Transcript Topic: Weather and the preterit

Topic: Weather and
the preterit
Essential questions: How do I talk about the weather and
how do I discuss things that happened?
The weather
• Weather in Spanish is an interesting concept because most of
the time you use the verb “hacer”.
• You ask with these questions:
• ¿Qué tiempo hace? Or ¿Cómo está el clima? Or ¿Que tal el
tiempo/el clima?
The weather
• You answer with any of the following
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Hace buen/mal tiempo. (The weather is good/bad.)
Hace calor/frío/sol. (It’s hot/cold/sunny.)
Hace ____ grados. Está a _____ grados. (It is ____ degrees.)
Está nublado. (It’s cloudy)
Llueve./Está lloviendo. (It’s raining.)
Nieva./Está nevando. (It’s snowing)
Pausa…
• Tell your pareja 4 things you understand.
• Write 3 questions and mark the answers
The preterit
• This year you have learned how to express what you do
(present tense), what you are doing right now (present
progressive) and what you are going to do (ir+a+infinitive)
• The preterit is a new tense to learn – it is used to state what
you did or what happened. It is the past tense
The preterit
• Like the present tense, to conjugate the preterit, you first take
off the ending (ar, er, ir) and then replace it with a new set of
endings. There are two sets – one for –ar verbs and one for –
er/-ir verbs.
The preterit
• For –ar verbs, the endings are:
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Yo: -é
Tú: -aste
Él/ella/Ud: -ó
Nosotros: -amos
Ellos/ellas/Uds: -aron
• Hablar: hablé, hablaste, habló, hablamos, hablaron
The preterit
• For –er and –ir verbs, the endings are:
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Yo: -í
Tú: -iste
Él/ella/Ud: -ió
Nosotros: -imos
Ellos/ellas/Uds: -ieron
• Comer: comí, comiste, comió, comimos, comieron
Pausa…
• Share 5 facts you understand with your pareja
• Write 5 questions and mark the answers
Some spelling issues
• In some verbs, the “yo” form has some spelling changes to
maintain the right sound.
• Verbs that end in “gar” in the yo form of the preterit will end
in –gué (the only way to spell the sound “geh” in Spanish is
“gue”)
• Jugar: jugué, jugaste, jugó, jugamos jugaron
• Verbs that end in “car” in the yo form of the preterit will in
end in –qué (the only way to spell the sound “kay” in Spanish
is “que”)
• Tocar: toqué, tocaste, tocó, tocamos, tocaron
• Verbs that end in “zar” in the yo form of the preterit will end
in –cé (you can’t have “ze” combination in Spanish)
• Empezar: empecé, empezaste, empezó, empezamos, empezaron
Irregular verbs
• There are many irregular verbs in the preterit. You will learn
three.
• Ver (to see…irregular only because it has NO accents) vi, viste,
vio, vimos, vieron
• Ir (to go) fui, fuiste, fue, fuimos, fueron
• Dar (to give…irregular because it acts like an –er verb and it has
no accents) di, diste, dio, dimos, dieron
Pausa
• Share 5 new facts you understand with your pareja
• Write 3 more questions and mark the answers
Try it…
• Conjugate these verbs in all forms of the preterit
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Trabajar
Estudiar
Recibir
Nadar
Escribir
Comprar
Tomar
Check it
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Trabajar: trabajé, trabajaste, trabajó, trabajamos, trabajaron
Estudiar: estudié, estudiaste, estudió, estudiamos, estudiaron
Recibir: recibí, recibiste, recibió, recibimos, recibieron
Nadar: nadé, nadaste, nadó, nadamos, nadaron
Escribir: escribí, escribiste, escribió, escribimos, escribieron
Comprar: compré, compraste, compró, compramos,
compraron
• Tomar: tomé, tomaste, tomó, tomamos, tomaron
Try it again…
• Write in Spanish:
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I went to school yesterday.
¿Did you swim?
Bob saw a movie
My friends gave me a book.
We ate bananas.
Check it…
• I went to school yesterday.
• Fui a la escuela ayer.
• ¿Did you swim?
• ¿Nadaste?
• Bob saw a movie.
• Bob vio una película.
• My friends gave me a book.
• Mis amigos me dieron un libro.
• We ate bananas.
• Comimos bananas.
Don’t forget your summary
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What did you learn?
What was most important?
How does it relate to what you already know?
What was easiest?
What will be most challenging?
Practicar
• Pick another 5 verbs you have learned. Conjugate them like
you had to do in your notes.
• Write and translate 10 sentences using the preterit tense.
• Write and translate 5 sentences about weather and when it is
that weather (Ex: It’s cold in the winter.)