KS3 · Spanish · Year 9

Health: 'vuestro' and 'vuestra'

Sport and healthy living: present continuous, 'vuestro/a'

Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.

IllumED Slides

Download lesson + answers ↓

IllumED · 1/11

Your learning goal

I can use the possessive adjectives ‘tu’ and ‘vuestro’ and ‘vuestra’ in the context of health.

1 of 11

Health: 'vuestro' and 'vuestra': 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.

Original teaching resources

The original illustrated PowerPoint is available as well as the IllumED text slides. It retains the publisher’s design and credits.

Download original PowerPoint ↓

What you’ll learn

I can use the possessive adjectives ‘tu’ and ‘vuestro’ and ‘vuestra’ in the context of health.

Key learning points

To mean ‘your’ for one person before a singular noun, use ‘tu’.
To mean ‘your’ for more than one person before a masculine singular noun, use ‘vuestro’.
To mean ‘your’ for more than one person before a feminine singular noun, use ‘vuestra’.
To form 2nd person singular -ar verbs in the present tense, use the verb ending -as.
To form 2nd person plural -ar verbs in the present tense, use the verb ending -áis.

Words to know

possessive adjective: word that goes before a noun to show ownership or belonging e.g. ‘your’
tu: 'your’ for one person before a singular noun
vuestro: 'your’ for more than one person before a masculine singular noun
vuestra: ‘your’ for more than one person before a feminine singular noun

Common mistakes

As in English, there is one way of saying 'your' in Spanish.

Saying 'your' in Spanish depends on the number of people you are speaking to and the following noun. To mean ‘your’ for one person before a singular noun, use ‘tu’, and for more than one person, use 'vuestro' or 'vuestra'.

For parents, carers and teachers

If greater scaffolding is required for Task C2, you could play the audio twice to allow students to focus on one thing at once. The first time round students would select the correct word and the second time they would write the action.