Past Tense

There are 3 different tasks in the game. In the first task, you simply have to drag the verbs to match present to past tense forms. The second task requires you to choose the correct word to complete the sentence. Finally, for the third task you have to re-order the phrase. This sequence repeats with different sets of content. There is also a review screen in which you can see each verbs with its past-participle and an image to convey the meaning. The game uses a timer and lives system to give an element of challenge to the game. It was thought that just clicking through the different screens would be boring quite quickly and so the time constraint is used to, hopefully, make the game more engaging. Likewise, the number of mistakes that can be made is limited and too many errors will lose the game. The timer can be turned of by clicking on the settings button in game. There are 22 sets of content. Each set has 8 verbs, with a matching image and sentence to convey meaning and context. This gives a total of 176 items. These were selected from lists of basic verbs in English with a slight bias towards choosing irregular past tense forms; although, some verbs that were hard to represent visually were excluded. For example, it is quite difficult to draw an image to show the meaning of the verb 'decide'. At least without the image being too similar to other verbs such as 'choose' or 'pick up'. I hope that almost all the basic verbs are covered here and that by mastering this game, students will have a comprehensive mastery of all the basic past tense forms. The game is written in Javascript and uses the CreateJS framework. The scores table at the end is served from a NodeJS server on DigitalOcean.