Sustainability activities: -ar verbs singular persons preterite
I can use -ar verbs in the preterite to talk about what I and others do to live sustainably.
- Year 8
Sustainability activities: -ar verbs singular persons preterite
I can use -ar verbs in the preterite to talk about what I and others do to live sustainably.
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Key learning points
- When revisiting vocabulary it's important to revise different parts of speech: verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs.
- Verbs communicate actions or states, e.g. -ar verbs - 'sacar', -er verbs - 'recoger', -ir verbs - 'subir'.
- Adjectives give information about a noun (person, place, thing). Prenominal adjectives go before the noun; most follow.
- Adverbs describe a verb or an adjective, e.g. adverbs of frequency - 'por la tarde’ or adverbs of place - ‘lejos (de)'.
- To mean 'I' for a preterite verb, we remove the -ar and add -é, for 'you' we add -aste, and for ‘she, he, it’ we add -ó.
Keywords
Verb - word that communicates actions or states
Noun - word for a person, place, or thing
Adjective - word that gives information about a noun
Adverb - word that describes a verb or an adjective
Preterite - describes completed events in the past, e.g. 'I did'
Common misconception
Accents don't affect how we pronounce Spanish words.
Accents are very important and can differentiate between past and present. When we pronounce words with accents, we must remember to stress that syllable. For example, the verb 'caminó' means 'he, she, it walked' while 'camino' means 'I walk'.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the definitions to their examples.
Q2.Which nouns are feminine?
Q3.Order the days of the week correctly.
Q4.Match the Spanish and English.
Q5.Write in Spanish: 'she travels to the beach'.
Q6.Write in Spanish: 'he receives a newspaper'.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Match the Spanish and English.
