KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
Un viaje escolar: irregular preterite stems, preterite 'ir', 'hacer'
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Your learning goal
I can use irregular verbs in the preterite when talking about a school trip.
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I can use irregular verbs in the preterite when talking about a school trip.
Key learning points
- Knowing a word means you can understand it in listening and reading but also use it in speaking and writing.
- Formation of plural nouns rule 4: when a word ends in -ión, add -es and remove the accent.
- Cognates may look very similar to English but sound quite different so attention must be paid to pronunciation.
- 1st person singular of verbs with irregular preterite stems: dije, estuve, pude, puse, quise, supe, traje and vine.
- The singular persons of irregular verbs ‘ir’ and ‘hacer’ are: ‘fui’, ‘fuiste’, ‘fue’, ‘hice’, ‘hiciste’ and ‘hizo’.
Words to know
- preterite tense
- a tense used for events completed in the past
- irregular verb
- a verb that does not follow the regular rules
- stem
- part of the verb that appears in all forms
Common mistakes
Cognates are words that look and sound like English.
Cognates may look very similar to English but sound quite different so attention must be paid to pronunciation.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Teachers can use this as an opportunity to get students to write about a school trip they have been to, not necessarily an exchange. This would also involve retrieving prior knowledge: regular -ar, -er and -ir preterite.