KS2 · Spanish · Year 5
What do you have? Questions with 'tengo' and 'tienes'
What I and others have: singular and plural 'tener'
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can ask and answer questions about what I and others have using 'tengo' and 'tienes'.
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What do you have? Questions with 'tengo' and 'tienes': 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.
Original teaching resources
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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can ask and answer questions about what I and others have using 'tengo' and 'tienes'.
Key learning points
- You can practise vowel sounds and the sound-spelling correspondences [ca], [co], [cu] by reading a poem aloud.
- To talk about things in the plural, Spanish often adds 's' to the end of the noun.
- To say 'some' before a masculine plural noun, we use 'unos'; to say 'some' before a feminine plural noun, we use 'unas'.
- To turn a statement into a question, you raise your voice at the end.
- To say, 'I have' or 'do I have' use 'tengo'; to say 'you have' or 'do you have', use tienes.
Words to know
- unos
- the word for 'some' before masculine plural nouns
- unas
- the word for 'some' before feminine plural nouns
- tengo
- I have or do I have; part of the verb ‘tener’ meaning to have, having
- tienes
- you have or do you have; part of the verb ‘tener’ meaning to have, having meaning
Common mistakes
There is one word for 'some' for both masculine and feminine nouns.
In Spanish, there are two words for some. For masculine plural nouns, use 'unos'. For feminine plural nouns, use 'unas'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The speaking activity, task C2, can be repeated with pupils creating their own cards with different objects to provide additional speaking practice and practice of pluralising nouns and using 'unas' and 'unos' accurately.