KS3 · Spanish · Year 8
News and media: -er verbs in 1st person plural
Comparing what people do: -ER and -IR verbs
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Your learning goal
I can use -er verbs in 1st person singular (I) and 1st person plural (we) to understand and talk about activities a journalist does.
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I can use -er verbs in 1st person singular (I) and 1st person plural (we) to understand and talk about activities a journalist does.
Key learning points
- If the stress is on the final syllable of a Spanish word ending in 'n' or 's', there is an accent on the last vowel.
- Words ending in others consonants have final syllable stress and no accent, e.g. 'beber'.
- Using the surrounding words in a sentence helps to work out the meaning of unfamiliar words.
- The 1st person plural (we) ending for present tense -er verbs is -emos. The 1st person singular (I) ending is -o.
Words to know
- final syllable stress
- pronouncing the final syllable more heavily than other syllables in a word
- -er verb
- verb whose infinitive form ends in -er
- 1st person plural
- form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to 'we'
Common mistakes
To say what 'we do' instead of what 'I do' in Spanish, you just change the pronoun from 'I' to 'we' and keep the verb the same.
In Spanish it's the verb ending and not the pronoun that changes the subject of the verb, so you need to pay close attention to the verb form to know who is doing the action of the verb, e.g. 'I sell' - 'vendo', 'we sell' - 'vendemos'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The final writing activity could be followed up by an oral simultaneous translation task, where students say a sentence and their partner translates it. Some may find this challenging to do on the spot, so this speaking activity could be done by some students, while other students continue writing.