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Question

okay i have to do this HUGE project and our teacher honestly never teaches us im not just saying this im an A&B student i pay attention but she never says anything for us to pay attention to so please don't think im doing this just to take the easy way out of a project but


i have to explain the contrast between the 2 verb structures and how they are diff. from english.... and
i have to plan an activity in which i can engage the students in the class



i have everything else to do with the project i just don't know those 2 things


thanks in advance to anyone who answers

i have no clue it just says to verb structures

sorry i didn't think about adding my grade and stuff
im in grade 10 and spanish 2

Answer 1

take the verb comer (eat) in simple present affirmative and in simple past with every single personal pronoun.
present:
Yo como todos los días/ I eat everyday
Tu comes todos los días(singular) Ustedes comen todos los días (plural)/ You eat everyday
El come todos los días/ He eats everyday
Ella come todos los días/ She eats everyday
Eso (animal) come todos los días/ It eats everyday
Nosotros comemos todos los días/ We eat everyday
Ellos comen todos los días/ They eat everyday
You can say that in English you have two forms for the verbs in present simple (1st and 2nd person differs from the 3rd person) whereas in Spanish, there´s a form for every single personal pronoun, which makes Spanish to be a Pro-drop language, that means that you can say a sentence without making any reference to the subject because it is already unterstood, by the verb.

In the case of the past simple, it is just the same. In English you have only one form for each verb in past tense, but in Spanish you need a diferent form for every personal pronoun. For example:
Yo comí ayer/ I ate yesterday
Tu comiste ayer (singular) Ustedes comieron ayer/ You ate yesterday
El comió ayer/ He ate yesterday
Ella comió ayer/ She ate yesterday
Eso (animal) comió ayer/ It ate yesterday
Nosotros comimos ayer/ We ate yesterday
Ellos comieron ayer/ They ate yesterday

In Spanish the verb form remains the same only for the 3rd person singular (el, ella and eso)

The activity for the class could be to rearrange a song in Spanish (I suggest you Shakira, Belinda, RBD). Divide the class into two groups.You have to get the lyrics twice, and cut the sentences. Then give the groups the pieces of paper and play the song (3 times only). Give a prize to the group that finishes first. Good luck!!!

Answer 2

You don't mention what grade you're in or what level of Spanish you're taking, which makes it hard to give advice.

Not sure what you mean by "the two verb structures" and how they're different from English. Do you mean present tense & one of the other tenses?

For a student activity... you could do something with vocabulary. Maybe a set of Spanish words that are very much like English ones, and another set that look like English words but mean something very different. Put both sets on index cards & mix them up; let everyone try to sort out which are which.

Answer 3

question Structure:

Interrogative
English: Do you know my teacher?

Spanish: ¿Tu Conoces a mi profesor?

Difference: In Spanish there is no auxiliar verb for a question such as "do" or "does". For you to make the question you just need to make a sentence and put the interrogation sign, Because without the interrogation the "¿tu conoces a mi profesor?" sentence would be an affirmattive sentece

Future Tense
English: I will do it

Spanish: Yo Lo Hare

For you to make a sentece in the future time, you in english need the auxiliar verb "will" but in spanish you dont use that, you need to make the conjugation of the verb "hacer" in this case because "yo" is the first person in singular, you make the conjugation of the verb "Hacer" for the first person in singular in the future time, it is "hare"


The activity, I dont know, sorry

Answer 4

You need to be more specific. The two verb structures? Are you speaking of Past and Present or future?

Answer 5

Ola. HaHa

Answer 6

I speak spanish and that's hard even for me.....sorry....