KS4 · Spanish · Year 11
El fútbol: regular and irregular -er / -ir verbs
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Your learning goal
I can transcribe and conjugate a range of regular and irregular -er /-ir verbs in the context of football.
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I can transcribe and conjugate a range of regular and irregular -er /-ir verbs in the context of football.
Key learning points
- Some verb forms contain orthographic changes. These are spelling changes made to preserve or aid pronunciation.
- Some -er / -ir verbs with ‘g’ in the stem change to 'j' in the 1st person singular to preserve the soft [g] sound.
- Verbs ending in -uir gain a 'y' in persons 1,2,3 and 6 to aid pronunciation.
Words to know
- orthographic change
- spelling change in certain forms of a verb to preserve or aid pronunciation
Common mistakes
The 1st person singular form of 'influir' is 'influo'.
The verb 'influir' does not follow the normal pattern of -ir verbs. Verbs ending in -uir gain a 'y' in persons 1,2,3 and 6 to aid pronunciation. As such, the 1st person singular forms of 'influir' is 'influyo'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- In Learning Cycle 1, slides 9-13 and Task A2 contain Higher Tier vocabulary. In Learning Cycle 2, verbs like 'influir' is a Higher Tier grammatical concept, but reference to these in the explanation and tasks could be easily removed for Foundation Tier students.