Below are some links that you can use to practice topics from Sections 1 & 2 of the Revision plan.
Present tense verbs including Regular and Stem Changing Verbs
The Present Continuous (Gerund)
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16 Abr
Demonstrative Adjectives
Below are a few links to help you understand and practice the Demonstrative adjectives (this/these, that/those, that/those over there)
A review of the demonstratives
Bk Nelson – Los Demonstrativos
Review the rules then practice by clicking on the blue ‘Quiz’ button
13 Mar
3 Curso – Preterite v Imperfect
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.
6 Feb
1 Curso – Ser v Estar
In class we learned that Ser and Estar both mean ‘To Be’ but we use them for different things.
Remember the phrase ‘For how you feel and Where you are always use the verb Estar’.
That means we can use Ser for almost everything else; origin, nationality, character, professions, physical descriptions (including colours) and saying what things are or who they belong to.
Use the links below to read more about the differences and make sure to do the practice quizzes in the column on the left:
Here is another good explanation of the differences between Ser and Estar. When you’re finished reading click the green ‘QUIZ’ button to test yourself. Click here.
5 Feb
The Present Perfect
This is another Spanish past tense that basically it’s the equivalent of the tense ‘I have done something’ in English and is made up of two verbs as in English, those being the verb to have and then the ‘past participle of another verb i.e. to eat = eaten, to dance = danced, to speak = spoken.
In Spanish though we use the verb Haber + past participle and so it works like this. NOTE that we do not use Tener in Spanish for this tense:
Haber = to have (done something)
he hablado (from hablar)
has
ha + Past Participle comido (from comer)
hemos
habéis vivido (from vivir)
han
As you can see to form the past participle you simply remove the -AR from the verb and add -ado, or removed -ER/-IR and add -ido.
There are also a number of irregulars you need to be aware of:
abrir (to open) – abierto (open)
cubrir (to cover) – cubierto (covered)
decir (to say) – dicho (said)
escribir (to write) – escrito (written)
freír (to fry) – frito (fried)
hacer (to do) – hecho (done)
morir (to die) – muerto (dead)
poner (to put) – puesto (put)
resolver (to resolve) – resuelto (resolved)
romper (to break) – roto (broken)
ver (to see) – visto (seen)
volver (to return) – vuelto (returned)
Below are a series of links which summarise the tense well and allow you to practice with it:
Spanishdict.com gives a decent summary here but it doesn’t specifically mention the irregulars
There is a good summary from studyspanish.com here of the past participles.
9 Ene
2 Curso – El Cuerpo Humano
Para practicar con el vocabulario del Cuerpo Humano click aqui:
Y hay más vocabulario aquí – StudySpanish.com
