Summer Assessments – Beginning 23rd May 2011

The summer assessments will cover the following topics:

Travel and transport
Holiday activities
Countries
Places (in town / compass points)
You will also need to revise the past and future tense. 

Use the following links to help you revise:

www.linguascope.com – beginner – el tiempo, los paises, el transporte, en la ciudad

www.languagesonline.org.uk – spanish – caminos 2 – unidad 1, unidad 8

www.espanol-extra.co.uk – core – weather, countries, holidays, language and grammar (the preterite)

www.vocabexpress.com – mis vacaciones (all the topics in that folder)

Below is your speaking and writing assessment to prepare for after half-term:

Deberes para el 1 de noviembre

Learn the following verbs and pronouns off by heart and write a short text saying which sports you play (30-40 words):

El Preterito – (past simple tense)

The past tense can be quite complicated in Spanish.  The preterite is the simple past tense and is used to talk about things we did in the past.  The endings of the verbs change differently to how they do in the present tense.  Look at the table below to find the endings for regular verbs in the preterite.

Unfortunately, not all verbs are regular in Spanish, below are 4 irregular verbs that are used often.  You have to learn these off by heart as there is no pattern.

Soler – to tend to

You can use the verb ‘soler’ instead of saying ‘normalmente’ or ‘generalmente’ – it means that you tend to do something, but remember to include another verb in the infinitive to make a full sentence.