Year 8 - Spanish
Excursions and trips: 'fui', 'fuiste' and 'fue'
Weekend activities and holidays: 'hacer' and 'ir'
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Unit Summary
This unit introduces singular preterite forms for irregular verbs 'hacer' and 'ir', and revisits their present tense singular forms. Pupils combine adverbs of location with 'del' and 'de la' and use forms of 'ir' with 'al' and 'a la'. Pupils revisit final syllable stress.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use the singular forms of 'ir' in the preterite tense to describe where you and others went.
Key Notes
- If a Spanish word has final syllable stress, and ends in a vowel or -n/-s, there will be an accent on the last vowel.
- The verb 'ir' is irregular and means 'to go'. 'I go' is 'voy', 'you go' is 'vas' and 'she, he, it goes' is 'va'.
- In the preterite tense the singular forms of 'ir' are: 'fui' (I went), 'fuiste' (you went) and 'fue' (she, he, it went).
- 'To' is 'a' in Spanish; before a feminine noun 'to the' is 'a la', before a masculine noun it is 'al'.
- To create some Spanish adverbs from adjectives you take the feminine form (ending in -a) and add -mente on the end.
Vocabulary To Learn
- ir: Spanish verb meaning 'to go, going'
- preterite: tense used for events completed in the past
- fui: 'I went', preterite tense of 'ir' in the 1st person singular
- fuiste: 'you went', preterite tense of 'ir' in the 2nd person singular
- fue: 'she, he, it went', preterite tense of 'ir' in the 3rd person singular
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- I know 'ir' in the present tense, so it will be easy to remember it in the preterite tense.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
If a Spanish word has final syllable stress, and ends in a vowel or -n/-s, there will be an accent on the last vowel. The verb 'ir' is irregular and means 'to go'. 'I go' is 'voy', 'you go' is 'vas' and 'she, he, it goes' is 'va'.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'ir'
Spanish verb meaning 'to go, going'. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: I know 'ir' in the present tense, so it will be easy to remember it in the preterite tense. Correction: 'Ir' is an irregular verb in both the present and the preterite tense. This verb is very common and therefore needs to be learnt off by heart.
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