The rest of the drills require the student to supply appropriate person-number forms of certain verbs, as he changes the subject pronouns:
Tú _______________.
Nosotros _________.
etc.
A teacher who is concerned about courtesy levels may
want to add a constant-change drill in which the student
subtitutes formal for informal second-person forms, and
vice versa:
| Tú estas en la clase. | Usted esta en la clase. |
| Tú viajas a Bogota. | Usted viaja a Bogota. |
| Tú hablas español. | Usted habla espanol. |
| etc. | etc. |
Such a drill might involve the use of non-verbal cues (e.g.,pictures, gestures) to dramatize the difference, since it does not exist in English on the level of verb inflection. Looking ahead to occasions for use which involve questions, one might also explore briefly the changes in word order that are found in the formation of questions like those that appear from place to place in this lesson:
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