Junior Cert Spanish Present

Junior Cert Spanish Present Tense is for you to become an expert in regular verbs and the everyday uses of this tense.

Junior Cert Spanish Present

This is one of the “core” tenses for Junior Cert. students and is needed for all aspects of the exam from Listening to Writing.

There is actually a lot to consider with the Present Tense in terms of spelling changes etc. but we will take it step-by-step.

You can see three examples in the blue box below of what these verbs express in English.

Profesor Dave.

I STUDY EVERY DAY

She EATS TOAST WE LIVE IN WICKLOW

Becoming the Expert

The 3 fundamental things you will get here are..

Regular Verb Endings

Handy Time Expressions

Take Away Notes

Part 1 - 4 Step Process

The very first thing to learn is the 4-step process of working with Spanish verbs.

It doesn’t matter if we are talking about the past, present or future as it is like a “checklist” so you always complete the full process. It’s as easy as 1-2-3-4!

Junior Cert Spanish Present

Teach Yourself

Watch this 1-minute video of the 4-step process of conjugating verbs in Spanish.

You will learn everything you need to know at this point.

Play Video about Leaving Cert Spanish Present My Teacher Dave infographic slide presenting the 3 steps to conjugating verbs in Spanish

Part 2 - Who Are They?!

The next quick thing we need to do is identify who we are talking about with these Spanish and English pronouns.

TIP = When you’re finished and have the right answers, pop the information down in your “libreta“.

Part 3 - Basic Spanish Verbs

OK, you’re ready to start working with Spanish Present Tense verbs!

It’s probably been a while since you’ve worked with Spanish verbs, so let’s go back to basics.

Read the instructions below for the activity…

Junior Cert Spanish Present

How to Do this Activity

1) In the activity, you get:

– a chart with the 3 categories of Spanish verbs

– 6 verbs that belong to one of the 3 categories

2) You have to move the verb to the correct category

Part 4 - What I Like to Eat

In this section, you are going to put everything you’ve done into practice.

The topic is FOOD and you are going to tell us about what you normally eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

You will also tell use about some of the nice things you eat when you are in Spain!

Let’s start with a super-basic vocab. matching activity – DRAG THE WORDS to the correct image.

Junior Cert Spanish Present

How to Do this Activity

1) Do sentences 2, 5 & 9 ONLY first.

2) CHECK your answers and record your score.

3) Watch the mini-video here.

4) Take notes of all the different endings.

5) Do all the sentences 1-10.

Play Video about Leaving Cert Spanish Present My Teacher Dave cover image for explainer video for the Spanish Present Tense regular verbs

Part 5 - Exam 2023 Q1 Listening

¡FANTÁSTICO!

So, now you have a nice process of writing your verbs, some super-important pronouns in English and Spanish and you have also practiced using some 100% regular verbs in sentences.

As you are a JC student who is going to be doing the Junior Cert exam, let’s see how we actually practice with the listening part of the exam!

Below is Question 1 of the 2023 Exam – follow the instructions 1-5 carefully to improve.

Play Video about young man quick quiz

1 – LISTEN to the audio

2 – ANSWER the questions

3 – RECORD your score

4 – DO vocab. activities

5 – REDO LISTENING to improve score

JC Listening Exam 2023 Q1

Q1 Comprehension [16M]

A) ¿Dónde está Manuel? [4M]

Q1 Vocabulary Part 1

Q1 Vocabulary Part 2

Part 6 - School Life

¡FANTÁSTICO!

Great! You now have the basics of how to use the Present Tense to talk about some of the things you like to eat.

Now, let’s go a bit further by talking about your school life.

We have used very basic verbs such as “comer“, “beber” and “tomar” but we’re going to use much more interesting ones here.

NOTES TO DOWNLOAD

To help with your studies, I have made a set of notes of the vocabulary for this listening.

I suggest you print these and store them in your Spanish folder for future revision.

Profesor Dave.