KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
Productos típicos: 'ser' present, nationality adjectives
My personal world: la migración y la identidad nacional
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Your learning goal
I can use and understand the verb ‘ser’ with nationality adjectives in the context of products and exports from Latin America.
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Productos típicos: 'ser' present, nationality adjectives: 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.
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I can use and understand the verb ‘ser’ with nationality adjectives in the context of products and exports from Latin America.
Key learning points
- The present indicative forms of ‘ser’ are ‘soy’, ‘eres’, ‘es’, ‘somos’, ‘sois’ and ‘son’.
- Adjectives of nationality must agree with the nouns they describe.
- Masculine adjectives ending in -o change to -a, -os- or -as depending on the gender and number of the noun.
- Masculine adjectives ending in -és change to -esa, -eses or -esas depending on the gender and number of the noun.
Words to know
- ser
- verb meaning 'to be, being' for general traits
- adjective
- word that gives information about a noun
- adjective agreement
- when the ending of an adjective matches the noun it describes in gender and number
Common mistakes
In Spanish, all masculine adjectives end in -o.
Many masculine adjectives end in -o, but this is not always the case. For example, many masculine adjectives of nationality end in -és e.g. 'inglés' and 'francés'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- If there are several nationalities in your class, slide 10 is an opportunity for pupils to customise the list of nationality adjectives to suit their own context. The phonics of final syllable stress is explained on slide 10 and the corresponding check on slide 12 are aimed at Higher Tier students.