Sustainability activities: -ar verbs singular persons preterite
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use -ar verbs in the preterite to talk about what I and others do to live sustainably.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
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'.
Teacher tip
Following the text in task B1, the teacher might want to ask students to write a short text about what they did to help their community.
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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.
Q2.'El primer día, fuimos a la playa'. Which word in this sentence is an adjective?
Q3.Order the words to say: 'he took out the rubbish then you took out the clothes'.
Q4.Write in Spanish: 'the field is near the neighbourhood'.
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