In class and at home: modal verb 'podemos'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use an expanding range of words to talk about everyday activities that I and others can do in class and at home.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Listening to words with final and penultimate syllable stress helps to develop the ability to identify the stress.
- Making vocabulary links using antonyms or words with related meanings can enhance recall.
- The verb 'poder' is a modal verb and means 'to be able to', 'can'.
- Most present tense forms of 'poder' have a vowel change in the stem, ('puedo'); 'podemos' (we can) has no vowel change.
- The verb 'poder' is always followed by an infinitive, e.g. 'Podemos participar en clase.'
Keywords
Penultimate (syllable) stress - pronouncing the second-last syllable more heavily than other syllables in a word
Antonym - word that has the opposite meaning of another word
Modal verb - verb of necessity or possibility used with a 2nd verb in the infinitive, e.g. must, can, want
Poder - modal verb that means to be able to/can
Common misconception
All present tense forms of the model verb 'poder' have the same vowel change in the stem, o-> ue.
The 1st, 2nd, 3rd persons singular ('puedo', 'puedes', 'puede') and 3rd person plural ('pueden') forms all have a stem change from 'o' to 'ue' but 1st person plural 'we' form is 'podemos'; it keeps the same vowel as the infinitive 'poder'.
Teacher tip
During the vocabulary focus in the 2nd learning cycle, teachers may want to remind pupils about their own 'vocabulario', or personal word repertoire, and encourage them to add any words that are important to them to the place set aside for this.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which nouns are feminine?
Q2.Which verbs are modal verbs?
Q3.Match the Spanish and English.
can, to be able to
I can
you can
she, he, it can
they can
Q4.Match the Spanish and English.
now
like that
same
perhaps, maybe
according to
without
Q5.Write in English: 'vas a la fiesta'.
Q6.Write in Spanish 'he goes to the market'.
Assessment exit quiz
5 Questions
Q1.Where does the stress fall in the word 'desayuno'?
Q2.Which form of the verb 'poder' does not have a vowel change in the stem?
Q3.Match the antonyms.
sucio
triste
malo
feo
terminar
verdad
Q4.Order the words to say 'I can go to Italy in January'.
Q5.Write in Spanish: 'we can go to the park'.
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