Essential Question - Pregunta Esencial
How learning about different national parks, camping activities and natural environment will help me learn about other countries?
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Lesson Objectives - Objetivos de la lección
I can read and understand information about:
camping activities
features of the natural environment
I can identify cause and effect relationships to help me understand what I am reading.
I can write the preterite form of an irregular verb.
Preterito & Imperfecto.pptxLos caminos incas.pdfVideo: Parques de aventura en las montañas de Puerto Rico
Preterite and Imperfect tenses are both related to the past, but they function differently. The preterite tells you precisely when something happened in the past, while the imperfect tells you in general terms when an action took place with no definite ending.
Imperfecto explains what was happening, with no indication of when or even if it ended.
Estaba en España. I was to Spain.Visitaba los museos. I was visiting museums.
Estaba en España. I was to Spain.Visitaba los museos. I was visiting museums.
Pretérito announces what happened, actions that were completed.
Fui a España el año pasado. I went to Spain last year.
Visité Barcelona el sábado. I visited Barcelona on Saturday.
KEYWORDS WITH THE PRETERITE
The following keywords tend to work well in sentences with the Preterite:
ayer = yesterday
anteayer = the day before yesterday
el otro día = the other day
la semana pasada = last week
el mes pasado = last month
el año pasado = last year
hace X días = X days ago
hace X semanas = X weeks ago
hace X meses = X months ago
hace X años = X years ago
hace mucho tiempo = a long time ago
Historia en el imperfecto
Cuando tenía dieciocho años, quería ser arquitecto. Me gustaba mucho la obra de Antoni Gaudí y esperaba comprender su genialidad.
(When I was eighteen, I wanted to be an architect. I really liked Antoni Gaudí’s work and I hoped to understand his genius.)
Historia en el pretérito
Decidí estudiar en España e hice los formularios de inscripción, pero las universidades no me admitieron. Conocí a un arquitecto y comencé a estudiar con él.
(I decided to study in Spain and filled out the application forms, but the universities did not admit me. I met an architect and started studying with him.)
Historia con tiempos mixtos
Cuando tenía dieciocho años, decidí que quería ser arquitecto. Me gustaba mucho el trabajo de Antoni Gaudí y me di cuenta de que debía estudiar en España. Pero conocí a un arquitecto y al final estudié con él durante 3 años.
(When I was eighteen, I decided that I wanted to be an architect. I really liked Antoni Gaudí’s work and realized I should study in Spain. But I met an architect and ended up studying with him for 3 years instead.)
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