Speaking of practicing
irregular verbs and food vocabulary…
and
all at once...
Här visas också några viktiga verb
På tal om att öva oregelbundna verb och matord…
En övning med några vanliga oregelbundna
verb,
irregular verbs; present & past tense, perfect & plu
perfect
with some food & household items added
leek, said the cucumber.
(I
am not a
leek
said the carrot.)
Yesterday I thought I
was a cucumber.
I
have never even
been
close to leek, said Mr. Strawberry.
I hate to
be rude,
said the
cucumber, but I
was
so sick last night I
have never even
been
close to anything like it before.
To
be exposed to
mildew isn’t really what a
cucumber likes the
best.
Actually I
was surprised to learn that
not even carrots like things such as
mildew,
said the cucumber.
I
have always
been
fond of lettuce said the
cucumber’s father.
GO
My mother wants me to
go
to the grocery store to buy
leek.
Last summer my family
went
to a farm where they were growing
leek.
-Where
‘s all the
leek
gone (to)? asked the gardener.
DRIVE
I can’t
drive so well when I’ve had too much
lettuce for lunch.
Last February we all
drove
down to L.A. to participate in a
lettuce
festival (feast).
I
had
driven
for about two hours when I suddenly ran into a big pile of
lettuce
in the middle of the road.
GRIND
I
grind
beef and onion for the whole family late November every year.
Three years ago I only ground my own ration basically.
Last November I
had ground
approximately 55 lbs. of beef including onions and spices,
when suddenly my meat
grinder broke down,
and all of a sudden our favorite Christmas dish with Swedish
meatballs seemed to be in jeopardy.
CATCH
I always
catch
a bus around noon but this is the first time seeing a bunch of apples
waiting in line at the bus stop ahead of me.
I think there’s something wrong with me and
probably I
caught a cold while sleeping out
last night.
Have you never
caught a
cold in (during) winter before?
BEAR
You must
bear
in mind that
lettuce can’t take cold weather
without getting (being) destroyed.
He
bore
it within (him) all his life and never let anyone know about his secret passion for
lettuce.
He was
born in an area where
lettuce
was considered rabbit food.
BEAT
You
shouldn’t beat on
cabbage
just to kill some flies.
They
beat their
cabbage
for two weeks in a row last season and that did it.
They
have beaten
their cabbage for the last time no doubt.
CUT
Cut
cabbage into small
pieces (=finely chop), or use a shredder, and prepare for a
coleslaw
salad.
I
cut all
cabbage
we had in store last night.
I
have never ever
cut
so much cabbage in my life.
BECOME
It’s really a miracle that a little flower
becomes
a strawberry, then suddenly sitting in a big
pile of whipped cream.
Once that little flower
became
a
strawberry it was suddenly so popular.
I wonder whatever
has
become of the
strawberries we grew in our
back yard.
BEND
I
try never to bend branches of a fruit tree.
Last August I
bent a
cherry tree branch to the extent that it broke.
That tree
has
now (been)
bent for the last time.
BID
I often attend vegetable auctions while staying in California but I never
bid.
However, once I
bid
at an auction and was stuck with a whole darn truckload of bananas.
Have you ever
bid at a
vegetable auction?
BIND
Sara usually
binds
bunches of roses into beautiful bouquets every Wednesday afternoon.
Unfortunately she forgot about this last Wednesday and
never bound any bouquets,
so we’re
temporarily out of rose bouquets today.
Have you ever
bound any rose bouquet?
BITE
Here!
Have a bite of this
apple.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
I never
bite
into
apples. I once
bit
into an apple and lost my false teeth.
I
have
bitten into
apples
for the very last time.
CHOOSE
Both my parents usually
choose to have
an early breakfast with lots and lots of
vegetables.
Somehow they sort of broke their pattern yesterday when all they
chose
to eat
was cereals and yogurt,
and
there wasn’t any vegetables in sight even.
I
have always
chosen
some vegetables with my breakfast arrangements apart from coffee,
cheese and
eggs of course.
BUY
Let’s
buy some more potatoes and
make some hash-browns in the morning. I never
bought
any yesterday.
We
have bought potatoes here as long
as I can remember.
MAKE
How to
make hash-browns? I
made
some last Sunday morning,
remember?
I have always
made
you hash-browns on Sunday mornings, haven’t I?
BUILD
Why don’t we
build ourselves a
gingerbread house?
When I grew up we always built one of those just before Christmas every year.
Have you never
built
one?
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