KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
Conflictos: imperfect 'ir', 'ver', 'ser', reflexive pronouns 'me', 'te' and 'se'
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I can use regular and irregular verbs together with reflexive pronouns in order to understand what life was life for different people during a conflict.
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I can use regular and irregular verbs together with reflexive pronouns in order to understand what life was life for different people during a conflict.
Key learning points
- Víctor Jara was a Chilean songwriter victim of Pinochet's regime due to his political activism and support of democracy.
- The imperfect tense is used to talk about something that used to happen repeatedly.
- The verbs 'ir' ('to go, going'), 'ser' ('to be, being') and 'ver' ('to see, seeing') are irregular in the imperfect.
- In the imperfect tense, -ar verbs have different endings to -er and -ir verbs.
- In two-verb modal structures, reflexive pronouns can go before the first verb or after the infinitive, attached to it.
Words to know
- imperfect
- verb tense used to talk about something that used to happen repeatedly
- era
- 1st and 3rd person singular of the irregular verb 'ser' in the imperfect tense
- iba
- 1st and 3rd person singular of the irregular verb 'ir' in the imperfect tense
- veía
- 1st and 3rd person singular of the irregular verb 'ver' in the imperfect tense
- reflexive pronoun
- used to indicate doing something to yourself, words like 'myself', 'yourself', 'herself' and 'himself'.
Common mistakes
Reflexive pronouns always come before the conjugated verb.
Reflexive pronouns can go in two plaes: before the conjugated verb or or after the infinitive, attached to it, with 2-verb modal structures.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Teachers can explore the 2019 version of Víctor Jara's 'Derecho de Vivir en Paz' in the lesson by discussing and adapting the lyrics. In this version, various Chilean artists sing the song to raise awareness of recent political tensions in Chile and other Latin American countries.