KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
Las peñas (los clubs) de los pueblos: 'estar' + present participle
Travel and tourism: la cultura popular y tradicional
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Your learning goal
I can use plural persons of estar to talk about where we and others are and what we and others do in the context of ‘las peñas’, a Spanish custom.
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I can use plural persons of estar to talk about where we and others are and what we and others do in the context of ‘las peñas’, a Spanish custom.
Key learning points
- Words with stress on the last syllable have a written accent if the last letter is -n, -s or a vowel.
- 'Estar' in present tense, plural persons has the forms 'estamos', 'estáis' and 'están'.
- Estar + present participle of -ar & -er / -ir (-ando, -iendo) is used to talk about ongoing events.
- Peñas are associations of people who gather together to celebrate local costumes and traditions.
- When describing a photo include description of: people, action, location and mood.
Words to know
- estamos
- 1st person plural of the verb ‘to be, being’ used for location, states and moods
- estáis
- 2nd person plural of the verb ‘to be, being’ used for location, states and moods
- están
- 3rd person plural of the verb ‘to be, being’ used for location, states and moods
- present participle
- verb form that forms the present continuous, together with the auxiliary verb 'estar'
- present continuous
- describes events happening right now: 'I am doing'
Common mistakes
You are (singular) and you are (plural) are translated the same in Spanish - 'estás'.
To say ‘you are’ (singular), we say 'estás'; To say ‘you are’ (plural), we say 'estáis'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The last-syllable stress rule is aimed at Higher students and there is a choice of tasks in the second learning cycle to reflect this. Task B1 Option 1 is F/H whereas task B1 Option 2 and the appropriate check tests Higher-only phonological knowledge: application of the last-syllable stress rule.