Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts

Friday, 7 September 2018

Los adjetivos.


Adjectivos descriptivos


  1. moreno = brown (hair)
  2. rubio = blond
  3. pelirojo = red hair
  4. trabajador = hard-working
  5. perezoso = lazy
  6. inteligente = intelligent
  7. tonto = stupide
  8. bueno = good
  9. malo = bad
  10. desordenado = disorganised
  11. ordenado = organised

Friday, 23 November 2012

Object pronouns












Position of Object Pronouns

An object pronoun generally goes before the verb.

Me dio el libro:  he gave me the book
Exceptions: when a conjugated verb is used with an infinitive or present participle, the object pronouns can either precede the conjugated verb or be attached to the infinitive or participle
Voy a leerlo,
lo voy a leer =  I am going to read it
Estoy leyéndolo,
Lo estoy leyendo= I am reading it.

In affirmative commands, the object pronoun must follow the verb and is attached to it
Léalo a su madre!:  read it to your mother!.

When an indirect object and a direct object pronoun are used together, the indirect goes before the direct object pronoun
No te lo doy: I am not giving it to you
Léamelo: read it to me.

If both pronouns are of the third person, se is used instead of the indirect object le or les
Se lo di: I gave it to him
This se is not to be confused with the reflexive se
Se las lavaron they washed them.

Use the following pronouns for a direct object
Me
Juan no me ve: John does not see me
Te
Te quiero mucho: I like you a lot
Le
Senor, no le comprendo: Sir, I don't understand you.
La
Senora, no la veo a Vd: Madame, I don't see you.
Lo
¿Dónde está tu libro? Ve a buscarlo! Where is your book? Go and get it!

Pronouns are definitely not an easy thing to understand. Practice is the best!
Follow this link for more explanations on the pronouns and other grammar topics.
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dict_en_es/front/notes


Friday, 5 October 2012

Kinesthetic activities

As I was browsing the web to find different kinesthetic activities for my students, I found the following one. You write sentences, split them into three, i.e. the sujects, the verbs and the complements. You give the bits of sentences to the pupils who in turn have to build the sentence up. To do this, the students need to get up and go round the classroom and find their match.
Recently, I did a similar activity to consolidate the past tense. They received different cards, subject, auxiliary verb, complement and past participle. However the students were working together on  4 sentences. So a little variation is beneficial. As I was doing a carousel, I could hear some other students desperate to get their hands on the cards. The same eagerness was apparent in another class, I told the students that they could get up and use the interactive whiteboard soon as they'd finish the first tasks. Soon enough, they got up in group of 4 to enjoy a snake and ladder grammar game on hobbies (testing opinions and present tense).

Friday, 2 March 2012

Imperfect tense in Spanish



The imperfect tense expresses an action or state of being that was continuous during the past and its completion is not specified. 
Exemples
Cuando tenía que estudiar inglés en la escuela, lo odiaba y no aprendía nada
When I had to study English at school, I hated it and I did not learn anything.

El almacenero que decía "a mí me gusta Gustavo" en la publicidad de Martínez pide al Estado un cambio de identidad para empezar una nueva vida.
The grocer who was saying ' I do like Gustavo' in the Martinez advertisement asks the State to provide him with a change of identity in order to start a new life.

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

The present tense, regular verbs




Hablo....I speak
hablas...you speak (singular)
habla     he/she/one speaks
hablamos......we speak
hablais....you speak (plural)
hablan....they speak