Ch. 5 Study Guide Spanish 2 Use your interactive notebook, worksheets/packets, and/or your online textbook as you study. Vocabulario Be sure to review all vocabulary on both vocabulary pages. Take advantage of the quizlet.com flashcards (as hopefully you’ve already been doing)! Gramática Preterite and imperfect: Other uses In addition to the uses we’ve already seen for the imperfect tense… (from ch. 4 study guide): 1) talk about actions that happened repeatedly in the past 2) describe people, places, and situations in the past 3) talk about a past action or situation when no beginning or end is specified 4) describe the situation or background information when something else happened (the preterite) or interrupted an ongoing action… We also use the imperfect to: 1) to tell what day or time of day it was 2) tell what the weather was like 3) describe the physical, mental, and emotional states of a person or thing. We use the preterite to: 1) describe when something happened 2) talk about actions completed in the past 3) talk about an event The following verbs we discussed as verbs used to describe states of being: estar (triste, contento, cansado), parecer (cansado, mal), sentirse (bien, enfermo), tener (calor, frío, hambre, sed, sueño). Practice writing out sentence that contain both the imperfect and preterite. __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ The preterite of the verbs oír, leer, creer, and destruir Remember the spelling changes necessary for the verbs ​
oír​
, ​
creer​
, and ​
destruir​
in the preterite form. Write out the changes needed below, using complete sentences: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Be prepared to answer questions (in complete sentences in Spanish) about an article describing a natural disaster. See page 256­257 in the text to act as a refresher (we saw this in class). Irregular preterites: venir, poner, decir, and traer Conjugate each of the verbs below in the preterite tense (venir) (poner) (decir) (traer) Imperfect progressive and preterite To describe something that was taking place over a period of time in the past, use the imperfect progressive, which uses the imperfect tense of ​
estar​
and the present participle. To form the present participle (the second part of the verb phrase), use the endings ​
­ando, ­iendo,​
and sometimes ​
­yendo​
. There are stem­changes as well (​
decir ­ diciendo, pedir ­ pidiendo, repetir ­ repitiendo, seguir ­ siguiendo, servir ­ sirviendo, vestir ­ vistiendo, dormir ­ durmiendo, creer ­ creyendo, leer ­ leyendo, traer ­ trayendo​
). Practice writing out sentence that contain the imperfect progressive and preterite (ejemplo: ​
Estaba esquiando cuando me caí y me torcí la rodilla​
). __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________