A party: -ir verbs in 1st person plural
Learning outcomes
I can use 1st person plural -ir verbs to talk about how we organise a party.
I can read words aloud with correct word stress.
A party: -ir verbs in 1st person plural
Learning outcomes
I can use 1st person plural -ir verbs to talk about how we organise a party.
I can read words aloud with correct word stress.
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Key learning points
- Applying knowledge about syllable stress reminds us how to say words that we may have forgotten how to pronounce.
- Reading aloud accurately supports our own and others’ vocabulary learning.
- We can say we know a verb when we can compose sentences of our own with its different persons.
- The verb endings for Spanish -er and -ir verbs are the same for 'I', 'you (singular)', 'she', 'he', 'it' and 'they'.
- The 1st person plural ‘we’ ending for -ir verbs is -imos; for -er verbs it is -emos.
Keywords
Stress - pronouncing one syllable more heavily than other syllables in a word
-ir verb - verb whose infinitive form ends in -ir
1st person plural - form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to 'we'
Common misconception
Spanish -er and -ir verbs share the same endings in the present tense.
The verbs endings for Spanish -er and -ir verbs are the same for 'I', 'you (singular)', 'she', 'he', 'it' and 'they'. The 1st person plural ‘we’ ending for -er verbs is -emos, and for -ir verbs is -imos.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
because
why?
that
what?
who?
to discover, discovering
I discover
you discover
she, he, it discovers
they discover
to sell, selling
I sell
you sell
she, he, it sells
we sell
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
to hand out, handing out
I hand out
you hand out
she, he, it hands out
we hand out
they hand out