KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
El mundo natural: suffix -ito/a, suffix -ísimo/a
Lifestyle and wellbeing: los desafíos del mundo actual
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Your learning goal
I can use demonstrative adjectives and the suffixes -ito and -ísimo to describe the natural world in Spanish.
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I can use demonstrative adjectives and the suffixes -ito and -ísimo to describe the natural world in Spanish.
Key learning points
- 'Este' and 'esta' mean 'this' before a singular or uncountable noun. 'Este' is masculine and 'esta' is feminine.
- 'Estos' and 'estas' mean 'these' before a plural noun. 'Estos' is masculine and 'estas' is feminine.
- The suffixes -ísimo and -ísima mean 'very' and appear at the end of an adjective.
- The suffixes -ito and -ita mean 'little' and appear at the end of a noun.
Words to know
- demonstrative adjective
- a type of adjective used to signal a specific person, place or thing
- -ito, -ita
- Spanish suffix added to nouns to mean ‘little’
- -ísimo, -ísima
- Spanish suffix added to adjectives to mean ‘very’
Common mistakes
The suffix -ito is added to the end of any noun to give the meaning 'small'.
The final letter is removed from nouns ending in ‘a’ or ‘o’ before adding -ito or -ita.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Task D2 could either be done as a writing or as a speaking activity. If done as a writing, pupils could also read aloud their sentences to each other, with the listening pupils orally translating each sentence.