KS3 · Spanish · Year 8
Relationships and routines: reflexive 'te'
Relationships and daily life: personal 'a', pronouns
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Your learning goal
I can use verbs with reflexive pronouns 'me' and 'te' to describe my daily routine and ask questions about yours.
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I can use verbs with reflexive pronouns 'me' and 'te' to describe my daily routine and ask questions about yours.
Key learning points
- The SSC [ge] is pronounced as in ‘gente’ and [gi] as in ‘imaginar’.
- When the subject and object of a verb are the same, in Spanish we use reflexive pronouns before the verb e.g. 'Me lavo.'
- To say you do something to or for yourself, we use 'te' before the verb in Spanish e.g. 'Te pones un vestido.'
- In English we sometimes leave out reflexive pronouns, but we never do in Spanish.
- 'Me' and 'te' look and sound similar to the possessive adjectives 'mi' and 'tu', but their meanings are different.
Words to know
- [ge]
- sound-symbol correspondence pronounced as in 'gente', meaning 'people'
- [gi]
- sound-symbol correspondence pronounced as in 'imaginar', meaning 'to imagine, imagining'
- reflexive pronoun
- pronoun used to indicate doing something to or for yourself, words like 'myself' and 'yourself'
- me
- 'myself' in Spanish
- te
- 'yourself' in Spanish
Common mistakes
'Me' and 'te' mean 'my' and 'your' in Spanish.
'Me' and 'te' are reflexive pronouns in Spanish and mean 'myself' and 'yourself' respectively. 'Mi' and 'tu' are the possessive adjectives 'my' and 'your' in Spanish.
For parents, carers and teachers
- When using reflexive pronouns in Spanish, students can sometimes forget that the verb ending still has to change according to the subject of the verb. The dialogue practise in this lesson is useful for emphasising this point.