KS3 · Spanish · Year 8
Questions about the summer holidays: -ar verbs in 2nd person singular
Contrasting past and present events: -AR verbs singular persons
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Your learning goal
I can ask and answer questions about summer holidays using the present and preterite tenses.
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Questions about the summer holidays: -ar verbs in 2nd person singular: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
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I can ask and answer questions about summer holidays using the present and preterite tenses.
Key learning points
- When the SSC sounds [a], [e] and [o] appear together, they are pronounced separately.
- The 1st person singular preterite of -ar verbs ends in -é and 2nd person singular preterite in -aste.
- The 2nd person singular present of -ar verbs ends in -as.
- Question words are used to ask for specific information, e.g. '¿dónde?, '¿cómo?'.
Words to know
- strong vowels
- the letters [a], [e] and [o]
- question words
- words used to ask for specific information in a question, e.g. 'what', 'where', 'when'
- present
- a verb tense to describe routine events in the present, e.g. 'I do'
- preterite
- a verb tense to describe completed events in the past, e.g. 'I did'
Common mistakes
Two vowels together are always read as one vowel.
In Spanish, when two strong vowels [a], [e] or [i] appear next to each other they are pronounced separately. This is why we call them 'strong' vowels.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The teacher might want to do the question words activity as a written activity instead of a spoken one.