Daily routine with reflexive verbs
Me levanto, me ducho, me visto. Reflexive verbs describe things you do to yourself — and they carry almost every routine answer you will ever give.
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Speak coherently and confidently, with increasingly accurate pronunciation and intonation
Key learning points
- • Two things change, not one
- • Common radical changes
- • Sequencing words
- • Saying it well
This lesson at a glance
- 30 minutes
- 24 parts to scroll through
- 4 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
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Daily routine with reflexive verbs
Me levanto, me ducho, me visto. Reflexive verbs describe things you do to yourself — and they carry almost every routine answer you will ever give.
In a nutshell
Speak coherently and confidently, with increasingly accurate pronunciation and intonation
What you already know
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Before we start
What you already know
You should already know present-tense -ar, -er and -ir endings and how to tell the time in Spanish.
Key words
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Key words
Words you'll need today
- reflexivo
- a verb whose action returns to the subject
- me / te / se
- reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself, himself/herself
- levantarse
- to get up
- luego / después
- then / afterwards
- a eso de
- at about (a time)
Reset break
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Learning cycle
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Learning cycle 1 of 2
Reflexive pronouns and endings
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
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Learn
Two things change, not one
Both the pronoun and the ending must match the person: me levanto, te levantas, se levanta, nos levantamos, os levantáis, se levantan. Say them as pairs from the start so the pronoun never gets forgotten.
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Common radical changes
Several routine verbs also change their stem: despertarse becomes me despierto, acostarse becomes me acuesto, vestirse becomes me visto. The nosotros form keeps the original stem: nos despertamos.
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Quick check
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Quick check
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Learning cycle
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Learning cycle 2 of 2
Sequencing a whole day aloud
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
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Sequencing words
Primero, luego, después, más tarde and finalmente turn a list into a paragraph. Add times with a las siete or a eso de las ocho to give detail without new vocabulary.
Explore the idea
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Saying it well
Spanish stress is regular: words ending in a vowel, n or s stress the second-to-last syllable. Le-VAN-to, du-CHO. Keep vowels short and pure — Spanish does not glide them the way English does.
Quick check
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Quick check
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Common mix-ups
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Common mix-ups
Things people often get wrong
- Do not drop the pronoun: levanto a las siete means 'I lift something', not 'I get up'.
- The pronoun goes before the conjugated verb, not after it.
- Radical-changing verbs keep the plain stem in the nosotros form.
Challenge round
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Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Challenge round
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Game · Recall cards
'I get up at seven' is...
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Exit quiz
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Exit quiz
Show what you've learned
6 questions, marked together at the end. Nothing is timed.
1. Nosotros form of levantarse is...
2. 'me visto' means...
3. Stress in 'ducho' falls on...
4. 'a eso de las ocho' means...
5. The reflexive pronoun sits...
6. 'nos despertamos' shows...
Mastery quiz
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Daily routine with reflexive verbs
4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. 'I get up at seven' is...
2. 'se acuesta' means...
3. Which is radical changing?
4. Which word sequences a routine?
Lesson round-up
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