What I and others do: -ar verbs 'I' and 'she, he' | Spanish

Starter quiz

Which of these words use the indefinite article 'un'?

estuche ✓

uniforme ✓

película

pregunta

libro ✓
Which words are infinitives?

cantar ✓

comprar ✓

hablo

escucho

llevar ✓
Which sentence means 'I listen in class'?

Escucha en clase

Escucho en clase ✓

Escuchar en casa
Match the English and the Spanish.

I speak

⇔

hablo ✓

to speak, speaking

⇔

hablar ✓

to buy, buying

⇔

comprar ✓

I buy

⇔

compro ✓

to need, needing

⇔

necesitar ✓

I need

⇔

necesito ✓
Look at this sentence 'Necesitar un estuche en una mochila es normal'. Put the different parts of speech in the order they appear in the sentence.

1

⇔

infinitive

2

⇔

masculine definite article + masculine noun

3

⇔

preposition

4

⇔

feminine definite article + feminine noun

5

⇔

verb

6

⇔

adjective
Change 'Llevo un sombrero en casa' ('I wear a hat at home') to 'Wearing a hat at home'.

'Llevar un sombrero en casa.' ✓

Match the Spanish and the English.

libro

⇔

book ✓

llamar

⇔

to call, calling ✓

amarillo

⇔

yellow ✓

salir

⇔

to leave, leaving ✓

luz

⇔

light ✓

ella

⇔

she ✓
To mean 'I', we remove -ar at the end of the infinitive and add ...

a

o ✓

e
Match the Spanish and the English.

infinitive

⇔

escuchar ✓

'I' verb form

⇔

escucho ✓

'she, he' verb form

⇔

escucha ✓

question word for 'where'

⇔

dónde ✓

question word for 'how'

⇔

cómo ✓
'Hablo en clase'. Which is correct?

I read in class. ✓

She reads in class.

He reads in class.

Reading in class.
Which sentence says 'She sings at home'?

Canto en casa.

Cantar en casa.

Canto en clase.

Canta en casa. ✓

Canta en clase.
Translate this sentence: 'Hoy, habla en clase'.

'Today, he/she speaks in class.' ✓

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The sound-symbol correspondences [ll] and [l] can be contrasted and secured in a pronunciation game.
To mean 'I' with a verb, the -ar verb ending changes to -o, e.g. 'hablo', I speak.
To mean 'she, he, it' with a verb, the -ar verb ending changes to -a, e.g. 'habla', she, he, it speaks.

The [l] and [ll] sounds are pronounced the same in Spanish.

The [l] and [ll] sounds are pronounced differently in Spanish; the [ll] sound is pronounced as in 'amarillo' and 'llamar'.

[l] - pronouced as in 'libro'
[ll] - pronounced as in 'llamar'
1st person singular - form of pronoun and verbs used to refer to yourself
3rd person singular - form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to other people e.g. she, he, it