Past celebrations: -er and -ir verbs imperfect tense
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use the preterite and imperfect tenses to talk about celebrations in the past.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Revisiting vocabulary often helps to move the words from your short-term to your long-term memory.
- For something completed in the past, we use the preterite tense, e.g. 'serví '- 'I served', 'serviste' - 'you served'.
- To talk about something that used to happen repeatedly in the past, we use the imperfect tense.
- To mean 'I' remove the endings and add -ía. For 'you' add -ías and for 'she, he, it' add -ía.
Keywords
Preterite tense - tense used for events completed in the past
Imperfect tense - tense used to describe how things were or used to be in the past
Common misconception
It does not matter whether I use the preterite or the imperfect as both refer to the past.
To talk about something completed in the past, we use the preterite tense. However, to talk about something that happened repeatedly in the past, with the meaning 'used to', we use the imperfect tense.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.'Mis padres están __________ de mi hermano'. Choose the correct missing word.
Q2.Match the Spanish and English.
to attend, attending
to run away, to flee
to be born, being born
to hear, hearing
to celebrate, celebrating
to run, running
Q3.Match the Spanish and English.
hill
doubt
experience
husband
wife
root
Q4.Order the words to say: 'the Cuban woman speaks to the Cuban man in the courtyard'.
Q5.Write in English: 'el baño es pequeño'.
Q6.Write in Spanish: 'they live in a castle'.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Match the Spanish and English.
date
time, while
female neighbour
male neighbour
visit
relation
Q2.Order the words to say: 'she used to eat meat and you used to eat sweets'.
Q3.Write in Spanish: 'you used to serve'.
Q4.Write in Spanish: 'I travelled around'.
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