Infinitives Spanish Grammar in Context

These two-page notes include a definition of infinitives, how to recognize them in Spanish and English, and discuss their use with helper verbs (quiere, puede, debe, etc.)

The notes also include a short reading for early first-year Spanish students with comprehension questions and personalized questions for discussion, as well as instructions that highlight the infinitives and helper verbs in the story.

After completing this lesson, students should not be expected to be able to correctly produce the infinitive form that corresponds to conjugated verbs. The objective of this lesson is for students to be able to recognize patterns in receptive language (reading and listening) and to better understand what they mean. In this case, students will be able to better understand why they see some verbs that end in -ar, -er, and -ir and what it means when they see that pattern.

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