1. ¡¡¡Lección de los tiempos progresivos??? Progressive tense lesson!?!?!?

2. The progressive tense describes actions in progress I’m eating? ¿Estoy comiendo? He was eating? ¿Estaba comiendo?

3. You can use estar in the present, imperfect, preterit, future, condicional, subjunctives I’m eating. ◦ Estoy comiendo. I was eating. ◦ Estaba comiendo. I will be eating. ◦ Estaré comiendo. I would be eating, if I weren’t sleeping. ◦ Estaría comiendo, si no estuviera durmiendo. It’s good that I’m eating. ◦ Es bueno que yo esté comiendo.

4. How do you form this thing? estar + the present participle (-ing word in English)

5. The present participle / gerund -ar verbs change to: ◦ -ando -er / ir verbs change to: ◦ -iendo Comer ◦ Comiendo Trabajar ◦ trabajando

6. The present participle / gerund What’s the difference between the present participle and the gerund? I don’t know; what is this, English class?

7. The present participle / gerund (Actually, in English the –ing word is considered a gerund if it functions like a noun [“Swimming is bad”] and it’s a present participle if it works with another verb [“I’m swimming”])

8. The present participle / gerund: ¡-ir stem-changing! -ir stem changing verbs get the same change in the gerund as in the preterit: morir: muriendo pedir: pidiendo seguir: siguiendo sentir: sintiendo

9. The present participle / gerund: ¡Vowel (or vowel sound) in front of -er / -ir! caer: cayendo zambullir: zambullendo traer: trayendo

10. The present participle / gerund: ¡Irregulars! decir: diciendo poder: pudiendo ir: yendo***** ***** Don’t ever use this form in your life and you’ll be fine; to say “I am going” say “Voy” etc.

11. Other verbs with the gerund continuar / seguir = to continue doing something andar = to go around doing something ir = to gradually be doing something Sigo comiendo. ◦ I keep eating. Ella anda comiendo. ◦ She goes around eating. Vamos comiendo más y más. ◦ We’re gradually eating more and more.

12. Attach pronouns; accent on the letter before -ndo comiéndolo diciéndoselas masticándola

13. El infintivo vs. El gerundio The infinitive vs. The gerund!!!!!

14. When the –ing word in English functions like a noun, you have to use the infinitive in Spanish Reading is good. Leer es bueno. I like reading more than eating. Me gusta leer más que comer. After reading, sometimes I read more. Después de leer, a veces leo más.

15. You can learn a lot by reading things. Puedes aprender mucho leyendo cosas. He walked home, reading the whole way. Caminaba a casa, leyendo todo el camino. She slowly gave way to the soft slumber of dreamland, reading all the while Ella [etc.], leyendo. The –ing / -ndo form can function like an adverb that describes the main verbal action in both English and in Spanish; in English it’s sometimes Introduced with by

16. Escribir en español You won’t win any friends by tricking them. Surviving is a good option.

17. You knew this was coming: What’s Juan doing? He’s still reading, falling, saying and dying. I wouldn’t be listening to music if I were sleeping. Juan was ordering lemonade when he fell down. Juan is eating it. We are gradually learning them. Surviving is a good option.