KS4 · Spanish · Year 11
Pequeños cambios de dieta: singular affirmative commands
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Your learning goal
I can use imperatives and modal verbs to give advice and suggestions about healthy lifestyle changes.
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I can use imperatives and modal verbs to give advice and suggestions about healthy lifestyle changes.
Key learning points
- We use the affirmative imperative (a positive command) to tell somebody to do something or give instructions.
- For -ar verbs the ending is -a, and for -er and -ir verbs the ending is -e.
- Modal verbs express ideas like advice, possibility, or obligation. They are most often followed by an infinitive.
- Some key modal verbs to give advice are 'tener que', 'deber' and 'poder'.
Words to know
- imperative
- verb used to give advice or instructions, often informal or urgent
- modal verb
- verb of necessity or possibility used with a 2nd verb in the infinitive, e.g. 'must', 'can', 'want'
Common mistakes
The singular imperative form for 2nd person 'tú' is the same as the present tense ending: -as or -es.
The singular imperative form for 2nd person 'tú' is the same as the 3rd person present tense - the ending is -a for -ar verbs, and -e for -er and -ir verbs.
For parents, carers and teachers
- For Task B4, the teacher might want to ask students to record a video of themselves as if it were for a social media post.