Popular culture: Fiestas y costumbres
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Pupils learned to form the present participle in previous units. Now they combine it with 'seguir' and 'continuar' to mean 'to continue to' or 'to still be doing'. They also learn the idiomatic phrase 'acabar de' with an infinitive to mean 'to have just'. Pupils anchor third person singular and plural regular -er and -ir verbs in the preterite in the context of customs and festivals in Spain and Latin America, and secure using rising intonation and verb subject word order with question words.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know singular and plural persons of regular -ar, -er, -ir verbs in the preterite.
- Pupils know what an infinitive is.
- Pupils know how to form the present participle.
- Pupils know how to ask questions by using intonation.
- Pupils know a variety of question words.
- Pupils know verb-subject word order following a question word.
- Pupils know sound-symbol correspondences silent [h], [ch], [co], [ca], [cu].
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Why this why now
Pupils learned to form the present participle in previous units. Now they combine it with 'seguir' and 'continuar' to mean 'to continue to' or 'to still be doing'. They also learn the idiomatic phrase 'acabar de' with an infinitive to mean 'to have just'. Pupils anchor third person singular and plural regular -er and -ir verbs in the preterite in the context of customs and festivals in Spain and Latin America, and secure using rising intonation and verb subject word order with question words.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know singular and plural persons of regular -ar, -er, -ir verbs in the preterite.
- Pupils know what an infinitive is.
- Pupils know how to form the present participle.
- Pupils know how to ask questions by using intonation.
- Pupils know a variety of question words.
- Pupils know verb-subject word order following a question word.
- Pupils know sound-symbol correspondences silent [h], [ch], [co], [ca], [cu].
Popular culture: Fiestas y costumbres
This unit introduces idiomatic phrases 'acabar de' with the infinitive, 'seguir' with a present participle, and 'continuar' with a present participle. Pupils revisit third person singular and plural regular -er and -ir verbs in the preterite, interrogatives and question words.
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