Key learning points

1. Applying knowledge about syllable stress reminds us how to say words that we may have forgotten how to pronounce.
2. Reading aloud accurately supports our own and others’ vocabulary learning.
3. We can say we know a verb when we can compose sentences of our own with its different persons.
4. The verb endings for Spanish -er and -ir verbs are the same for 'I', 'you (singular)', 'she', 'he', 'it' and 'they'.
5. The 1st person plural ‘we’ ending for -ir verbs is -imos; for -er verbs it is -emos.

Keywords

• Stress - pronouncing one syllable more heavily than other syllables in a word

• -ir verb - verb whose infinitive form ends in -ir

• 1st person plural - form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to 'we'

Common misconception