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Un viaje escolar: irregular preterite stems, preterite 'ir', 'hacer'

I can use irregular verbs in the preterite when talking about a school trip.

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Un viaje escolar: irregular preterite stems, preterite 'ir', 'hacer'

I can use irregular verbs in the preterite when talking about a school trip.

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Key learning points

  1. Knowing a word means you can understand it in listening and reading but also use it in speaking and writing.
  2. Formation of plural nouns rule 4: when a word ends in -ión, add -es and remove the accent.
  3. Cognates may look very similar to English but sound quite different so attention must be paid to pronunciation.
  4. 1st person singular of verbs with irregular stems in the preterite tense: pude, vine, puse, quise, traje, estuve.
  5. The preterite tense of 'hacer' and 'ir': singular persons.

Keywords

  • 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 misconception

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.


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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.
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6 Questions

Q1.
Match the Spanish and English.
Correct Answer:la piedra,stone
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stone

Correct Answer:por,in, through, around, by
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in, through, around, by

Correct Answer:sesenta,sixty
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sixty

Correct Answer:el recurso,resource
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resource

Correct Answer:oigo,I hear
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I hear

Correct Answer:caer,to fall, falling
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to fall, falling

Q2.
What is the stem of 'entregar'?
Correct Answer: entreg, entreg-
Q3.
Match the verb with the person they refer to.
Correct Answer:aprendes,you
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you

Correct Answer:aprendo,I
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I

Correct Answer:aprende,she, he, it
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she, he, it

Q4.
Which of the following verbs end in '-go' for the 1st person singular in the present tense?
Correct answer: caer
Correct answer: decir
escribir
preguntar
Correct answer: poner
Q5.
What is 'I say' in Spanish?
decir
dices
Correct answer: digo
diciendo
dice
Q6.
What is 'with you' in Spanish?
Correct Answer: contigo, Contigo

6 Questions

Q1.
Match the Spanish and English.
Correct Answer:caliente,hot
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hot

Correct Answer:la sangre,blood
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blood

Correct Answer:la natación,swimming
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swimming

Correct Answer:la fila,queue
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queue

Correct Answer:preguntar,to ask, asking
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to ask, asking

Correct Answer:el invierno,winter
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winter

Q2.
When revisiting vocabulary, practising words in __________, reading, __________ and writing is essential to really know a word.
Correct Answer: listening, speaking, speaking, listening
Q3.
To talk about a completed action in the past we use the tense.
simple present
present continuous
Correct answer: preterite
imperfect
Q4.
Complete the sequence with the appropriate forms of 'hacer' and 'ir' in the prerite: 'fui, __________, fue; __________, hiciste, __________.
Correct Answer: fuiste, hice, hizo
Q5.
Match the irregular verbs with the English.
Correct Answer:dije,I said
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I said

Correct Answer:quise,I wanted
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I wanted

Correct Answer:traje,I brought
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I brought

Correct Answer:puse,I put, I became
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I put, I became

Correct Answer:vine,I came
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I came

Correct Answer:supe,I knew
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I knew

Q6.
How do you say 'I was' in the preterite? Use the verb 'estar'.
Correct Answer: estuve, Estuve

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