Transcript Unit 4B: Labolengua

Unit 4B Labolengua
Verbs and opinions
Unit 4B: Labolengua
Ayer, hoy y mañana
Putting it all together! Here’s how you talk about what you do, what you did and what
you are going to do.
Normalmente desayuno a las siete. Ayer desayuné a las
siete y cuarto. Mañana es sábado – ¡voy a desayunar a las
diez!
Normally I eat breakfast at 7 o’clock. Yesterday I ate
breakfast at a quarter past seven. Tomorrow is Saturday –
I’m going to eat breakfast at 10 o’clock!
Normally / today – present tense
Yesterday / last week – preterite tense
Tomorrow / next week – immediate future tense
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Lo bueno y lo malo –
expressing opinions
lo bueno es que ... - a/the good thing is that ...
lo malo es que. .. - a/the bad thing is that …
Me gusta ver las telenovelas. Lo bueno es que son
divertidas. Lo malo es que son tontas.
I like watching TV soaps. The good thing is that they’re fun.
The bad thing is that they’re silly.
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Unit 4B: Labolengua
Remembering irregular verbs
Sometimes it can seem that there are a lot of verbs to remember. But when
you are using the preterite (past) tense, for most verbs you only need to
remember the 1st person (I did something) and the rest follows a pattern.
poner = to put
Ayer puse la revista en la televisión. = Yesterday I put the
newspaper on the TV.
Poner is an -er verb, and uses the same endings you have
learnt for other irregular verbs like tener and hacer. They are very
similar to the regular endings for -er verbs.
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poner
comer
puse
comí
pusiste
comiste
puso
comió
pusimos
comimos
pusisteis
comisteis
pusieron
comieron
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Irregular verbs
With irregular verbs, to form the preterite you need to know what the
first person preterite looks like. Then you can follow the
same pattern, adding the appropriate endings. Here
are the first person (I) preterite forms for some useful
irregular verbs.
• navegar – navegué
• jugar – jugué
• ver – vi
• leer - leí
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