1. Conjugation and tenses
Juan Arévalo

2. 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?’
‘John is my friend. He live near my house and he going to my school. He are being my best friend. He play football and like tennis too.’

3. 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.

4. Conjugation We need to conjugate verbs in French too.​
Luckily there is a step-by-step process for this.​
Verbs in Spanish come in three groups: -er, -ir and –re.​
Today we will focus on -er verbs​
Why do we call them ar verbs?​
étudier
écouter​
parler
bavarder​
réviser
aimer

5. Conjugation: an example
Let’s use parler as an example
Step​
Example​
Notes​
Start with the infinitive​
parler​
to talk​
The infinitive is the ‘to do’ form of the verb found in the dictionary​
Take off the ending​
parl
talk​
The ending is always the last two letters​
Put something back​
parle
I talk​
The ending depends on the person and the tense​

6. Conjugation: putting something back on
For –er verbs we use the following endings:
Person​
Ending​
Example​ I​
-e​
parle​
You​
-es​
parles​
He/she/it​ -e
We​
-ons​
parlons​
You pl.​
-ez
parlez​
They​
-ent
parlent​