Year 10 - Spanish
Conflictos: imperfect 'ir', 'ver', 'ser', reflexive pronouns 'me', 'te' and 'se'
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Unit Summary
This unit focuses on revisiting the imperfect tense. Pupils revisit imperfect forms of 'ir', 'ver', 'ser', -ar, -er, and -ir verbs. They use imperfect forms of 'estar' with a present participle for events in progress in the past, and use the preterite for interruptions.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use regular and irregular verbs together with reflexive pronouns in order to understand what life was life for different people during a conflict.
Key Notes
- Víctor Jara was a Chilean songwriter victim of Pinochet's regime due to his political activism and support of democracy.
- The imperfect tense is used to talk about something that used to happen repeatedly.
- The verbs 'ir' ('to go, going'), 'ser' ('to be, being') and 'ver' ('to see, seeing') are irregular in the imperfect.
- In the imperfect tense, -ar verbs have different endings to -er and -ir verbs.
- In two-verb modal structures, reflexive pronouns can go before the first verb or after the infinitive, attached to it.
Vocabulary To Learn
- imperfect: verb tense used to talk about something that used to happen repeatedly
- era: 1st and 3rd person singular of the irregular verb 'ser' in the imperfect tense
- iba: 1st and 3rd person singular of the irregular verb 'ir' in the imperfect tense
- veía: 1st and 3rd person singular of the irregular verb 'ver' in the imperfect tense
- reflexive pronoun: used to indicate doing something to yourself, words like 'myself', 'yourself', 'herself' and 'himself'.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Reflexive pronouns always come before the conjugated verb.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
Víctor Jara was a Chilean songwriter victim of Pinochet's regime due to his political activism and support of democracy. The imperfect tense is used to talk about something that used to happen repeatedly.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'imperfect'
verb tense used to talk about something that used to happen repeatedly. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: Reflexive pronouns always come before the conjugated verb. Correction: Reflexive pronouns can go in two plaes: before the conjugated verb or or after the infinitive, attached to it, with 2-verb modal structures.
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