KS3 · Spanish · Year 7
Family: 'tener' 3rd person singular and plural
What we have: 'tener' plural persons, plural adjectives
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Your learning goal
I can speak about extended family using I have, we have, they have and adjective agreement.
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I can speak about extended family using I have, we have, they have and adjective agreement.
Key learning points
- To speak about what 'they have', 'tienen' is used.
- Adjectives in Spanish always have to agree with the noun in grammatical gender and number.
Words to know
- adjective agreement
- when the ending of an adjective matches the noun it describes in gender and number
- tienen
- part of verb ‘tener’ and means ‘they have’
- es
- part of verb ‘ser’ and means 'she, he, it is' (trait)
- son
- part of verb ‘ser’ and means 'they are' (trait)
Common mistakes
The adjective needs to agree with the verb.
This is only the case with attribute verbs like 'ser' or 'estar' because the adjective is still referring to an implicit noun (person, thing).
For parents, carers and teachers
- This lesson is deliberately not focused on pupils' own families. However, teachers may wish, where appropriate to their classes, invite pupils to develop personal responses about their own extended family, or other people that are important in their lives.