KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
Acciones para un mundo mejor: 'ir' imperfect, past continuous
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Your learning goal
I can use the imperfect, preterite and past continuous tenses in the context of protests and social movements.
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Acciones para un mundo mejor: 'ir' imperfect, past continuous: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
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I can use the imperfect, preterite and past continuous tenses in the context of protests and social movements.
Key learning points
- 'iba', 'ibas' and 'iba' are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular imperfect forms of 'ir'. These are irregular.
- The preterite tense is used to talk about something completed in the past.
- The imperfect tense is used to talk about something that used to happen repeatedly in the past.
- The past continuous is created by combining imperfect forms of 'estar' with the present participle.
- When 'cuando' indicates an interruption to a past continuous action, the preterite tense is generally used afterwards.
Words to know
- imperfect
- verb tense used to talk about something that used to happen repeatedly
- preterite
- verb tense used to talk about something completed in the past
- past continuous
- verb tense used to talk about what was happening
- cuando
- word used to introduce relative clauses, meaning 'when'
Common mistakes
The only translation of 'iba' is 'I used to go'.
'iba' can means 'I used to go' or 'she, he, it used to go'. As 'iba' has several meanings, it’s important to consider to context of the sentence to work out who it refers to.
For parents, carers and teachers
- If some students need extra scaffolding for Task C2, you could provide them with the English translation of the text to help them fill in the gaps. This is available on the slide deck feedback and the worksheet answers for this lesson.