TEMA: Playing with ‘jugar’ TEMA: Playing with ‘jugar’ and other sports-related and other sports-related verbsverbs

PREGUNTA ESENCIAL: How do I use the verbs in Lesson 6.1 to talk about sports?

Español 2 – Unidad 6.1

REPASO: REPASO:

There is more than one way to say the English verb to play in Spanish.

Jugar Jugar is used when referring to playing a sport or a game

TocarTocar is used when you mean playing an instrument or music

Jugar – Jugar – to play to play Jugar is a stem-changing verb in

which the u changes to ue in all forms except ‘nosotros’ and ‘vosotros’

Therefore it’s one of the “boot verbs”

Here’s how you conjugate Here’s how you conjugate it:it:

jugar

juego

jugamos

juegas jugáis

juega juegan

Translate:Translate:

Juego – Juegas – Juega – – – Jugamos – Juegan – – –

Juego – I playJuegas – You play

(faml.)

Juega – He plays – She plays – You play (frml.)

Jugamos – We playJuegan – They play – They play – You (plrl.) play

¿Qué hace…? ¿Qué hace…? (Describe what is he is doing in the (Describe what is he is doing in the picture)picture)

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Perder – Perder – to lose to lose Perder is a stem-changing verb

in which the e changes to ie in all forms except ‘nosotros’ and ‘vosotros’

Therefore it’s also one of the “boot verbs”

Try and conjugate perderperder:*OJO: Remember, it is an –ER verb!*OJO: Remember, it is an –ER verb!

perder

pierdo perdemos

pierdes perdéis

pierde pierden

Translate:Translate:

They are losing points.

The team is losing the game.

We lose equipment.

They are losing points. Ellos pierdenpierden

puntos. The team is losing the

game. El equipo pierdepierde el

partido. We lose the

equipment. PerdimosPerdimos el equipo.

Competir – Competir – to compete to compete Competir is a stem-changing

verb in which the e changes to i in all forms except ‘nosotros’ and ‘vosotros’

Therefore…Yup… Boot verb!

Conjugate Conjugate competircompetir::

competir

compito

competimos

compites

competís

compite compiten

Translate:Translate:

I compete on the basketball court.

Do you compete with the other players?

I compete on the basketball court.

CompitoCompito en la cancha de básquetbol.

Do you compete with other players?

¿CompitesCompites con otros jugadores?

Ganar – Ganar – to winto winGanar does NOT have a stem-

change and is conjugated like a regular –ar verb

Conjugate Conjugate ganarganar::

ganar

gano

ganamos

ganas ganáis

gana ganan

¡El Fin!¡El Fin!