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Learning English verbs is child’s play
Product: Teaching tools
Trim size in cm: 13,32 x 13,32 x 3,5 cm
Pages: 9788859050087
Publication date: 01/01/2026
Suitable for: Lower secondary 1st level (ages 10-11), Lower secondary 2nd level (ages 12-13)
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VerbING is an educational game for children aged 11 and up, designed to help them recognise and classify English verb tenses in a simple and enjoyable way. The aim of the game is to be the first to complete a set of four cards sharing the same tense, mood, form or modal verb.
During each round, both language and strategic skills are put to the test, because knowing English isn’t enough: players also need attention, memory and a touch of clever thinking. The colourful, easy-to-recognise cards include affirmative, negative and interrogative forms, both regular and irregular, for effective and comprehensive learning.
Teaching objectives
• 96 cards
• 1 overview chart
• 1 classification poster
• Instructions
THE BOX CONTENTS
1 deck of 96 cards (4 cards for each verb tense)
• Imperative Mood
• Past Simple • Past Continuous • Past Perfect Simple • Past Perfect Continuous
• Future Continuous • Future Perfect Simple • Future Perfect Continuous • Future with Be Going To • Future Simple with Will
• Can • Must • Have To • Would • May/Might • Could • Should
• Present Simple • Present Continuous • Present Perfect Simple • Present Perfect Continuous
• Present Participle (Gerund or -ING form) • Past Participle • Infinitive
1 verb reference sheet
1 verb classification poster
A2 LEVEL
72 cards Playable with 2 to 18 players (blue cards only)B1 LEVEL
80 cards Playable with 2 to 20 players (blue and red cards)B2 LEVEL
96 cards Playable with 2 to 24 players (all cards in the deck)HOW TO PLAY
The aim of the game is to score the most points by completing a set of four cards that share the same verb tense, mood, form or modal verb.
Before starting the game, the cards must be divided into sets according to tense, mood, form or modal verb, creating 24 sets of 4 cards. Select as many sets as there are players.
After dealing 4 cards to each player, everyone tries to complete a set by choosing a tense or verb form, a modal verb or the imperative. On each turn, players pass one card to the right and receive one from the left. The game continues until a player completes a valid set, declares it aloud and slaps their hand on the table. All players must do the same: the last one loses a point.
If the declaration is incorrect or the set is not valid, the player who made the mistake loses a point.
THE AUTHOR
Giulia Imbriaco. She graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures and earned a PhD in Comparative Literature. Thanks to numerous study and research opportunities abroad, she spent time in Great Britain, the United States, Ukraine and Russia. She began her career as an English teacher in 2019 at the Malpighi lower secondary schools in Bologna.
