AR CONJUGATION LESSON 2021

AR CONJUGATION LESSON 2021

Objective: Students will be able to use the proper forms of -ar verbs to describe what activities people are doing in the present

VERBS

A verb shows action! It tells what someone or something is doing or being.

Verbs are words that express…

Multiple Choice

Verbs are words that express…

• Actions

• The present

• The future

• Whats happening

Example

Ex: to sing, to dance, to play, etc.

Open Ended

Warm-up: Name as many -AR verbs as you remember in Spanish.

AR VERBS

Many infinitives in Spanish end in -ar. 

Hablar = to talk

caminar = to walk

comprar = to buy

How do you form the present tense of these verbs to talk about activities you are doing in the present?

Multiple Choice

We're talking about verbs in Spanish that end with the letters

• AR

• ER

• IR

To form the present tense of a regular verb that ends in -ar,

drop the -ar 

Look at subject

add the appropriate ending.

INFINITIVES

• These basic forms that end in –AR, -ER, -IR are called INFINITIVES!

• What does an infinitive do?

• It tells what the action is but not who performed the action.

  
  

  
  

Multiple Choice

What is an infinitive?

• -the basic form of the verb. In English, it's usually preceded by the word to

• a verb in the present tense

• a conjugate verb

• a verb in the past tense

Subject Pronouns (Singular/One person)

I = Yo 

You (familiar) = Tú

You (formal) = Usted (Ud.)

She = Ella

He = Él

Subject Pronouns (Plural/More Than 1 person)

We (male/mixed) (someone and I) - Nosotros

We (female) (someone and I) - Nosotras

Y'all - Ustedes (Uds.)

They (male/mixed) - Ellos

They (female) - Ellas

Multiple Choice

What does a subject pronoun tell you?

• Where the action happened

• Why the action happened

• Who does the action

• What the action is

Open Ended

WHAT IS THE FIRST STEP OF CONJUGATION ??

AR ENDINGS

• Here are the verb endings for AR verbs.

  Look them over for a minute! These should be very familiar to you, but if not... you need to memorize them ASAP!

Multiple Choice

When do we conjugate

• ANY time we tell who does the action, either by using a subject pronoun, a noun or a name(s).

• Only when it has a person's name, or people's names.

• You can just pick and choose, depending on if you want to conjugate or not.

• Only when it says "yo, tú, él, ella, etc."

Multiple Choice

Which one of these says "I rest?"

• Yo descanso

• Yo descansa

• Yo descansamos

• Yo descansas

Multiple Choice

Which one of these says "the students study?"

• Los estudiantes estudian

• Los estudiantes estudiar

• Los estudiantes estudios

Multiple Choice

Conjugate the verb "escuchar" for the Uds. form

• escuchan

• escucha

• escuchamos

• eschucho

Multiple Select

Who can use this conjugation? (check all that can) MARISSA

• YO

• ELLA

• USTED

Poll

How do you feel about the AR CONJUGATION now?

• Give me a quiz now, and I'll ace it!

• I just need some more practice and I'll be set

• completely lost

iGRACIAS! EL FIN