KS3 · Spanish · Year 7
Conversations: 'estar', 'ser', 'tener' singular persons
Belongings: 'tener' and articles 'un' and 'una'
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Your learning goal
I can ask and answer questions using singular 'estar', 'ser' and 'tener' about things that I or someone else has.
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I can ask and answer questions using singular 'estar', 'ser' and 'tener' about things that I or someone else has.
Key learning points
- Raise your voice at the end of a statement to ask a yes/no question with 'tener'. ‘¿Tienes …?’ is ‘Do you have?'.
- 'Qué' means 'what'; to ask ‘What do you have?’ use ‘¿Qué tienes?’.
- 'Unas' is 'some' for plural feminine nouns; 'unos' is ‘some’ for plural masculine nouns.
- Conversations involve careful listening and knowing vocabulary securely, especially key verbs 'estar', 'ser', 'tener'.
Words to know
- tener
- to have, having
- qué
- Spanish question word 'what'
- unas
- 'some' for plural feminine nouns
- unos
- 'some' for plural masculine nouns
Common mistakes
Spanish needs a word for 'do' in questions, e.g. 'Do you have?' and 'What do you have?'.
Spanish questions are easy to form. Yes/no questions have the same words as statements; to make a question you raise the pitch of your voice. Information questions just add a question word, e.g. 'Qué ... ?' in front of the verb.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The simplicity of Spanish questions can become clearer for pupils if they imagine a Spanish person trying to learn to ask English questions and having to add in 'do' or 'does', when there is no meaning 'do' attached to it. How would 'Do you do sport?' translate for a Spanish learner of English?