icon-background-square
New
New
Year 7

Poem: understand and respond creatively

I can use ‘dar’, ‘querer’ and other language I know to adapt a poem in my speaking and writing.

icon-background-square
New
New
Year 7

Poem: understand and respond creatively

I can use ‘dar’, ‘querer’ and other language I know to adapt a poem in my speaking and writing.

warning

These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Switch to our new teaching resources now - designed by teachers and leading subject experts, and tested in classrooms.

Lesson details

Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons

Key learning points

  1. ‘Hay’ or ‘tiene’ with an indefinite article introduces a noun.
  2. A definite article often refers back to a previously introduced noun.
  3. To express what someone wants, use ‘querer’, and to give something, use ‘dar’.

Keywords

  • Hay - verb meaning ‘there is’ or ‘there are’

  • Dar - verb meaning ‘to give’

  • Querer - verb meaning ‘to want’

Common misconception

All nouns in Spanish are always used with an article, a word for a, some or the.

Some nouns are uncountable and have no plural. Use these without an article, as in English. For example, 'quiere dinero' means 'she, he wants money'.

Students can be shown a video or the teacher could model the adapting of the poem for small group performances, so that each student says one line or one word, and there is some choral repetition or use of different moods.
speech-bubble
Teacher tip
equipment-required

Equipment

copyright

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2025), licensed on
Open Government Licence version 3.0
except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

Lesson video

Loading...

Some of our videos, including non-English language videos, do not have captions.

6 Questions

Q1.
un lápiz.
Quiero necesitar
Necesito querer
Correct answer: Necesito usar
Quiero uso
Q2.
'Do you need help with the answer?' in Spanish is:
¿Cómo necesitas la respuesta?
¿Cuándo necesitas la respuesta?
Correct answer: ¿Necesitas ayuda con la respuesta?
¿Necesitas la respuesta?
Q3.
Order the conversation correctly (capital letters and puncutation are missing).
1 - necesito un lápiz
2 - aquí tienes
3 - gracias
4 - de nada
Q4.
Which letter are these words missing? _erdad, _erde, _er, jo_en
Correct Answer: v
Q5.
Antonio Machado was born in...
Madrid
Barcelona
Valencia
Correct answer: Seville
Q6.
'Seville' in Spanish is...
Sevile
Sevil
Correct answer: Sevilla
Ceville

4 Questions

Q1.
Match the Spanish with the English
Correct Answer:das,you give
tick

you give

Correct Answer:doy,I give
tick

I give

Correct Answer:quiero,I want
tick

I want

Correct Answer:quieres,you want
tick

you want

Correct Answer:da,he, she, it gives
tick

he, she, it gives

Correct Answer:quiere,he, she, it wants
tick

he, she, it wants

Q2.
What word in English sounds closest to the Spanish 'hay'?
hi
hey
Correct answer: eye
hay
Q3.
When writing your own text in Spanish from scratch, it is a good idea to .
work with a partner
not use any resources
use a dictionary
Correct answer: use a model
Q4.
Choose the definite article.
Correct answer: el
él
un
ellas

Additional material

Download additional material