Conversations: 'estar', 'ser', 'tener' singular persons
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can ask and answer questions using singular 'estar', 'ser' and 'tener' about things that I or someone else has.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Raise your voice at the end of a statement to ask a yes/no question with 'tener'. ‘¿Tienes …?’ is ‘Do you have?'.
- 'Qué' means 'what'; to ask ‘What do you have?’ use ‘¿Qué tienes?’.
- 'Unas' is 'some' for plural feminine nouns; 'unos' is ‘some’ for plural masculine nouns.
- Conversations involve careful listening and knowing vocabulary securely, especially key verbs 'estar', 'ser', 'tener'.
Keywords
Tener - to have, having
Qué - Spanish question word 'what'
Unas - 'some' for plural feminine nouns
Unos - 'some' for plural masculine nouns
Common misconception
Spanish needs a word for 'do' in questions, e.g. 'Do you have?' and 'What do you have?'.
Spanish questions are easy to form. Yes/no questions have the same words as statements; to make a question you raise the pitch of your voice. Information questions just add a question word, e.g. 'Qué ... ?' in front of the verb.
Teacher tip
The simplicity of Spanish questions can become clearer for pupils if they imagine a Spanish person trying to learn to ask English questions and having to add in 'do' or 'does', when there is no meaning 'do' attached to it. How would 'Do you do sport?' translate for a Spanish learner of English?
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.¿Cómo se dice en inglés?
friend
newspaper
also
silly
Q2.¿Cómo se dice serio y raro en inglés?
Q3.'Unos' is an article that goes before ...
Q4.Match the indefinite article to the correct noun.
teléfono
pregunta
periódicos
tareas
Q5.Match the Spanish with the English. Some punctuation is missing.
How do you say 'question' in English
You say 'also' in Spanish
I have some plants
You have a car and it is white
Do I have some bottles
Do you have a horse and is it white
Q6.Put this dialogue in order.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the Spanish with the English questions.
What are you like?
Where are you?
What do you have?
How do you say?
How are you?
Q2.Complete the Spanish sentence translation. Today I am in Madrid. Hoy en Madrid.
Q3.Place the indefinite articles in this order: 1 feminine singular, 2 masculine singular, 3 feminine plural, 4 masculine plural
Q4.Write in Spanish: some friends
Q5.Translate this sentence: I have some tasks.
Q6.Change this question: '¿qué tienes en casa?' (what do you have in your house?) to 'do you have a house?': '¿ ?'
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