KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
La fiesta del pueblo: -er/-ir preterite 3rd person singular and plural
Travel and tourism: fiestas y costumbres
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Your learning goal
I can use -er and -ir verbs to ask and answer questions about a local festival.
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I can use -er and -ir verbs to ask and answer questions about a local festival.
Key learning points
- Working with a partner is a useful way to practise vocabulary; repeat tricky words several times to remember them.
- 'Fiestas del pueblo' are festivals in a town or village, typically in summer, where there is music, food, and tradition.
- Regular -er and -ir verbs in the 3rd person singular and plural preterite have the endings -ió (s/he) and -ieron (they).
- Questions are expressed through intonation; there is no word for 'do' or 'did'.
Words to know
- infinitive
- form of the verb giving its general meaning, with no subject or tense, as it appears in the dictionary
- preterite
- verb tense used to talk about something completed in the past
- 3rd person singular
- form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to 'she', 'he', 'it'
- 3rd person plural
- form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to 'they’
Common mistakes
There is always a word for 'do' or 'did' in Spanish.
There is no word for 'do' or 'did' in Spanish questions.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Teachers may find it useful to include short starter activities in most lessons to revisit verb meanings and forms, as without plentiful practice, many pupils find these harder to retain over time than nouns or adjectives. The vocabulary practice task A1 has Option 1 (H) and Option 2 (F).