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Los días de colegio: 1st person singular present tense with 'g', e.g. 'pongo'
I can talk about a typical school day using regular and irregular verbs in the present tense.
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Los días de colegio: 1st person singular present tense with 'g', e.g. 'pongo'
I can talk about a typical school day using regular and irregular verbs in the present tense.
Lesson details
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Key learning points
- [u] and [i] are weak vowels and they merge with other vowels making a single syllable.
- 'Contigo' is a pronoun and it means 'with you'.
- Some verbs have an irregular stem and add a -g- in 1st person singular, present tense: pongo, vengo, hago, digo - digo.
Keywords
Present tense - describes habitual events in the present: 'I do'
Irregular verb - a verb that does not follow the regular rules
Stem - part of the verb that appears in all forms
Common misconception
Verbs like 'poner', 'venir' and 'hacer' follow the rules of regular -er/-ir verbs in the present tense.
Verbs like 'poner', 'venir' and 'hacer' are irregular and add -g- in the 1st person singular present (e.g. 'pongo', 'vengo', 'hago', and 'decir' - 'digo').
Teachers can add an element of competition to the last writing task by awarding points for using words featuring in the lesson to ensure students are producing the targeted language.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the Spanish and English words.
Match the Spanish and English words.
Q2.Complete the sentence: The stem of the verb
Complete the sentence: The stem of the verb
appears only in the past tense.
is added to the infinitive.
Q3.Match the Spanish and English verbs.
Match the Spanish and English verbs.
Q4.Match the Spanish verb endings with the correct person.
Match the Spanish verb endings with the correct person.
Q5.Put the times in chronological order (earliest first).
Put the times in chronological order (earliest first).
Q6.'Welcome to my school!' Which words are needed to translate this sentence?
'Welcome to my school!' Which words are needed to translate this sentence?
ayuntamiento
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the Spanish and English words.
Match the Spanish and English words.
Q2.Which of the following words contain two vowels pronounced in the same syllable?
Which of the following words contain two vowels pronounced in the same syllable?
idea
Q3.What does 'escribe' mean?
What does 'escribe' mean?
you write
I write
to write, writing
Q4.How do you say 'you learn'?
How do you say 'you learn'?
Q5.Which verbs end in '-go' in the first person singular form?
Which verbs end in '-go' in the first person singular form?
beber
ser
Q6.How do you say 'I put'?
How do you say 'I put'?
poner
pones
pone
pono
