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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.

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
  • 18 parts to scroll through
  • 4 quick checks
  • Marked quiz at the end
  • Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

coherentlyconfidentlyincreasinglyaccuratepronunciation

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Daily routine with reflexive verbs

An English teaching video on this topic from Lingo Mastery Spanish. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.

In a nutshell

Speak coherently and confidently, with increasingly accurate pronunciation and intonation

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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.

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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)
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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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Explore the idea

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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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Explore the idea

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Learn

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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Quick check

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Quick check

'I get up at seven' is...

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Reset break

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Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

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.

Stop here for now
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Quick check

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Quick check

'se acuesta' means...

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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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Explore the idea

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Learn

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.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

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.

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Quick check

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Quick check

Which is radical changing?

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Quick check

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Quick check

Which word sequences a routine?

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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.
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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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Mastery quiz

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Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: Daily routine with reflexive verbs

6 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

  1. 1. Nosotros form of levantarse is...

  2. 2. 'me visto' means...

  3. 3. Stress in 'ducho' falls on...

  4. 4. 'a eso de las ocho' means...

  5. 5. The reflexive pronoun sits...

  6. 6. 'nos despertamos' shows...

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Lesson round-up

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Lesson round-up

Ready when you are

Quiz score

Not sat

Games

Not played

Points this lesson

0

Best run

0 in a row

Luna: 0 out of 4 on the practice checks. Only if you feel up to it — one more?

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Do the work

Your written work for this lesson

This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.

Extract

Une journée à Lyon

Samedi matin, je me lève à sept heures et demie. Je prends le petit déjeuner avec ma sœur — du pain, du beurre et un chocolat chaud. Ensuite, nous prenons le bus jusqu'au centre-ville.

J'aime beaucoup Lyon parce qu'il y a un grand marché près du fleuve. Ma sœur préfère les magasins, mais moi, je préfère le marché : c'est moins cher et c'est plus intéressant. À midi, nous mangeons un sandwich au parc.

L'après-midi, il commence à pleuvoir, alors nous rentrons à la maison en tram. Le soir, je fais mes devoirs et je regarde un film avec mes parents.

Original text written for Good Learning Co.

Reading questions

  1. In English, say what the writer does in the morning, at midday and in the evening.
  2. Find the phrases that give an opinion and a reason, and copy them out.
  3. Write 8–10 sentences about your own Saturday, using at least three phrases from the text.

  • Written practice

    Writing

    Write the sentences out in the language, then translate them back into English.

    8–10 sentences

  • Vocabulary page

    Working out

    Copy the new words, cover them, and test yourself. Note the ones you keep missing.

    15 words

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