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Holiday activities: -ar, -er, -ir verbs 1st person plural present and preterite

I can use -ar, -er and -ir verbs in the preterite tense to describe past holiday activities.

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Holiday activities: -ar, -er, -ir verbs 1st person plural present and preterite

I can use -ar, -er and -ir verbs in the preterite tense to describe past holiday activities.

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Key learning points

  1. For regular -er verbs, the verb ending -emos refers to 'we' in the present tense.
  2. For regular -er verbs, the verb ending -imos refers to 'we' in the preterite tense.
  3. For regular -ir verbs, the verb ending -imos refers to 'we' in the present and preterite tenses.
  4. 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.


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6 Questions

Q1.
Which adjective is not shortened before singular masculine nouns?

bueno
malo
grande
Correct answer: único

Q2.
Match the demonstrative adjectives and nouns.

Correct Answer:ese,avión

avión

Correct Answer:esa,talla

talla

Correct Answer:esos,escritores

escritores

Correct Answer:esas,artistas

artistas

Q3.
Match the Spanish and English.

Correct Answer:aire (m),air

air

Correct Answer:dueño (m),owner

owner

Correct Answer:hambre (f),hunger

hunger

Correct Answer:regalo (m),present

present

Correct Answer:sitio (m),place

place

Correct Answer:sed (f),thirst

thirst

Q4.
Order the words to say: 'yesterday we spent too much time in the queue'.

1 - ayer
2 - pasamos
3 - demasiado
4 - tiempo
5 - en
6 - la
7 - cola

Q5.
Write in English: 'compro un recuerdo'.

Correct Answer: I buy a souvenir, I am buying a souvenir, I'm buying a souvenir

Q6.
Write in Spanish: 'I eat dinner in the restaurant'.

Correct Answer: ceno en el restaurante, yo ceno en el restaurante

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4 Questions

Q1.
Which verb does not refer to both the present and preterite?

Correct answer: volvimos
vivimos
visitamos

Q2.
Order the words to say: 'we eat chicken and we ate meat'.

1 - comemos
2 - pollo
3 - y
4 - comimos
5 - carne

Q3.
Write in Spanish: 'we shared'.

Correct Answer: compartimos, nosotros compartimos, nosotras compartimos

Q4.
Write in Spanish: 'we swam'.

Correct Answer: nadamos, nosotros nadamos, nosotras nadamos

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