KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
Dos idiomas, dos culturas - los Nuyoricans: imperfect for habitual actions
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Your learning goal
I can distinguish between the present and imperfect tenses in the life of a Nuyorican.
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I can distinguish between the present and imperfect tenses in the life of a Nuyorican.
Key learning points
- The imperfect tense is used to talk about habitual actions in the past or to describe how things were in the past.
- The regular imperfect endings for singular -ar verbs are -aba, -abas and -aba.
- The regular imperfect endings for singular -er/-ir verbs are -ía, -ías and -ía.
- 'Ser' is irregular in the imperfect tense. Use 'era' or 'eras' to mean was/were + trait.
Words to know
- imperfect tense
- used to talk about habitual actions in the past or to describe how things were in the past
- era
- part of 'ser' in the imperfect tense meaning 'I, she, he, it was' or 'I, she, he, it used to be'
Common mistakes
The only way of saying 'I played' in Spanish is 'jugué'.
'I played' could be translated as 'jugué' or 'jugaba'. The preterite verb 'jugué' implies a single, completed action in the past, whereas the imperfect verb 'jugaba' implies a habitual action in the past.
For parents, carers and teachers
- You could consider providing students with the relevant infinitive verbs for task B1 if additional scaffolding is neccesary.