KS3 · Spanish · Year 9
School events: -ar verbs 1st and 3rd person
Times of change: -er, -ir, -ar verbs 1st and 3rd person
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Your learning goal
I can use -ar verbs in the preterite tense to describe a languages festival at school.
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I can use -ar verbs in the preterite tense to describe a languages festival at school.
Key learning points
- Preterite-tense -ar verbs have the ending -amos in the 1st person singular.
- Preterite-tense -ar verbs have the ending -aron in the 3rd person singular.
- The possessive adjective 'nuestro' means 'our' and agrees with the noun in gender and number.
- 'Nuestro' refers to a singular masculine noun and 'nuestra' refers to a singular feminine noun.
- 'Nuestros' refers to a plural masculine noun and 'nuestras' refers to a plural feminine noun.
Words to know
- 1st person plural
- form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to 'we'
- 3rd person plural
- form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to 'they'
- possessive adjective
- shows who something belongs to
Common mistakes
'Nuestro' does not agree with the noun in gender or number.
'Nuestro' agrees with the noun in both gender and number. 'Nuestro' and 'nuestros' refer to masculine nouns, while 'nuestra' and 'nuestras' refer to feminine nouns.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Task C2 could be done as a speaking activity in which pupils have to start with the shortest phrase and aim to get to the longest one each time. Alternatively, it could be done as a writing activity, allowing pupils more time to consider their response.