Holiday activities: -ar, -er, -ir verbs 1st person plural present and preterite
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use -ar, -er and -ir verbs in the preterite tense to describe past holiday activities.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- For regular -er verbs, the verb ending -emos refers to 'we' in the present tense.
- For regular -er verbs, the verb ending -imos refers to 'we' in the preterite tense.
- For regular -ir verbs, the verb ending -imos refers to 'we' in the present and preterite tenses.
- For regular -ar verbs, the verb ending -amos refers to 'we' in the present and preterite tenses.
Keywords
Preterite - tense used for completed events in the past
1st person plural - form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to 'we'
Common misconception
-er verbs have the same ending in the 1st person plural of the present and preterite tenses.
Unlike -ir verbs, -er verbs do not have the same ending in these tenses. The verb ending -emos is used in the present tense and -imos is used in the preterite tense.
Teacher tip
While introducing Task C2, teachers may wish to highlight how Spanish colonial conquests during the 1500s and 1600s led to the fall of the Maya civilisation and imposition of Spanish language and culture in South and Central America.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which adjective is not shortened before singular masculine nouns?
Q2.Match the demonstrative adjectives and nouns.
avión
talla
escritores
artistas
Q3.Match the Spanish and English.
air
owner
hunger
present
place
thirst
Q4.Order the words to say: 'yesterday we spent too much time in the queue'.
Q5.Write in English: 'compro un recuerdo'.
Q6.Write in Spanish: 'I eat dinner in the restaurant'.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Which verb does not refer to both the present and preterite?
Q2.Order the words to say: 'we eat chicken and we ate meat'.
Q3.Write in Spanish: 'we shared'.
Q4.Write in Spanish: 'we swam'.
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