KS3 · Spanish · Year 9
Holiday activities: -ar, -er, -ir verbs 1st person plural present and preterite
Plans for the holidays: 'ir' + a + infinitive
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Your learning goal
I can use -ar, -er and -ir verbs in the preterite tense to describe past holiday activities.
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I can use -ar, -er and -ir verbs in the preterite tense to describe past holiday activities.
Key learning points
- For regular -er verbs, the verb ending -emos refers to 'we' in the present tense.
- For regular -er verbs, the verb ending -imos refers to 'we' in the preterite tense.
- For regular -ir verbs, the verb ending -imos refers to 'we' in the present and preterite tenses.
- For regular -ar verbs, the verb ending -amos refers to 'we' in the present and preterite tenses.
Words to know
- preterite
- tense used for completed events in the past
- 1st person plural
- form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to 'we'
Common mistakes
-er verbs have the same ending in the 1st person plural of the present and preterite tenses.
Unlike -ir verbs, -er verbs do not have the same ending in these tenses. The verb ending -emos is used in the present tense and -imos is used in the preterite tense.
For parents, carers and teachers
- While introducing Task C2, teachers may wish to highlight how Spanish colonial conquests during the 1500s and 1600s led to the fall of the Maya civilisation and imposition of Spanish language and culture in South and Central America.