Spanish Teaching Resources. My Holiday/ Vacation & Preterite -ar Verbs.

This presentation presents expressions using the preterite of -ar verbs to describe holidays and then elicits the fomration of the first and third person singular and the first person plural.

Expressions:
Me alojé en un hotel.
Visité un castillo.
Compré unas gafas de sol.
Nadé en el mar.
Lo pasé fenomenal.

The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English and to drill.

Slide 7 elicits:

Look at the infinitive and the preterite. What do we remove from and add to the infinitive to form the preterite?
Comprar - compré
Remove the ar and add é.

Slide 8 elicits:

Now look at the following forms of the preterite. What do we remove from and add to the infinitive to form the preterite?
Visitar - visitamos = we visited
Visitar - visitaste = you (singular informal) visited.
Remove the ar and add amos/aste.

The next section of slides have verdad o mentira questions. Then there is a "¿Qué es?" slides. This can also be used for a Beat the Teacher game, which the students love!
The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If it’s the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins!