KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
Ser de otro país: perfect and preterite tenses
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Your learning goal
I can distinguish between the perfect and preterite tenses in the context of the societal integration of Latin American immigrants.
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Ser de otro país: perfect and preterite tenses: 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 distinguish between the perfect and preterite tenses in the context of the societal integration of Latin American immigrants.
Key learning points
- The perfect tense is used to express what has happened, e.g. 'I have listened', 'I have bought'.
- The preterite tense is used to express single, completed actions in the past, e.g. 'I listened', 'I bought'.
Words to know
- perfect tense
- used to express what has happened, e.g. 'I have listened', 'I have bought'
- preterite tense
- used to express single, completed actions in the past, e.g. 'I listened', 'I bought'
Common mistakes
The English translation of 'he visitado' is 'I visited'.
The perfect tense is used to express what has happened. The English translation of 'he visitado' is 'I have visited'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Some students may struggle to differentiate between 'he' and 'ha' in the perfect tense. As such, you could reinforce the difference using choral repetition when delivering the feedback for Task A1b, particularly for sentence 6.