A school trip: gender, 'un', 'una', and 'tengo'
Learning outcomes
I can use 'tengo' and 'un' and 'una' with nouns to say what belongings I have.
I can recognise and pronounce [ce].
A school trip: gender, 'un', 'una', and 'tengo'
Learning outcomes
I can use 'tengo' and 'un' and 'una' with nouns to say what belongings I have.
I can recognise and pronounce [ce].
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Lesson details
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- The sound-symbol correspondence [ce] can be practised by pronouncing words such as 'centro' and 'doce'.
- All nouns in Spanish have grammatical gender, masculine or feminine.
- The masculine word for 'a/an' is 'un', the feminine word for 'a/an' is 'una'.
- The verb 'to have' is 'tener'; 'I have' is 'tengo'.
Keywords
[ce] - sound-symbol correspondence
Grammatical gender - nouns in Spanish are either masculine or feminine
Indefinite article - the words ‘un’ and ‘una’, meaning ‘a’ and ‘an’
Common misconception
Grammatical gender is the same as biological gender. If a word is feminine we think of it as a girl if it is masculine we think of it as a boy.
Grammatical gender is not the same as biological gender. Spelling clues help to identify Spanish grammatical gender: nouns ending in -o are usually masculine, nouns ending in -a are usually feminine.
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