Year 8
Year 8

Giving opinions about school

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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will be giving opinions about school subjects using verbs like 'gustar'. In our phonics session we will also revisit the silent 'h'.

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10 Questions

Q1.
Read the following sentence, who or what is the object? " Al perro le gusta el padre"

Correct answer: the dog
the father

Q2.
Read the following sentences, who or what is the object? "Al pájaro le interesa el perro"

Correct answer: the bird
the dog

Q3.
What does " difícil" mean?

Correct answer: difficult
easy
to interest
to please

Q4.
What does "gustar" mean?

to bother
to interest
Correct answer: to please
to scare

Q5.
Who is interested by the dog in this sentence "le interesa el perro" ?

Correct answer: he/she
me
you

Q6.
Translate "el perro le gusta al Daniel"

Daniel pleases the dog
Correct answer: The dog pleases Daniel

Q7.
Translate "A Lucía le preocupa el perro"

Lucía worries the dog
Correct answer: The dog worries Lucía

Q8.
Translate "importar"

to bother
to interest
Correct answer: to matter to / be important to
to please

Q9.
How would you say "they are important to me"?

me importa
Correct answer: me importan

Q10.
How would you say "The bird makes the father happy"?

Correct answer: Al padre le alegra el pájaro
Al pájaro le alegra el padre

10 Questions

Q1.
Complete the sentence: "Los profesores me ______."

gusta
Correct answer: gustan
gustar

Q2.
How do you say 'door'?

la mesa
Correct answer: la puerta
la ventana

Q3.
What does 'aburrido' mean?

Correct answer: boring
fun
silly

Q4.
How do you say 'easy'?

divertido
Correct answer: fácil
tranquilo

Q5.
What does 'le interesa' mean?

Correct answer: it interests him/her
it interests me
it interests us

Q6.
How do you say 'the window'?

la mesa
la puerta
Correct answer: la ventana

Q7.
How do you say 'you like'?

me gusta
Correct answer: te gusta
te molesta

Q8.
What does 'los idiomas' mean?

ideas
Correct answer: languages
lessons

Q9.
What does 'me molestan' mean?

it bothers me
Correct answer: they bother me
they worry me

Q10.
How do you say 'sometimes'?

Correct answer: a veces
nunca
siempre