Sustainability activities: -er and -ir verbs singular persons preterite
Learning outcomes
I can use -er and -ir preterite verbs to talk about what I and other did to live sustainably.
I can pronounce and write words with the sounds [que] and [qui] confidently.
Sustainability activities: -er and -ir verbs singular persons preterite
Learning outcomes
I can use -er and -ir preterite verbs to talk about what I and other did to live sustainably.
I can pronounce and write words with the sounds [que] and [qui] confidently.
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Key learning points
- The sound-symbol correspondence [que] is pronounced as in the word '¿por qué?' and [qui] as in the word 'equipo'.
- The preterite tense is used to describe completed actions in the past.
- For -er and -ir verbs, for 'I' we remove the ending and add -í, for 'you' we add -iste and for 'she, he, it' we add -ió.
- Being able adapt a sentence creatively using linguistic knowledge is important for speaking, vocabulary and writing.
Keywords
Preterite - describes completed events in the past, e.g. ‘I did’
Common misconception
In the preterite tense, er and -ir verbs have different endings.
-er and -ir verbs share the same endings in the preterite: -í for 'I', -iste for 'you' and -ió for 'she, he, it'.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
help
bag
thing
ticket (event)
Monday
newspaper
to clean, cleaning
to ride, riding
to pass, spend (time), happen
to receive, receiving
to take out, taking out
to travel, travelling
Exit quiz
5 Questions
I went up
you went up
she, he, it went up
I lost
you lost
she, he, it lost