Year 6 - Spanish
Household chores: -ar and -er verbs 'we' form
What we like to do: -er and -ar verbs in the 'we' form; 2-verb phrases
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils use newly introduced 2-verb structures with opinion verbs 'amar' and 'odiar' to say what they like and hate doing, and modal verbs 'deber' and 'querer' to say what they must do and want to do. Contexts include household chores, rules at school, Lanzarote in summer and a poem.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to say what household chores we do and they do and what chores we love and hate.
Key Notes
- Reading and writing known and unknown words improves pronunciation and knowledge of sound-spelling correspondences.
- To mean 'we' with an -ar verb, remove -ar ending and add -amos. To mean 'they', remove -ar ending and add -an.
- To mean 'we' with an -er verb, remove -er ending and add -emos. To mean 'they', remove -er ending and add -en.
- To say we 'love, hate to do' something, use the 'we' form of 'amar' and 'odiar' followed by the infinitive.
- In English, phrases like 'we love' and 'we hate' can be followed by the infinitive (to + verb) or the gerund (-ing).
Vocabulary To Learn
- -ar verb: a verb whose infiinitive ends in -ar
- -er verb: a verb whose infinitive ends in -er
- infinitive: form of the verb found in a dictionary giving the general meaning of the verb
- gerund: the -ing form of the verb that functions as a noun in a sentence
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- When talking about what we like and hate, we change the ending of 'amar' or 'odiar' to say who loves or hates something and use the gerund (-ing form) of the following verb.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
Reading and writing known and unknown words improves pronunciation and knowledge of sound-spelling correspondences. To mean 'we' with an -ar verb, remove -ar ending and add -amos. To mean 'they', remove -ar ending and add -an.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. '-ar verb'
a verb whose infiinitive ends in -ar. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: When talking about what we like and hate, we change the ending of 'amar' or 'odiar' to say who loves or hates something and use the gerund (-ing form) of the following verb. Correction: We change the ending of 'amar' or 'odiar' to say who loves or hates something, but the verb that follows is in the infinitive.
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