In class and at home: modal verb 'podemos'
Learning outcomes
I can use an expanding range of words to talk about everyday activities that I and others can do in class and at home.
I can listen and identify final and penultimate syllable stress.
- Year 8
In class and at home: modal verb 'podemos'
Learning outcomes
I can use an expanding range of words to talk about everyday activities that I and others can do in class and at home.
I can listen and identify final and penultimate syllable stress.
Lesson details
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Key learning points
- Listening to words with final and penultimate syllable stress helps to develop the ability to identify the stress.
- Making vocabulary links using antonyms or words with related meanings can enhance recall.
- The verb 'poder' is a modal verb and means 'to be able to', 'can'.
- Most present tense forms of 'poder' have a vowel change in the stem, ('puedo'); 'podemos' (we can) has no vowel change.
- The verb 'poder' is always followed by an infinitive, e.g. 'Podemos participar en clase.'
Keywords
Penultimate (syllable) stress - pronouncing the second-last syllable more heavily than other syllables in a word
Antonym - word that has the opposite meaning of another word
Modal verb - verb of necessity or possibility used with a 2nd verb in the infinitive, e.g. must, can, want
Poder - modal verb that means to be able to/can
Common misconception
All present tense forms of the model verb 'poder' have the same vowel change in the stem, o-> ue.
The 1st, 2nd, 3rd persons singular ('puedo', 'puedes', 'puede') and 3rd person plural ('pueden') forms all have a stem change from 'o' to 'ue' but 1st person plural 'we' form is 'podemos'; it keeps the same vowel as the infinitive 'poder'.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which nouns are feminine?
Q2.Which verbs are modal verbs?
Q3.Match the Spanish and English.
Q4.Match the Spanish and English.
Q5.Write in English: 'vas a la fiesta'.
Q6.Write in Spanish 'he goes to the market'.
Assessment exit quiz
5 Questions
Q1.Where does the stress fall in the word 'desayuno'?
Q2.Which form of the verb 'poder' does not have a vowel change in the stem?
Q3.Match the antonyms.
