American English Podcast

202.2. Irregular Verbs with Bonnie and Clyde


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Who doesn’t love a good crime story from the 1930s?

Add romance, fast cars, and a nation in chaos… and you’ve got Bonnie and Clyde.

In this episode, I share a simplified, learner-friendly version of their true story—set during the Great Depression—and pack it with irregular verbs.

You’ll hear how newspapers turned two criminals into legends, why the public sympathized with them, and how their story became one of the most famous love-and-crime tales in U.S. history.


You’ll Learn:

  • The meaning of infamous
  • Why crime increased during the 1930s
  • How newspapers turned Bonnie and Clyde into legends
  • 10 essential irregular verbs in context (+ TONS of others we already learned in other irregular verb episodes)
  • Focus Verbs:

    steal (stole) · meet (met) · have (had) · drive (drove) · shoot (shot) ·
    hurt (hurt) · catch (caught) · give (gave) · hide (hid) · forget (forgot)


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