KS4 · Spanish · Year 11
Entre amigos: preterite and imperfect, role-play (Edexcel)
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Your learning goal
I can understand and translate verbs in the preterite and imperfect tenses, and respond confidently to role-play scenarios relating to family and celebrations.
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I can understand and translate verbs in the preterite and imperfect tenses, and respond confidently to role-play scenarios relating to family and celebrations.
Key learning points
- To conjugate regular -are verbs in the preterite tense, use the endings -é, -aste, -ó, -amos, -asteis, -aron.
- To conjugate regular -er/-ir verbs in the preterite tense, use the endings -í, -iste, -ió, -imos, -isteis, -ieron.
- To conjugate regular -ar verbs in the imperfect tense, use the endings -aba, -abas, -aba, -ábamos, -ábais, -aban.
- To conjugate regular -er/-ir verbs in the imperfect tense, use the endings -ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -íais, -ían.
- The only irregular verbs in the imperfect tense are 'ir' ('iba'), 'ser' ('era') and 'ver' ('veía').
Words to know
- preterite
- tense used to express completed events in the past
- imperfect
- tense used to describe how things were or used to be in the past
Common mistakes
The only translation of 'I visited' in Spanish is 'visité'.
In Spanish, 'visité' means 'I visited' for a single, completed action in the past. You could also, however, use 'visitaba' to mean 'I visited' for an action that happened repeatedly over a period of time.
For parents, carers and teachers
- It is important to be aware of the fact that Edexcel does not require role-play answers to contain a verb, whereas AQA does.