Activities: plural 'hacer' and subject pronouns
Learning outcomes
I can use subject pronouns and plural forms of ‘hacer’ to contrast activities that ‘we’ or ‘they’ do.
I can use my phonics knowledge to support my understanding when listening and transcribing.
Activities: plural 'hacer' and subject pronouns
Learning outcomes
I can use subject pronouns and plural forms of ‘hacer’ to contrast activities that ‘we’ or ‘they’ do.
I can use my phonics knowledge to support my understanding when listening and transcribing.
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Key learning points
- Applying the two rules about final syllable stress enables correct use of accents when transcribing.
- Listening to familiar language in new contexts and transcribing it deepens vocabulary knowledge.
- 'Hacer', irregular in its I form ‘hago’, is regular in other forms. We do, make is ‘hacemos’, they do, make is ‘hacen’.
- Spanish subject pronouns add emphasis or clarity, e.g. nosotros hacemos los deberes, mientras que ellas hacen deporte.
- ‘We’ is nosotros for boys/men or mixed gender groups, nosotras for girls/women; ‘they’ also has two forms, ellos, ellas.
Keywords
Final syllable stress - pronouncing the final syllable more heavily than other syllables in a word
Hacer - Spanish verb meaning 'to do, doing' or to make, making'
Subject pronoun - represents the person, people or thing(s) doing the verb e.g. 'I', 'we', 'they'
Common misconception
There is just one word for ‘we’ and one word for ‘they’ in Spanish.
Spanish has two words each for ‘we’ and ‘they’. The plural pronoun ‘we’ is ‘nosotros’ for boys/men or mixed gender groups, ‘nosotras’ for girls/women; ‘they’ also has two forms, 'ellos' and 'ellas'.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
la canción
el premio
el autobús
contestar la pregunta
al concierto
el café
I sang
I won
I tried
I had (ate, drank)
I danced
I listened
to do, to make
I do, I make
you do, you make
she, he does, she, he makes
Exit quiz
6 Questions
up to, as far as, until
whereas
while
around, through, because of
besides, as well
so, therefore
I
you
she
he
we (mpl, mfpl)
they (fpl)