KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
Los días de colegio: 1st person singular present tense with 'g', e.g. 'pongo'
My personal world: la vida fuera y dentro del colegio
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Your learning goal
I can talk about a typical school day using regular and irregular verbs in the present tense.
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I can talk about a typical school day using regular and irregular verbs in the present tense.
Key learning points
- [u] and [i] are weak vowels and they merge with other vowels making a single syllable.
- 'Contigo' is a pronoun and it means 'with you'.
- Some verbs have an irregular stem and add a -g- in 1st person singular, present tense: pongo, vengo, hago, digo - digo.
Words to know
- present tense
- describes habitual events in the present: 'I do'
- irregular verb
- a verb that does not follow the regular rules
- Stem
- part of the verb that appears in all forms
Common mistakes
Verbs like 'poner', 'venir' and 'hacer' follow the rules of regular -er/-ir verbs in the present tense.
Verbs like 'poner', 'venir' and 'hacer' are irregular and add -g- in the 1st person singular present (e.g. 'pongo', 'vengo', 'hago', and 'decir' - 'digo').
For parents, carers and teachers
- Teachers can add an element of competition to the last writing task by awarding points for using words featuring in the lesson to ensure students are producing the targeted language.