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Conjugation and tenses. Juan Arévalo. Conjugation. How many mistakes are there in this conversation ? ‘Hi Paul.’ ‘Hi Lucy. How are you ?’ ‘ I’m fine. How am you ?’ ‘ I’m great . What is we doing today ?’ ‘ Let’s go to John’s house .’ ‘John? Who are John?’
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Conjugation and tenses Juan Arévalo
Conjugation Howmanymistakes are there in thisconversation? • ‘Hi Paul.’ • ‘Hi Lucy. How are you?’ • ‘I’m fine. How am you?’ • ‘I’mgreat. Whatiswedoingtoday?’ • ‘Let’sgo to John’shouse.’ • ‘John? Who are John?’ • ‘John ismyfriend. He live near my house and he going to my school. He are being my best friend. He play football and like tennis too.’
Conjugation • When we speak English, we change verbs all the time: • e.g. I listen, you listen, they listened • This changing of verbs is called conjugation • Conjugation is changing the spelling/form of the verb depending on the person and the tense.
Conjugation • We need to conjugate verbs in French too. • Luckily there is a step-by-step process for this. • Verbs in Spanish come in threegroups: -er, -ir and –re. • Todaywewillfocuson-erverbs • Why do wecallthemarverbs? étudier écouter parler bavarder réviser aimer
Conjugation: anexample • Let’s use parler as anexample
Conjugation: puttingsomething back on • For –erverbswe use thefollowingendings: