KS3 · Spanish · Year 8
Socialising: -ar verbs 1st person present, 3rd person preterite
Activities past and present: -ar verbs, pronouns, adverbs
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Your learning goal
I can use present and past tense verbs to talk about socialising online.
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Socialising: -ar verbs 1st person present, 3rd person preterite: 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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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can use present and past tense verbs to talk about socialising online.
Key learning points
- [ce], [ci] and [z] sound like the 'th' in 'think' in most of Spain, and 's' in Latin America and the Canary Islands.
- Listening deepens vocabulary knowledge and speeds up processing, supported by six pre-, in- and post-listening steps.
- 'Mucho' and 'poco' are both adverbs and adjectives. Adverb endings don't change, adjective endings match the noun.
- Spanish -ar verb endings change depending on who the verb refers to and when the action takes place.
- 1st person singular present tense -ar verbs end in -o. 3rd person singular preterite verbs end in -ó.
Words to know
- present
- describes habitual events in the present, e.g. 'I do'
- preterite
- describes completed events in the past, e.g. 'I did'
Common mistakes
'Hablo' and 'habló' mean the same.
The 1st person of the present ends in -o, e.g. 'hablo', meaning 'I speak'. The 3rd person of the preterite ends in -ó, e.g. 'habló', meaning 'she, he, it spoke'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The teacher might consider printing out the sentences from activity B2 for students to annotate and highlight.