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- Year 11
- Edexcel
Entre amigos: preterite and imperfect, role-play (Edexcel)
I can understand and translate verbs in the preterite and imperfect tenses, and respond confidently to role-play scenarios relating to family and celebrations.
- Year 11
- Edexcel
Entre amigos: preterite and imperfect, role-play (Edexcel)
I can understand and translate verbs in the preterite and imperfect tenses, and respond confidently to role-play scenarios relating to family and celebrations.
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Key learning points
- To conjugate regular -are verbs in the preterite tense, use the endings -é, -aste, -ó, -amos, -asteis, -aron.
- To conjugate regular -er/-ir verbs in the preterite tense, use the endings -í, -iste, -ió, -imos, -isteis, -ieron.
- To conjugate regular -ar verbs in the imperfect tense, use the endings -aba, -abas, -aba, -ábamos, -ábais, -aban.
- To conjugate regular -er/-ir verbs in the imperfect tense, use the endings -ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -íais, -ían.
- The only irregular verbs in the imperfect tense are 'ir' ('iba'), 'ser' ('era') and 'ver' ('veía').
Keywords
Preterite - tense used to express completed events in the past
Imperfect - tense used to describe how things were or used to be in the past
Common misconception
The only translation of 'I visited' in Spanish is 'visité'.
In Spanish, 'visité' means 'I visited' for a single, completed action in the past. You could also, however, use 'visitaba' to mean 'I visited' for an action that happened repeatedly over a period of time.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which celebration involves the burning of papier mâché models?
Q2.Match the Spanish and English.
to open, opening
to look for
to shout, shouting
to lose, miss
to appreciate, appreciating
to live, living
Q3.Match the Spanish and English.
key
autumn
adventure
memory, souvenir
desire, wish
appointment