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WorksheetsSpanish 11: Regular and Irregular Imperfect
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 31mins
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We use the imperfect tense to refer to... (tick 3 boxes)
How things normally are
What was going on when something else happened
What is going to happen
Background description / setting the scene
What used to happen / how things used to be
To form the imperfect tense, we remove the - AR/-ER/-IR ending from the infinitive verb and add the following endings:
-AR = -aba, -abas, -aba, -ábamos, -abais, -aban
-ER/-IR = - ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -íais, -ían,
-AR = -é, -aste, -ó, -amos, -asteis, -aron
-ER/-IR = -í, -iste, -ió, -imos, -isteis, -ieron
-AR = -o, -as, -a, -amos, -áis, -an
-ER/-IR = -o, -es, -e, -emos, -éis, -en
Good news! In the imperfect tense there are only ______ irregular verbs.
2
3
4
5
The irregular verbs in the imperfect tense are:
VER (to see), SER (to be), IR (to go)
SER (to be), IR (to go), TENER (to have)
IR (to go), SER (to be), ESTAR (to be)
Which tense would you need to translate this sentence to Spanish?
"We always go to Greece with my cousins."
Present tense
Preterite tense
Imperfect tense
Which tense would you need to translate this sentence to Spanish?
"Last year I went to Spain."
Present tense
Preterite tense
Imperfect tense
Which tense would you need to translate this sentence to Spanish?
"We used to go to Portugal every summer."
Present tense
Preterite tense
Imperfect tense
Which tense would you need to translate this sentence to Spanish?
"The beach was really clean."
Present tense
Preterite tense
Imperfect tense
Which tense would you need to translate this sentence to Spanish?
"Last summer we stayed in a five star hotel."
Present tense
Preterite tense
Imperfect tense
Ellos / ver
veías
veíamos
veía
veían
Mi familia y yo / ir al parque
iba
íbamos
iban
ibas
La clase / ser interesante
eran
eras
éramos
era
recibir (Ud.)
recibíamos
recibía
recibías
recibían
Mis alumnos del año pasado ___________ todos los días. (estudiar)
estudiaba
estudiaban
estudiábamos
estudiabas
Tú _______ mucho cuando tenías 5 años. (bailar)
bailabas
bailaba
bailábamos
bailaban
