KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
Mis últimas vacaciones: prenominal adjectives, preterite questions
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Your learning goal
I can use prenominal adjectives and preterite questions to ask and answer about past holidays in Spanish.
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I can use prenominal adjectives and preterite questions to ask and answer about past holidays in Spanish.
Key learning points
- In questions, to say 'a', 'an' or ‘any’ before masc. sing. nouns use ‘algún’ and 'algunos' before masc. pl. nouns.
- In questions, to say 'a', 'an' or ‘any’ before fem. sing. nouns use ‘alguna’ and 'algunas' before fem. pl nouns.
- Some adjectives can go before the noun. These are called 'prenominal adjectives'.
- Prenominal adjectives 'primero', 'tercero', 'bueno', 'malo' and 'alguno' come before the noun and lose the -o ending.
- Verbs ending in '-car', 'gar' or '-zar' have a spelling change in 1st person singular in the preterite.
Words to know
- preterite
- a tense used for events completed in the past
- prenominal adjective
- an adjective that appears before a noun
- algún
- a word meaning 'a', 'an' or 'any' in questions
- alguna
- a word meaning 'a', 'an' or 'any' in questions
Common mistakes
Adjectives in Spanish only ever appear after the noun.
Most adjectives in Spanish appear after the noun. However, some are used before it. These are called prenominal adjectives.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Slides 12-15 and 18-19 focus on a Higher-tier language feature. Teachers may wish to use or omit these slides depending on the group.