KS3 · Spanish · Year 9
Weather in Chile: 'hace' and 'hizo'
Countries: 'hacer', -ar verbs
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Your learning goal
I can use singular forms of 'hacer' in the preterite tense to describe what I and others did in Chile, as well as what the weather is and was like in Chile.
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I can use singular forms of 'hacer' in the preterite tense to describe what I and others did in Chile, as well as what the weather is and was like in Chile.
Key learning points
- To describe completed events in the past in Spanish we use the preterite tense.
- The singular preterite forms of 'hacer' are 'hice' (I did/made), 'hiciste' (you did/made) and 'hizo' (she, he did/made).
- When contrasting what different people do or did, we use subject pronouns in Spanish (e.g. 'yo', 'tú', 'él', 'ella').
- Chile is a Latin American country which has very varied weather because of its long, narrow shape.
- In English we use the verb 'to be' for the weather but in Spanish we use the verb 'hacer', e.g. 'hace sol' (it's sunny).
Words to know
- preterite tense
- tense used for events completed in the past, e.g. 'I did'
- hacer
- verb 'to do, doing' and 'to make, making'; also means ‘it is’ in weather phrases
- hice
- I did, made
- hiciste
- you (singular) did, made
- hizo
- he, she, it did, made
Common mistakes
We use 'ser' to describe the weather in Spanish.
In English we use the verb 'to be' for the weather (e.g. 'it is cold'), but in Spanish the verb 'hacer' is used. For example, to say 'it is sunny' you would say 'hace sol'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- When learning weather phrases, songs and mimes can be really helpful to fix the learning in the longer-term memory. There are lots of examples online, or teachers may encourage their classes to create their own weather songs to a familiar tune.