Lesson 8: Spanish – Lesson 8: Last Weekend – Short Trips and Shopping
In this lesson, we introduce the past tense (pretérito indefinido) through the theme of 'last weekend': short trips, shopping, and expressing simple opinions.
About this lesson
Lesson 8 builds on previous lessons about everyday situations by introducing how to talk about past events. We'll discuss where we went, how we travelled, what we bought, and what we liked or didn't like. The focus is on key expressions in the pretérito indefinido, time markers (ayer, el fin de semana pasado), and simple opinions about price and quality (fue barato/caro, me gustó).
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Briefly recount a past weekend using the pretérito indefinido (fui, hice, compré, tomé).
- Use time markers such as ayer, el sábado pasado, and el mes pasado.
- Describe a trip and a shopping experience, and express simple opinions: me gustó / no me gustó, fue barato/caro.
- Ask and understand simple directions in a past context (pregunté cómo llegar…).
- Combine past actions in chronological order using linking words (luego, después, al final).