A school trip: gustar-type verbs
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use gustar-type verbs to share opinions about activities on a school trip.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- If a word has a stress on the antepenultimate syllable there will always be an accent on the stressed vowel.
- Gustar-type verbs are used with an indirect object pronoun because they show an effect on someone or something.
- Other gustar-type verbs are 'molestar', 'importar', 'interesar', 'preocupar', 'alegrar', 'gustar' and 'encantar'.
- When an infinitive is used as a subject, we refer to it as ‘it’, so we must use the '-a' ending for gustar-type verbs.
Keywords
Antepenultimate syllable - pronouncing the third-last syllable more heavily than other syllables in a word
Indirect object pronouns - replaces the person, people or thing(s) that the verb action is done to, when the action is to me, for you, to them
Gustar-type verbs - type of verb that appears after an indirect object pronoun
Common misconception
With gustar-type verbs, the verb agrees with the person who likes something.
In gustar-type verbs, the verb agrees with the subject - the thing liked, literally, the thing that pleases - not the person, e.g. 'Me gusta la música.' Since 'música' is singular, the correct form is 'gusta'.
Teacher tip
The teacher might want to do task B2 as a speaking or a quick mini whiteboard activity.
Equipment
Students will need a copy of the texts in task A1.
Licence
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which word or phrase means 'everything'?
Q2.Match the Spanish and English.
to accompany, go with
to leave, leaving
to look, looking
to lend, lending
to take away, take off
to give, giving
Q3.Match the Spanish and English.
neighbourhood
box
football
market
gift, present
tower
Q4.Order the words to say: 'I call him and he calls her'.
Q5.Write in English: 'un jugador famoso'.
Q6.Write in Spanish: 'a funny night'.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Which words need an accent?
Q2.Match the Spanish and English.
to make happy
to interest, be interesting
to delight, be delighting
to please, be pleasing
to annoy, to bother
Q3.'No me __________ las flores'. Choose the correct missing word.
Q4.Write in Spanish: 'smoking worries you'.
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