KS2 · Spanish · Year 3
A postcard: writing about myself
What I and others do: singular regular verbs in the present tense
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Your learning goal
I can use a range of language to write a postcard about myself.
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A postcard: writing about myself: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
Original teaching resources
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I can use a range of language to write a postcard about myself.
Key learning points
- Knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences helps when pronouncing unfamiliar words.
- All Spanish nouns are masculine or feminine and the words for 'a/an' and 'the' are 'un, una' and 'el, la'.
- Adjectives agree for gender and many follow the noun.
- Verb endings indicate the person doing the action of the verb and pronouns are often not used.
Words to know
- [gu]
- pronounced as in the word 'preguntar'
Common mistakes
There is one word for 'the' in Spanish as in English.
'El' is the word for 'the' for masculine nouns; 'la' is the word for 'the' for feminine nouns.
For parents, carers and teachers
- For the final writing task, pupils could write on actual postcards to form a display of their written work in the classroom. Teachers could also explore the possibility of setting up real penfriends with a link Spanish school to create a real context for postcard writing.