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Español 1
El 13 de octubre de 2014
Entrada: Verbos de dibujos (Entrance: Verbs from drawings)
Write the date and title, and log the entry in your table of contents.
Write the Spanish vocabulary word/phrase represented by each picture.
If it is a phrase, circle the first word (the verb).
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Los infinitivos (Infinitives)
Verbs
•Verbs are words that are used to name actions.
•Verbs have different forms depending on who is doing the action
(subject) or when the action is occurring (tense).
I walk, she walks, we walked, etc.
Infinitives
•The most basic form of a verb is called the infinitive.
•In English, an infinitive begins with TO.
to talk, to run, to write
•In Spanish, an infinitive ends with –AR, –ER, or –ER.
hablar, correr, escribir
Los infinitivos (Infinitives)
Infinitives
•Using the verbs that you wrote for each picture in the Entrada,
make a chart showing examples of the 3 types of infinitives (-ar, -er,
and –ir). Then use your vocabulary notes to add more infinitives to
your chart.
AR
ER
IR
Los sujetos (Subjects)
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The subject of a sentence tells who or what is doing the action.
People’s names are often used as the subject:
Gregory listens to music.
Ana sings and dances.
You also use subject pronouns to tell who is doing an action.
Subject pronouns replace people’s names.
The English subject pronouns are:
Singular
Plural
1st person
I
2nd person
you
we
you
(you all, y’all, you guys)
3rd person
he, she, it
they
Los subjetos (Subjects)
Subjects
• The Spanish subject pronouns are:
1st person
Singular
Plural
yo
nosotros, nosotras
tú
(familiar)
vosotros, vosotras
(familiar, used in Spain &
in literature)
usted / Ud.
(formal)
ustedes / Uds.
(used everywhere)
él, ella
ellos, ellas
2nd person
3rd person
Los subjetos (Subjects)
Different forms of “you”
•Use tú with family, friends, people your age or younger, and
anyone you call by his/her first name.
•Use usted with adults you address with a title, such as señor,
señora, profesor(a), etc. Usted is usually written as Ud.
•In Spain, use vosotros(as) when speaking to two or more people
who you call tú individually: tú + tú = vosotros(as). Use ustedes
when talking to two or more people you call usted individually.
•Everywhere else, use ustedes when speaking to two of more
people, regardless of age. Ustedes is usually written as Uds.
Los subjetos (Subjects)
Groups
•If a group is made up of males only or of both males and females
together, use the masculine forms (nosotros, vosotros, ellos).
•If a group is all females, use the feminine forms (nosotras,
vosotras, ellas).
•You can combine a subject pronoun and a name to form a
subject:
• Alejandro y yo = nosotros
• Carlos y ella = ellos
• Pepe y tú = ustedes
• Lola y ella = ellas