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Spanish · Grade 4

Narrate with Reviewed Time Expressions

Learners start telling what happened. They build the preterite of regular verbs (with the accents that separate hablo from habló and the spelling changes in busqué and leyó), use the key irregular forms fui, hice, tuve, estuve and vi, and anchor events with time expressions (ayer, la semana pasada, hace dos años, al día siguiente). The course ends with a trip to Cusco and Machu Picchu told in the past, and learners narrate an experience of their own.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 110 minutes
  • Past narration check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, choose a reply, highlight a text, type a number and put in order
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What learners will discover

  • Form the preterite of regular -ar, -er and -ir verbs, with written accents (hablé, habló) and spelling changes (busqué, llegué, empecé, leyó).
  • Use the common irregular preterites ir/ser (fui, fue), hacer (hice, hizo), tener (tuve), estar (estuve) and ver (vi, vio).
  • Place events in the past with time expressions (ayer, anoche, el año pasado, hace + time, al día siguiente) and choose between the preterite and the present perfect appropriately.
  • Understand and write a connected past narrative of a trip or experience using sequence words.

Lessons

  1. Regular preterite: hablé, comí, viví 6 steps4 practiceabout 27 min
  2. Irregulars: fui, hice, tuve, estuve, vi 6 steps4 practiceabout 27 min
  3. When did it happen? 6 steps4 practiceabout 26 min
  4. Tell the story of a trip 6 steps4 practiceabout 30 min
  5. Past narration check 9 questions at the end

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