KS3 · Spanish · Year 9
Weekend activities: pronouns 'me', 'te', 'le', 'se' and 'les'
Weekends: 'ser', 'estar', 'ir' and 'hacer'
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Your learning goal
I can distinguish between actions done to others and to oneself using the reflexive pronoun 'se', and I can use indirect object pronouns to talk about weekend activities.
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I can distinguish between actions done to others and to oneself using the reflexive pronoun 'se', and I can use indirect object pronouns to talk about weekend activities.
Key learning points
- When the 'doer' (subject) and 'receiver' (object) of an action are the same person we use a reflexive pronoun.
- To mean 'herself' or 'himself' in Spanish, use 'se' before a verb.
- Indirect object pronouns (e.g. 'him', 'them') indicate the person or thing that is indirectly affected by the verb.
- If the person affected by the action is 'me', use 'me'; if the person affected by the action is 'you', use 'te'.
- To refer to one person or thing indirectly affected by an action use 'le', for more than one person or thing use 'les'.
Words to know
- se
- reflexive pronoun 'himself', 'herself' or 'itself'
- reflexive pronoun
- used to indicate doing something to yourself, words like 'myself' and 'yourself'
- indirect object pronoun (IOP)
- replaces the person, people or thing(s) that the verb action is done to, when the action is to me, for you, to them
Common mistakes
The indirect object pronoun 'le' changes to 'la' to match the gender of the person receiving the action.
'Le' means 'to him', 'to her' or 'to it' regardless of the person receiving the action, e.g. 'le doy un regalo a Lucía' or 'le doy un regalo a Daniel'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- This lesson receptively revisits two different types of pronouns that pupils have previously learned. Teachers will know for their classes if they want to focus instead on just one of these, and add in a productive practice task for it.