Il Presente: i verbi ARE

What are all of these words that end in ARE?

• objects
• actions/verbs
• people
• nonsense

What do we do to the ending of these ARE words?

• Take off the ARE and add random endings
• Take off the ARE and add endings that follow a pattern
• Leave the ARE and add endings that follow a pattern
• Leave the ARE and just add the person

What determines the ending that you put on each ARE word?

• The person (io, tu, lui/lei/Lei, noi, voi, loro)
• The action being done

Once we take off the ARE, what ending do we add for IO?

• a
• e
• i
• o

Once we take off the ARE, what ending do we add for TU?

• a
• e
• i
• o

Once we take off the ARE, what ending do we add for Lui/Lei/lei?

• a
• e
• i
• o

Once we take off the ARE, what ending do we add for NOI?

• iamo
• ate
• ano
• ono

Once we take off the ARE, what ending do we add for VOI?

• iamo
• ate
• ano
• ono

Once we take off the ARE, what ending do we add for LORO?

• iamo
• ate
• ano
• ono

Pratica: I eat

• io mangio
• tu mangi
• io mangiaro
• tu mangiari