26 Mar
Click here to practice with the vocabulary of animals. Some of them you’ll already have seen in class but there are also some new words here. You can use the ‘STUDY’ section to relearn the words and the ‘PLAY GAMES’ section to practice with the words.
Click here to start – Los Animales
You can practice with Tener by clicking here.
20 Mar
In Spanish we’ve seen how there are to ways to say ‘to be’ – Ser and Estar.
In the same way there are two ways to say ‘to know’ – Conocer and Saber, as we saw in class though both mean ‘to know’ in different ways.
We use Saber to talk about how we ‘know’ knowledge or skills for example to know how to swim (Saber nadar) or to know how to speak Spanish (Saber hablar el español). You could also know facts, for example (Saber la historia de Irlanda).
Conocer is used to talk about how we know someone, as in to know Mark (Conocer a Mark). Yet it is also used to talk about how you know a country, city or town (conocer Irlanda, conocer Dublín, conocer Stillorgan) ….. BUT BE CAREFUL…. it does not mean that you know about the history of the town or facts about the town but more about where things are in the town and what you can do to spend time there. Click on the link below for a review of Saber v Conocer.
SpanishDict.com Conocer v Saber
YOU CAN ALSO PRACTICE HERE. IT MIGHT BE A BIT MORE DIFFICULT BUT HAVE A GO.
18 Mar
The Past Tense in Spanish can be challenging so it’s important to break it up into manageable pieces and study it and practice it well and often. We’ll start with the Regular Verbs.
Below you will find a few exercises to help you revise the Regular verbs in the Pretérito Indefinido (the past tense).
Another very good review. Press the quiz button at the bottom to practice.
Here is a multiple choice exercise.
And here is some IMPORTANT vocabulary. These words are ‘trigger‘ words for the Preterite Tense. That means that whenever we see them or use them we know we also need to use the Preterite.
12 Mar
We’ve seen how that Spanish unlike English uses two past tense. The Indefinido for single events in the past that have been considered completed at a specific time, whereas the Imperfecto is used to describe events in the past in a ‘continuous‘ sense, that is to speak of things that were ‘happening‘ or that we ‘used to’ do.
Think of our Timeline here with the Indefinido representing the X’s, the single events, that occurred on the timeline and the Imperfect as being the continuous line that runs the length of the timeline, with no specific time being referred to.
Click the following links (in order) to review the uses of each and then practice them:
Overview from spanishdict.com with associated practice quizzes.
7 Mar
The past tense in Spanish is little more difficult than in English. Were we use one past tense Spanish uses two, we’ve already seen one in the Preterite (for a quick review click here). Now we’re going to look at the Imperfect which is used to talk about things you ‘used to do’ (I used to live in Cork, we used to have a dog) or to describe things in the past (the sun was shining, the birds were singing).
We’ll come back to the differences between the two past tenses in more detail but for now lets concentrate on how you form the imperfect. Click on the links below for a review of the imperfect and some practice exercises.
Review of the Imperfect with a practice quiz at the top.
Another review with another quiz.
Flashcards with verb endings for -AR and -ER/-IR verbs plus the irregulars
hastalabandera 