KS3 · Spanish · Year 7
When and where people go: 'ir' 1st person plural
Places and plans: 'ir' for present and future plans
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Your learning goal
I can use 'ir' in the present tense to understand and talk about when and where we go and another person goes.
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When and where people go: 'ir' 1st person plural: 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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I can use 'ir' in the present tense to understand and talk about when and where we go and another person goes.
Key learning points
- 'Ir' is a high frequency irregular verb; it is important to learn and remember its singular forms: voy, vas, va.
- 'Vamos' is the 1st person plural form of 'ir' and means 'we go'.
- To say 'to the' in Spanish, we use 'a la' before feminine nouns, and the contraction 'al' for masculine nouns.
Words to know
- [r]
- pronounced as in 'pero'
- [rr]
- pronounced as in 'perro'
- vamos
- means 'we go'
- al
- contraction of 'a + el', means 'to the' and is used for masculine nouns
Common mistakes
To say where someone goes, only 'a la/al' goes before the place.
If the place is a city or a country, 'a' goes before the place.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Students may like to expand their own vocabulary by thinking about places they like to go or places where they have been, and looking these up in Spanish.