KS3 · Spanish · Year 9
At a theme park: demonstrative adjectives 'ese' and 'esa'
Friends: 'ser', 'estar' and demonstrative adjectives
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Your learning goal
I can use demonstrative adjectives to describe and compare experiences at a theme park.
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At a theme park: demonstrative adjectives 'ese' and 'esa': 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 demonstrative adjectives to describe and compare experiences at a theme park.
Key learning points
- The demonstrative adjective 'this' for a singular masculine noun is 'este'.
- To say 'that' for a singular masculine noun, use 'ese', e.g. 'ese recuerdo'.
- To say 'this' for a singular feminine noun, use 'esta', e.g. 'esta cola'.
- To say 'that' for a singular feminine noun, use 'esa', e.g. 'esa cola'.
- To say 'more … than', use 'más' + adjective + 'que'. To say 'less … than', use 'menos' + adjective + 'que'.
Words to know
- demonstrative adjective
- specifies a particular noun, indicating ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘these’ or ‘those’
Common mistakes
In Spanish, to compare things, we use 'más, menos' + adjective + 'de'.
In Spanish, when we're comparing two things using an adjective, we use 'más, menos' + adjective + 'que', e.g. 'más caro que', 'menos sano que'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The teacher could turn the final task into a quick-fire exercise by having students write their answers on mini whiteboards.