Back to school! Classroom instructions
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can understand classroom instructions.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Revisiting vocabulary helps us review important and useful Spanish words that we can confidently use in class.
- In Spanish, we can use the 1st person plural - the 'we' form - for classroom instructions.
- To form the 'we' form with regular -ar verbs, remove the -ar ending and add -amos.
- To form the 'we' form with regular -er verbs, remove the -er ending and add -emos.
- With Spanish verbs, we don't usually need to use the pronouns; the verb ending tells us who does the action.
Keywords
Verb - a word that communicates actions or states
1st person plural - form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to 'we'
Common misconception
When using verbs in Spanish, we need to use pronouns, as we do in English to describe who is doing the action.
In Spanish, we don't usually need to use the pronoun as the verb ending tells us who is doing the action.
Teacher tip
Use the song regularly in the classroom. This will reinforce classroom verbs, instructions, the 1st person plural and vocabulary. And, of course, singing is fun!
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these is the 'we' form for a regular -AR verb?
Q2.What ending do you add to form the 'we' form with regular -ER verbs?
Q3.Put these words in the correct order to say 'we listen to music'.
Q4.Complete the sentence with the correct "we" form of the verb esuchar? Nosotros __________ (escuchar) a la profesora.
Q5.Write in Spanish: 'we understand'.
Q6.Match the infinitive verb with its correct 'we' form:
hablamos
comemos
abrimos
vivimos
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Which phrase means 'We write'?
Q2.Match the English and Spanish.
Escuchamos
Leeoms
Hablamos
Q3.Correct the following sentence to make it more natural: 'Nosotros bebemos agua todo los dia.'
Q4.Order the words to say: 'We open the books'.
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