SP 106 – Mr. Ocaña                                                              Nombre:

PRESENT TENSE (textbook p. G38-39 y G42)

 

Step 1: Endings.

Infintives in Spanish end in –AR, -ER, or –IR. To tell who performs the action, you must conjugate the infinitive. This means that you drop the infinitive ending (AR, ER, IR), and you replace it with the ending corresponding to the subject. The following chart shows you the endings:

 

 

-AR

-ER

-IR

Yo

-o

-o

-o

Tú

-as

-es

-es

El, ella, usted

-a

-e

-e

Nosotros

-amos

-emos

-imos

Vosotros

-áis

-éis

-ís

Ellos, ellas, ustedes

-an

-en

h

 

à Practice:

1. Complete de chart below: Conjugate de following verbs in all the subjects forms:

 

                        CANTAR                     NADAR                       COMER

Yo                    ___________              ___________              ___________

Tú                    ___________              ___________              ___________

El                     ___________              ___________              ___________

Nosotros           ___________              ___________              ___________

Vosotros           ___________              ___________              ___________

Ellos                 ___________              ___________              ___________

 

 

                        CORRER                     ESCRIBIR                   VIVIR

Yo                    ___________              ___________              ___________

Tú                    ___________              ___________              ___________

El                     ___________              ___________              ___________

Nosotros           ___________              ___________              ___________

Vosotros           ___________              ___________              ___________

Ellos                 ___________              ___________              ___________

 

 

2. Write an original sentence with the following information:

MODELO: Yo/ cantar/ ópera à Yo canto ópera

 

a. Nosotros/visitar/Chapultepec à

b. Ellas/vivir/en Estados Unidos à

c. Tú/escribir/una carta à

d. El/leer/libros à

e. Yo/comer/pizza y tacos/los viernes à

f. Ella/estudiar/ciencias à

g. Vosotros/vivir/en Greenwich à

 

 

3. Translate to Spanish:

  1. I dance =
  2. You (pl.) sing =
  3. They (masc.) buy =
  4. They (fem.) walk =
  5. You (sing.) study =
  6. She practices football =
  7. He writes =
  8. I eat pizza =

 

à Homework: Textbook p. G43, act. C, ch.