Activity: discovering the conjugation of Spanish verbs
Imagine that you are a student when you are perfoming the activity.
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1. Use a simple model sentence and with the help of an online-translator or an online-dictionary find out the meaning of this phrase as well as the personal pronouns in the L2.
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For instance: 'he is hungry' in Spanish is: 'él tiene hambre'.
The personal pronoun 'he' is 'él' in Spanish, 'you' is 'tú' etc.
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2. Use the same sentence with all its pronouns, replacing the verb with *. Investigate the different verbs that appear in the given context and systematize the paradigm of one verb.
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For this purpose go to Google Advanced Search and put your phrase in the box 'with the exact phrase'. Just like 'yo * hambre', 'tú * hambre' etc.:
You have to find out the conjugation of the verb.
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3. After the research, that might give a complete paradigm or only part of it, check your findings with a verb conjugator. To be able to do this, you have to find out the INFINITIVE of the verb; the online dictionary will help you.
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If you do this activity in Spanish, it is important to remind your students that in Spanish you do not usually use the personal pronoun before the verb.
As a teacher you have to find a simple sentence that gives good results. It is adviseable to provide your students with the personal pronouns. Try the activity yourself before you give it to your students.
The most important part of the activity is to pool the students' results together and to discuss the results. The activity is designed to raise students' awareness of conjunctions and is not meant to practise verb form.
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