Spanish

This term we will be learning how to describe our family and friends, please see below the areas will will be covering.

Key skills

Language comprehension

Listening and selecting information from short audio passages to give an appropriate response.
Identifying key information in simple writing.
Using a range of language detective strategies to decode new vocabulary.

Language production

Planning, asking and answering questions.
Speaking in full sentences using known vocabulary.
Speaking and reading aloud with increasing confidence and fluency.
Adapting model sentences to express different ideas.
Constructing a short text on a familiar topic.
Using adapted phrases to describe a person.
Key knowledge
Grammar
To know that plural nouns referring to nouns of mixed gender always take the masculine form.
To know whether to use the pronouns el ‘he’ or ella ‘she’ (or the gender neutral pronoun elle) when describing someone.
To know that the ending of verbs change according to the subject.
To know how to form the first three persons of the verb tener – to have, llamarse – to be called, vivir – to live, and gustar – to like.
To know that there is no possessive apostrophe in Spanish but that to say ‘my mother’s father’ the Spanish would say el padre de mi madre (the father of my mother).

hermano

hermana

se llama

vive

tiene

este/esta

¿Tienes hermanos?