lunes, 05 de enero de 2015
LOS ANIMALES
Good
Recognise present tense AR verbs
Great
Be able to form present tense AR verbs
Even better
Be able to read a longer text containing present tense
AR verbs
Activity
Expectations
All
• Watch the video and
make a note of the
animals that you see
On the worksheet, match up the
animals and then number them in the
order that you spot them on the video.
Extension
• Note down what the
animals are doing
On the worksheet, match up as many of
the actions as you can.
• Click here to watch the
video
Check your answers:
Verbo
Animal
Have you noticed anything10 about
these
Un búho
15
Un elefante
verbs? Look at the ending…
2
Un flamenco
12, 14
Un mono
6
Un ratón
That’s right. They all end in
–AR.
There are 3
8
Un oso
1
Un perezoso
types of verb in Spanish: AR,
ER
and IR. The
5
Un pez
4
Un rinoceronte
most common are AR verbs:
13
Un hipopótamo
13
Un zorro
-ar verbs: 85%
10
Una girafa
5
Una cebra
-er verbs: 7%
9
Una chinchilla
3
Una foca
-ir verbs: 8%
7
Una rana
1. Agarrar – to grab
2. Bailar – to dance
3. Bostezar – to yawn
4. Buscar – to look for
5. Cantar – to sing
6. Gritar – to shout
7. Guiñar – to wink
8. Levantarse – to get up
9. Masticar – to chew
10. Mirar – to look
11. Nadar – to swim
12. Sacar la lengua – to stick your tongue out
13. Saltar – to jump
14. Soltar una risita – to chuckle
15. Tirar – to pull
14
Una araña
What is an AR verb?
• An –AR verb is a ‘doing word’ that
ends in –AR.
• Eg: hablar
mirar
escuchar
to speak
to look
to listen
In order to say who is doing the
action you need to change the
ending. Look at the examples on
the right:
La jirafa mira
The giraffe looks
El perezoso agarra
el árbol
The sloth grasps
the tree
El cebra baila
The zebra dances
How do you form AR verbs?
Step 1: Find the infinitive
E.g. bailar – to dance
Step 2: Take off the AR ending. You are left with the stem
X
Bailar
Step 3: Choose the correct subject for your verb
Yo (I)
Tú (you singular familiar)
Él/ella/Usted (he/she/you singular polite)
Nosotros/as (We)
Vosotros/as (You plural familiar)
Ellos/ellas/Ustedes (They m/f/You plural
polite)
Step five: Add the new ending to the stem
yo
Tú
Él/ella/usted
Nosotros/as
Vosotros /as
Ellos/ellas
bail o
bail as
bail a
bail amos
bail áis
bail an
Using the vocabulary and verb lists from the video clip
activity, make some sentences:
The owls look
The elephants pull
Los búhos
miran
Los elefantes
tiran
The fish dances
The hippo yawns
El pez baila
El hipopótamo
bosteza
What have you learnt today?
Good
Great
Even
Better
Hola, me llamo Tito. Make a list of all the ar verbs you can find in the text.
Tengo dos amigos y
hablamos mucho,
¿hablas con tus
amigos? Mi amigo el
elefante mira la
Translate the verbs into English.
tele los lunes pero
yo escucho música.
Los sábados
bailamos en la
discoteca. Mi amigo
el mono nada en el
Translate the whole text into English.
río.
PLENARY
Good
Great
Even better
Name 5 animals
Name 5 animals and 5 AR verbs
Make 5 sentences using an animal and an
AR verb
¿Lo sabías?
Animals speak
Spanish too!
Which animals
make these
sounds?
Guau, guau
Mu
Miau
Cuac cuac