Describe things and people: singular adjective agreement, to be being
Describe things and people: singular adjective agreement, to be being
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Why this why now
This unit develops pupils’ use of reference resources and builds on knowledge of nouns and adjectives, consolidated through written practice in new contexts. Having previously learnt the most common meaning of ‘tener’ to have, pupils now learn its idiomatic meaning to be. This, together with the learning of possessives ‘mi’ and ‘tu’ and pronouns ‘él’ and ‘la’ broadens pupils’ communicative range, enabling them to talk about age, physical states and their favourite things. Extending cultural knowledge, the end of this unit recycles new and previous language in the context of Christmas in Peru.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know hard 'g' sounds [ga] [go] [gu].
- Pupils know that adjectives change word final spelling to agree for gender.
- Pupils know that many Spanish adjectives follow the noun.
- Pupils know that Spanish verbs are often used without pronouns.
- Pupils know that the verb 'tener' means to have, having.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit develops pupils’ use of reference resources and builds on knowledge of nouns and adjectives, consolidated through written practice in new contexts. Having previously learnt the most common meaning of ‘tener’ to have, pupils now learn its idiomatic meaning to be. This, together with the learning of possessives ‘mi’ and ‘tu’ and pronouns ‘él’ and ‘la’ broadens pupils’ communicative range, enabling them to talk about age, physical states and their favourite things. Extending cultural knowledge, the end of this unit recycles new and previous language in the context of Christmas in Peru.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know hard 'g' sounds [ga] [go] [gu].
- Pupils know that adjectives change word final spelling to agree for gender.
- Pupils know that many Spanish adjectives follow the noun.
- Pupils know that Spanish verbs are often used without pronouns.
- Pupils know that the verb 'tener' means to have, having.
Describe things and people: singular adjective agreement, to be being
In this unit, pupils use reference resources to write picture descriptions inspired by authentic poems, and story adaptations. They learn determiners ‘mi’ and ‘tu’, pronouns ‘él’ and ‘ella’ and ‘tener’ with meaning be in the contexts of age, states, friends, favourite things and Christmas.
11 lessons in unit
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