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.
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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Starter quiz
6 Questions
abrir
árbol (m)
divertido
completamente
abrí
my
your
very
without
and
like
Exit quiz
4 Questions
I clean
she, he, it cleaned
I walk
she, he, it walked
I ride
she, he, it rode