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El mundo del trabajo: inflectional future - 'tendr-', 'har-', 'podr-'

Studying and my future: mi futuro en el trabajo

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Your learning goal

I can use irregular verbs in the inflectional future to make predictions about careers and lifestyle.

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What you’ll learn

I can use irregular verbs in the inflectional future to make predictions about careers and lifestyle.

Key learning points

  • A relative pronoun is a pronoun that introduces a relative clause.
  • A conjunction is a word that connects ideas between clauses in a sentence.
  • The word 'que' can be used as a relative pronoun or a conjunction.
  • The verb stems of 'tener', 'hacer' and 'poder' in the inflectional future are 'tendr-', 'har-' and 'podr-'.
  • You can tell if an action is in the past, present or future by looking at the relevant verb ending.

Words to know

relative pronoun
pronoun that introduces a relative clause
conjunction
word that connects ideas between clauses in a sentence
inflectional future
verb tense used to express what will happen
simple present
verb tense used to describe habitual events in the present
preterite
verb tense used for completed actions in the past

Common mistakes

The Spanish translation of 'I will have' is 'teneré'.

The verb 'tener' is irregular in the inflectional future. The Spanish translation of 'I will have' is 'tendré'.

For parents, carers and teachers
  • Starter Quiz Q2 contains Higher Tier vocabulary. Learning Cycle 1 also contains Higher Tier grammar, but explanation slide 8 and Task A1b are suitable for Foundation students. You could consider brainstorming relevant jobs and lifestyle vocabulary before Task B2 to provide extra scaffolding.
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