Los días de colegio: 1st person singular present tense with 'g', e.g. 'pongo'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can talk about a typical school day using regular and irregular verbs in the present tense.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- [u] and [i] are weak vowels and they merge with other vowels making a single syllable.
- 'Contigo' is a pronoun and it means 'with you'.
- Some verbs have an irregular stem and add a -g- in 1st person singular, present tense: pongo, vengo, hago, digo - digo.
Keywords
Present tense - describes habitual events in the present: 'I do'
Irregular verb - a verb that does not follow the regular rules
Stem - part of the verb that appears in all forms
Common misconception
Verbs like 'poner', 'venir' and 'hacer' follow the rules of regular -er/-ir verbs in the present tense.
Verbs like 'poner', 'venir' and 'hacer' are irregular and add -g- in the 1st person singular present (e.g. 'pongo', 'vengo', 'hago', and 'decir' - 'digo').
Teacher tip
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the Spanish and English words.
Q2.Complete the sentence: The stem of the verb
Q3.Match the Spanish and English verbs.
Q4.Match the Spanish verb endings with the correct person.
Q5.Put the times in chronological order (earliest first).
Q6.'Welcome to my school!' Which words are needed to translate this sentence?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the Spanish and English words.
Q2.Which of the following words contain two vowels pronounced in the same syllable?
Q3.What does 'escribe' mean?
Q4.How do you say 'you learn'?
Q5.Which verbs end in '-go' in the first person singular form?
Q6.How do you say 'I put'?
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