Activities: plural 'hacer' and subject pronouns
Learning outcomes
I can use subject pronouns and plural forms of ‘hacer’ to contrast activities that ‘we’ or ‘they’ do.
I can use my phonics knowledge to support my understanding when listening and transcribing.
- Year 8
Activities: plural 'hacer' and subject pronouns
Learning outcomes
I can use subject pronouns and plural forms of ‘hacer’ to contrast activities that ‘we’ or ‘they’ do.
I can use my phonics knowledge to support my understanding when listening and transcribing.
Lesson details
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Key learning points
- Applying the two rules about final syllable stress enables correct use of accents when transcribing.
- Listening to familiar language in new contexts and transcribing it deepens vocabulary knowledge.
- 'Hacer', irregular in its I form ‘hago’, is regular in other forms. We do, make is ‘hacemos’, they do, make is ‘hacen’.
- Spanish subject pronouns add emphasis or clarity, e.g. nosotros hacemos los deberes, mientras que ellas hacen deporte.
- ‘We’ is nosotros for boys/men or mixed gender groups, nosotras for girls/women; ‘they’ also has two forms, ellos, ellas.
Keywords
Final syllable stress - pronouncing the final syllable more heavily than other syllables in a word
Hacer - Spanish verb meaning 'to do, doing' or to make, making'
Subject pronoun - represents the person, people or thing(s) doing the verb e.g. 'I', 'we', 'they'
Common misconception
There is just one word for ‘we’ and one word for ‘they’ in Spanish.
Spanish has two words each for ‘we’ and ‘they’. The plural pronoun ‘we’ is ‘nosotros’ for boys/men or mixed gender groups, ‘nosotras’ for girls/women; ‘they’ also has two forms, 'ellos' and 'ellas'.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the verbs with the most suitable noun.
Q2.Which of these forms of the verb 'intentar' (to try, trying) have final syllable stress (pronounce the last syllable more heavily)?
Q3.Match the Spanish and the English.
Q4.Which of these words are Spanish subject pronouns?
Q5.Match the Spanish and English.
Q6.In which of these phrases does 'hacer' translate as 'make'?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these forms of the verb 'tomar' have final syllable stress?
Q2.Match the Spanish to the English.
Q3.Which part of the verb 'hacer' is irregular?
Q4.Match the Spanish and English subject pronouns.
