Popular culture: la cultura popular y tradicional
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Why this why now
In this unit, pupils learn the affirmative imperative of second person verbs to give instructions to someone visiting a festival such as La Tomatina. Pupils strengthen first person forms of 'estar' with a present participle, and build on this with present participles with spelling changes where the stem ends in a vowel, or verbs like 'pedir'. Pupils embed knowledge of a range of grammatical structures such as possessive adjectives, reflexives, plural rules, and position of adverbs of location with 'del' and 'de la' in the context of customs and festivals.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know to use 'estar' for states and location and 'ser' for traits and can conjugate all persons of both verbs in the present tense.
- Pupils can conjugate singular and plural persons of -ar, -er, -ir verbs in the present tense.
- Pupils know possessive adjectives 'mi', 'mis', 'tu', 'tus'.
- Pupils know reflexive pronouns 'me' and 'te'.
- Pupils know how to form plural nouns with -s and -es.
- Pupils know how to use adverbs of place with 'del' and 'de la'.
- Pupils know how to form the present continuous by using 'estar' with a present participle.
- Pupils know sound-symbol correspondences [z], [ce], [s], [ll].
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Why this why now
In this unit, pupils learn the affirmative imperative of second person verbs to give instructions to someone visiting a festival such as La Tomatina. Pupils strengthen first person forms of 'estar' with a present participle, and build on this with present participles with spelling changes where the stem ends in a vowel, or verbs like 'pedir'. Pupils embed knowledge of a range of grammatical structures such as possessive adjectives, reflexives, plural rules, and position of adverbs of location with 'del' and 'de la' in the context of customs and festivals.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know to use 'estar' for states and location and 'ser' for traits and can conjugate all persons of both verbs in the present tense.
- Pupils can conjugate singular and plural persons of -ar, -er, -ir verbs in the present tense.
- Pupils know possessive adjectives 'mi', 'mis', 'tu', 'tus'.
- Pupils know reflexive pronouns 'me' and 'te'.
- Pupils know how to form plural nouns with -s and -es.
- Pupils know how to use adverbs of place with 'del' and 'de la'.
- Pupils know how to form the present continuous by using 'estar' with a present participle.
- Pupils know sound-symbol correspondences [z], [ce], [s], [ll].
Popular culture: la cultura popular y tradicional
This unit introduces the affirmative imperative of second person singular -ar, -er and -ir verbs. Pupils revisit 'ser' and 'estar', the present tense with simple and continuous functions, and the present continuous. Pupils learn spelling changes for the present participle where stems end in a vowel.
6 lessons in unit
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