Starter quiz
- Match the Spanish and English.
- la piedra⇔stone ✓
- por⇔in, through, around, by ✓
- sesenta⇔sixty ✓
- el recurso⇔resource ✓
- oigo⇔I hear ✓
- caer⇔to fall, falling ✓
- What is the stem of 'entregar'?
- 'entreg' ✓
- Match the verb with the person they refer to.
- aprendes⇔you ✓
- aprendo⇔I ✓
- aprende⇔she, he, it ✓
- Which of the following verbs end in '-go' for the 1st person singular in the present tense?
- caer ✓
- decir ✓
- escribir
- preguntar
- poner ✓
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- What is 'I say' in Spanish?
- decir
- dices
- digo ✓
- diciendo
- dice
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- What is 'with you' in Spanish?
- 'contigo' ✓
Exit quiz
- Match the Spanish and English.
- caliente⇔hot ✓
- la sangre⇔blood ✓
- la natación⇔swimming ✓
- la fila⇔queue ✓
- preguntar⇔to ask, asking ✓
- el invierno⇔winter ✓
- When revisiting vocabulary, practising words in __________, reading, __________ and writing is essential to really know a word.
- 'listening, speaking' ✓
- To talk about a completed action in the past we use the ______ tense.
- simple present
- present continuous
- preterite ✓
- imperfect
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- Complete the sequence with the appropriate forms of 'hacer' and 'ir' in the prerite: 'fui, __________, fue; __________, hiciste, __________.
- 'fuiste, hice, hizo' ✓
- Match the irregular verbs with the English.
- dije⇔I said ✓
- quise⇔I wanted ✓
- traje⇔I brought ✓
- puse⇔I put, I became ✓
- vine⇔I came ✓
- supe⇔I knew ✓
- How do you say 'I was' in the preterite? Use the verb 'estar'.
- 'estuve' ✓
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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 stems in the preterite tense: pude, vine, puse, quise, traje, estuve.
- The preterite tense of 'hacer' and 'ir': singular persons.
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.
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
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