El Pretérito: ER and IR verbs, ser, ir, dar and ver.

Remember that we use the preterite tense to talk about actions that took place in the past.

Practica en estos enlaces:

Charts to review regular and irregular preterite forms

Challenge board, AR and ER verbs

Fill in the blanks

The story of Alicia and David

Conjugate regular preterite forms

Columns verb “ver”

Battleship verb “ir”

Quiz

Crossword: irregular verbs

El Pretérito: AR verbs

We are going to learn one of the past tenses we have in Spanish: el pretérito.

First, we will know how to conjugate the preterite of AR verbs.

The verbs ending in -car, -gar and -zar have an irregular preterite.

Did you get it?  You may need to practice…

Preterite endings

Jeopardy

Challenge board

Pop-up

Drag and drop

Irregular AR preterites

Rags to riches

Rags to riches -car, -gar, -zar

Possessive adjectives

Click on the chart for an animated presentation.

Puedes practicar en estos enlaces:

Multiple choice

Basic quiz

Quiz 2

Interrogative words

Questions and interrogative words in Spanish are not difficult once you understand how they work:)

Vamos a aprender algunas palabras interrogativas:

Let’s learn a little bit more about questions:

¿Necesitas practicar? Try the following links.

Matching

Crossword

Battleship

Fill in the blanks

Question words quiz

Making questions quiz

El verbo querer

Look at the conjugation and different uses of verb querer.

Ahora, practica mientras escuchas la canción de “Tequila” – Dime que me quieres.

Stem-changing verbs in the present tense

Let’s learn how to conjugate a stem-changing or “boot verb” in the present tense.

Click here for a complete chart of the stem-changing verbs.

Ahora, vamos a practicar:

Concentration and matching (meanings of some stem-changing verbs)

Rags to riches

Fill in the blanks

Fill in the blanks 2

Irregular AR verbs in the present tense

Have you learned the irregular conjugation of dar, estar and ir? ¿Estás seguro? Puedes practicar más…

Challenge board

Fill in the blanks

Matching and concentration

Columns

Self Quiz

Spanish I – AR verbs flashcards

The students of Spanish I have been working on a project to create flashcards of the AR verbs in the present tense.

Look at this, isn’t it great?

Tener expressions

Tener is an irregular -ER verb. It means “to have” but it is very used in expressions like tengo hambre and tengo sed (literally: I have hunger, I have thirst).

Practise while playing games!

• Tener conjugation: concentration, multiple choice.

• Tener expressions: word search, matching, battleship.

Presente de los verbos acabados en -ER y en -IR

We have already learned how to conjugate an -AR verb in the present tense.

If you remember how it works, it is very similar with the -ER and the -IR verbs, you only have to learn the endings.

Let’s compare the present tense of the three groups:

You will have noticed that the endings of the ER and the IR verbs are the same, except for the “nosotros” and the “vosotros” form.

To learn more about the present tense of the ER and the IR verbs click here.

To review the meanings of some common regular verbs click here.

Quizlet with common AR, ER and IR verbs

Multiple choice with the verbs you have to know

Rags to riches with conjugation

Battleship with conjugation