Learning to tell our stories: Regular Preterite Verbs
Introduction
In this lesson you will learn to conjugate regular preterite verbs. This will include verbs ending in AR, ER, and IR.
Pre-test
Take the short pre-test below to show me what you already know, and how you learn best!
Video #1
Watch the first four minutes of the video below. Take notes as you watch.
Lingo Learner. (2018, January 7). Preterite/pretérito in Spanish how to form it & learn it! Easy animated explanation for beginners [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4SiKCStHuU&feature=youtu.be
Video #2 : Practice Activity
Listen to the song "Consejo de Amor" by Tini y Morat. Highlight each verb in the lyrics that is conjugated in the regular preterite tense. Click the Doc below to view the lyrics.
Assessment Activity:
Write your own story entitled "Ayer"
Choose 2-3 main characters
These can be animals, people, talking food, or anything else that interests you
Write an outline
What will happen at the beginning, middle, and end of your story? Remember, the theme is "yesterday" or "ayer".
Write it!
Write the story using recent vocabulary and words you already know. Do your best to include 10 preterite verbs to tell us what happened to your character yesterday.
Check it!
Check each past tense verb and make sure it is correctly conjugated. Then check your work against the rubric to see how you will be scored.
Summary
In this lesson you learned how to conjugate verbs in the preterite tense to begin to speak and write in the past tense. You identified examples of these verbs in music, and created your own story using your new skills.
Up Next...
Lesson 2: Irregular Preterite Verbs.
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