How is Sofía? Using 'está' to say how someone is today.
Learning outcomes
I can use a range of adjectives to understand how someone is feeling today.
I can read aloud and distinguish between the key sounds [a] [o] and [u].
How is Sofía? Using 'está' to say how someone is today.
Learning outcomes
I can use a range of adjectives to understand how someone is feeling today.
I can read aloud and distinguish between the key sounds [a] [o] and [u].
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Lesson details
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Key learning points
- The sound-symbol correspondences [a], [o] and [u] can be practised with many place names in Spanish-speaking countries.
- Masculine adjectives that end in ‘o’ change to an ‘a’ when the person or animal being described is female.
- Adjectives ending in –e or -z can describe a female and male person or animal; they do not change.
Keywords
Está - part of the verb estar, to be, being meaning she, he, it is
Adjective - a word that gives information about a noun
[a] - pronounced as in 'casa'
[o] - pronounced as in 'dos'
[u] - pronounced as in 'universo'
Common misconception
Adjectives ending in -e and -z change to -a when the person or animal described is female.
When an adjective ends in –e or -z , it can describe a female and male person or animal. It does not change.
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Starter quiz
5 Questions
fast (f)
slow (m)
ready (m)
pleased (f)
serious (m)
I am pleased now.
I am calm.
Hello. He is absent.
Goodbye. She is tired.
how
today
now
in
Exit quiz
6 Questions
describe male subjects
describe both male and female subjects
describe female subjects
Good afternoon
Hello
Goodbye
Good morning