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Year 8

Relationships and daily life: personal 'a', pronouns

4 lessons

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  • Nouns and determiners
  • The present

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In this unit, pupils learn how to use personal 'a'. Pupils are introduced to reflexive verbs and reflexive pronouns 'me' and 'te'. They contrast these with possessive adjectives 'mi' and 'tu'. Key sounds revisited are hard g with ga, go, gu, and soft g with ge, gi, j.

This unit builds on pupils' knowledge of verbs in the present tense and provides them with new ways to talk about people with personal 'a' and reflexive verbs and pronouns. Pupils strengthen their knowledge of possessive adjectives 'mi', 'mis', 'tu' and 'tus', contrasting 'mi' and 'tu' with reflexive pronouns 'me' and 'te'. Pupils revisit key sounds hard g with ga, go, gu, and soft g with ge, gi, j.

  1. Routines: personal 'a'
  2. Routines: personal 'a' and contraction 'al'
  3. Relationships and routines: reflexive 'me'
  4. Relationships and routines: reflexive 'te'

  • Pupils know possessive adjectives 'mi', 'mis', 'tu', 'tus'.
  • Pupils know sound-symbol correspondences [ga], [go], [gu], [ge], [gi], [j].
  • Pupils know definite articles 'el' and 'la'.
  • Pupils know 'a' means 'to' after a verb.
  • Pupils know some adjectives come before the noun.
  • Pupils know a variety of regular -ar, -er, -ir verbs in the present tense.

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