KS2 · Spanish · Year 3
Ask where: information questions with '¿dónde?'
Me and others: 'estar' for location and state
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Your learning goal
I can use a range of adjectives to ask and answer questions about how and where someone is today.
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Ask where: information questions with '¿dónde?': 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.
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I can use a range of adjectives to ask and answer questions about how and where someone is today.
Key learning points
- Spanish statements become questions by raising tone of voice at the end.
- Spanish uses two question marks; the one at the front of the question is upside down.
- When an adjective ends in -e or -z it can describe a female and male person or animal; it does not change.
- Many cities in Spanish-speaking countries contain [a] [o] [u].
Words to know
- dónde
- question word for 'where?'
- cómo
- question word for 'how?'
- estoy
- part of the verb 'estar', 'to be, being', meaning 'I am'
- estás
- part of the verb 'estar', 'to be, being', meaning 'you are'
Common mistakes
Questions in English and Spanish are written in the same way.
Questions in Spanish need an upside-down (inverted) question mark at the begininng and a regular question mark at the end. This is because the verb and person do not swap in Spanish questions, as they do in English.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Teachers might want to use this opportunity for pupils with a different cultural background to learn the names of their countries of origin and share with the class. This might provide a bit of a challenge too as there are likely to be unknown phonemes in those country names.