KS3 · Spanish · Year 8
Summer experiences: -ar verbs 1st person present and past
Contrasting past and present events: -AR verbs singular persons
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Your learning goal
I can say what I normally do and what I did in the summer.
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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can say what I normally do and what I did in the summer.
Key learning points
- The 1st person singular preterite of -ar verbs ends in '-é'
- The 1st person singular present of -ar verbs ends in '-o'
- To make a sentence negative we put the negation word 'no' before the verb.
Words to know
- -ar verbs
- a verb whose infinitive form ends in -ar, e.g. 'estudiar', 'cantar'
- present tense
- a verb tense to describe habitual 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
-AR verbs have the same ending for the 'I' form of the present and preterite tense.
In the present tense, the 1st person singular ends in '-o' and in the preterite, the 1st person singular ends in '-é'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The teacher might want to ask pupils to complete activity C3 as a writing activity as well for students to practise spelling the new vocabulary.