KS3 · Spanish · Year 8

Sustainability activities: -ar verbs singular persons preterite

Activities past and present: -ar verbs, pronouns, adverbs

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I can use -ar verbs in the preterite to talk about what I and others do to live sustainably.

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What you’ll learn

I can use -ar verbs in the preterite to talk about what I and others do to live sustainably.

Key learning points

When revisiting vocabulary it's important to revise different parts of speech: verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs.
Verbs communicate actions or states, e.g. -ar verbs - 'sacar', -er verbs - 'recoger', -ir verbs - 'subir'.
Adjectives give information about a noun (person, place, thing). Prenominal adjectives go before the noun; most follow.
Adverbs describe a verb or an adjective, e.g. adverbs of frequency - 'por la tarde’ or adverbs of place - ‘lejos (de)'.
To mean 'I' for a preterite verb, we remove the -ar and add -é, for 'you' we add -aste, and for ‘she, he, it’ we add -ó.

Words to know

verb: word that communicates actions or states
noun: word for a person, place, or thing
adjective: word that gives information about a noun
adverb: word that describes a verb or an adjective
preterite: describes completed events in the past, e.g. 'I did'

Common mistakes

Accents don't affect how we pronounce Spanish words.

Accents are very important and can differentiate between past and present. When we pronounce words with accents, we must remember to stress that syllable. For example, the verb 'caminó' means 'he, she, it walked' while 'camino' means 'I walk'.

For parents, carers and teachers

Following the text in task B1, the teacher might want to ask students to write a short text about what they did to help their community.