilleleje.
  • see - saw - They saw a shark while they were on vacation in South Africa. 
  • hear - heard - My dog heard the fireworks and then ran to hide beneath the bed.
  • feel - felt - I felt sick yesterday.

Simple past verb exercises
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