KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
Las Hogueras de San Juan: acabar de + infinitive, seguir + present participle
Travel and tourism: fiestas y costumbres
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Your learning goal
I can use 'acabar de' + infinitive to say what I have just done and 'seguir' + present participle to say what I am still doing at a festival.
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I can use 'acabar de' + infinitive to say what I have just done and 'seguir' + present participle to say what I am still doing at a festival.
Key learning points
- Use 'acabar de' + infinitive to mean 'to have just done' something.
- 'Seguir' + present participle is a two-verb structure meaning ‘to still be doing’ something.
- Present participles in Spanish normally end in -ando or -iendo.
- Las Hogueras de San Juan takes place every year on 23rd June in Alicante; it celebrates the arrival of summer.
Words to know
- infinitive
- form of the verb giving its general meaning, with no subject or tense, as it appears in the dictionary
- present participle
- present tense verb form; in English this ends in -ing
- acabar de + infinitive
- two-verb structure that means 'to have just' + past participle
- seguir + present participle
- two-verb structure that means 'to still be' + present participle
Common mistakes
A past participle is used after 'acabar de'.
An infinitive is used after 'acabar de'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- 'Acabar de' + infinitive and 'seguir' + present participle are Higher tier grammar features. Teachers may still want to teach these structures to their students for their usefulness, but at Foundation tier students will not be expected to recognise or produce them.