This type of repetition helps students learn this irregular verb so it becomes second nature.Īgain, (if you read Part 1 of this series), you’ll notice that we’re not focusing on using all forms of the verb conjugations. Jen, what did you bring to the picnic? The next person repeats that list and adds another item. What did you bring to the picnic? Paco brought apples, Laura brought hamburgers, and I brought sandwiches. It’s perfect for reviewing the irregular verb “traer”. Perhaps you played this classic picnic activity in the car when you were little. Here are a few examples from my Spanish Preterite Imperfect Unit. The idea is that you want them to hear it being used correctly many times. The trick is to create a set dialogue so that students are guaranteed to use it correctly. Introduce an irregular verb and create a small activity to use it in context. Teach irregular verbs in context with lots of repetition.
Native speakers don’t do this and conjugating verbs doesn’t create fluent speakers, it creates speakers who conjugate verbs in their heads when they’re trying to communicate. I previously mentioned that when learning irregular verb forms you need to practice, practice, practice.Īnd by practice, practice, practice, I don’t mean conjugate verbs over and over.
IRREGULAR PAST TENSE VERBS TEACH HOW TO
This third part of the series talks about how to teach irregular verbs. In the first 2 parts of this series, we discussed how native speakers learn differently than language students and how to break down tricky verb tenses into manageable chunks by teaching only specific verb forms at a time.
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