Preterite & Travel Vocab

Preterite & Travel Vocab

Ms. Waud, Holley CSD Demo Mini-Lesson

​We use the preterite tense to talk about a completed action or event in the past.

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ex. verbs ending in -ed (walked, talked, shopped)

time stamps (yesterday, last Monday, at 6:00 this morning)​

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​When do we use it?

What does it look like?

​Preterite Tense

​-ar -er/ir *ir

hablé comí fui

hablaste comiste fuiste

habló comió fue

hablamos comimos fuimos

hablastéis comistéis fuisteis

hablaron comieron fueron

​There are some irregular verbs in the preterite tense. Here is how we would work with them!

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¡Práctica! Conjugate: "We talked"

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Conjugate: "I arrived"

this is a "-car/-gar/-zar" verb!

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Conjugate: "She had"

this is irregular!

​We can pretend that we are telling a friend about a trip we went on (hint: we are back from vacation, so we would use what tense?

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Translate: I arrived at the airport last Monday.

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Translate: My dad looked for his passport at security.

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Translate: We talked to the passengers on the airplane.

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Translate: My brother wanted the seat near the window.

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Translate: They walked the luggage by the pilot.