Question

For this portfolio you are going to write two paragraphs about your childhood. Your diary entry should include the following information:
*What you were like as a child.
*What you used to do as a child.
*Use the vocab words (4) > de niño, la guardería infantil, dormir, vestir, and la entrada
*At least two appropriate uses of indirect object pronouns.
*At least two appropriate uses of imperfect tense (two regular verbs and, two irregular)

Answer 1

Answer:

1. De niño, me gustaba mucho jugar en el jardín con mi hermano. Si hacía frío siempre vestía un abrigo. Mi mamá me lo ponía después de desayunar. Yo era un niño tímido pero bien portado. Trataba de no pelearme con nadie y no causarles problemas a mis padres.
2. Cuando era muy niño mi papá me llevaba a la guardería infantil en carro y me dejaba en la entrada de la escuela con el almuerzo que me preparaba mi mamá. Por las tardes, hacía mis tareas y practicaba el piano. Entre semana tenía que dormir siempre a tiempo para ir a la escuela al día siguiente.

Explanation:

The requirements for the two paragraphs are highlighted in bold.

The translations are:

1. When I was a child I liked playing in the backyard with my brother. If it was cold, I always wore a jacket. My mom put it on me after breakfast. I was a shy child, but I behaved well. I tried not to quarrel with anyone or cause problems for my parents.
2. When I was a child, my dad took me to preschool and dropped me off at the school entrance with the lunch that my mom made for me. In the afternoons, I did my homework and practiced piano. On weekdays I had to go to bed on time to go to school the next day.

The indirect object pronouns me, te, le, nos, os, and les take the place of another word in the sentence.

The imperfect tense is another type of past tense that in Spanish is used to talk about what used to be done or what was happening before something else happened.  

Regular verbs do not have stem changes and follow the basic conjugation rules.  

Irregular verbs do undergo stem changes, but they usually do so only in certain forms (such as I, you, he, she, they).