LearnModule 3 · Lesson 10 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2, first halfUnit 2 · Ir a + infinitivo, and new verb families

Mi rutina — routine with times

Module 3 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2, first half), lesson 10 of 30: Module 2's clock meets your verbs: Empiezo la escuela a las ocho y media. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.

The words

Spanish	English	Say it
terminar	to finish	tehr-mee-NAR
yo empiezo a las ocho	I start at eight	yoh ehm-PYEH-soh ah lahs OH-choh
yo termino a las tres	I finish at three	yoh tehr-MEE-noh ah lahs TREHS
yo trabajo	I work	yoh trah-BAH-hoh
la rutina	the routine	lah rroo-TEE-nah
después	after	dehs-PWEHS
antes	before	AHN-tehs
después de la escuela	after school	dehs-PWEHS deh lah ehs-KWEH-lah

Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.

La regla · The rule

Module 2's clock meets your verbs: Empiezo la escuela a las ocho y media. Termino a las tres. Por la noche voy a leer.

Y también · And also

Three tenses now live in one day: this morning (pretérito), right now (presente), tonight (ir a + infinitive). Antes (before) and después (after) put them in order: después de la escuela.

Ojo · Watch out

después de takes de before a noun: después de la escuela, antes de la cena. On their own, antes and después stand alone.

Do it now — on paper

Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with terminar.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 10 in Module 3 are the written half of this page.

This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.

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