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Questions about past trips: regular preterite verbs 1st and 2nd person singular
I can use preterite tense verbs to ask and answer questions about someone's past trip.
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- Year 8
Questions about past trips: regular preterite verbs 1st and 2nd person singular
I can use preterite tense verbs to ask and answer questions about someone's past trip.
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Key learning points
- One effective and enjoyable way to learn vocabulary is through games that challenge you to recall words from memory.
- The preterite tense is used for completed actions in the past.
- To mean 'I' with an -ar verb, remove the ending and add -é. With an -er/-ir verb, add -í.
- To mean 'you' with an -ar verb, remove the ending and add -aste. With an -er/-ir verb, add -iste.
- To form questions in Spanish, use the same verb with a rising tone and write it between two question marks (¿ ?).
Keywords
Preterite - a tense used for events completed in the past
Intonation - rise and fall of the voice in speaking
Common misconception
When forming a question the verb form changes in Spanish like it does in English (auxiliary 'did' + verb).
The verb stays the same in Spanish and only the intonation (spoken) or punctuation (written) marks the sentence as a question. There is no need to translate a form of 'do', 'did' etc.
The teacher might ask students to create their own questions in Spanish as in activity B3. Then they can practice by asking these questions aloud to their classmates, paying attention to the rising intonation and correct punctuation in writing.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which Spanish word is the opposite of 'temprano'?
Which Spanish word is the opposite of 'temprano'?
Q2.Order the numbers from largest to smallest.
Order the numbers from largest to smallest.
Q3.Match the Spanish and English.
Match the Spanish and English.
Q4.Match the Spanish and English.
Match the Spanish and English.
Q5.Write in English: 'es un día feliz'.
Write in English: 'es un día feliz'.
Q6.Write in Spanish: 'Where is the house?'.
Write in Spanish: 'Where is the house?'.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.How many times do we need to see a new word before it will stick in our brain?
How many times do we need to see a new word before it will stick in our brain?
1
5
50
100
Q2.Match the Spanish and English.
Match the Spanish and English.
Q3.Write in Spanish: 'I studied and you studied'. Do not include pronouns.
Write in Spanish: 'I studied and you studied'. Do not include pronouns.
Q4.Write in Spanish: 'Did you buy a book?'.
Write in Spanish: 'Did you buy a book?'.
