KS2 · Spanish · Year 5
What does Quique have? 'Tengo' and 'tiene'
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 say what I have and someone else has using 'tengo' and 'tiene'.
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I can say what I have and someone else has using 'tengo' and 'tiene'.
Key learning points
- In Spanish, many adjectives follow the noun. They agree with the number and gender of the noun.
- Adjectives ending in -e stay the same for singular masculine and feminine nouns.
- The verb 'tener' means 'to have, having'. It is an irregular verb.
- To say 'I have', use 'tengo'. To say 'she, he, it is', use 'tiene'.
Words to know
- tener
- verb meaning 'to have, having'
- tengo
- verb 'I have', part of the verb 'tener'
- tiene
- verb 'she, he, it has', part of the verb 'tener'
Common mistakes
Adjectives in Spanish appear before the noun as they do in English.
In Spanish, many adjectives appear after the noun and agree with the number and gender of the noun they describe.
For parents, carers and teachers
- For the final speaking task, pupils could create images of their own room, or add objects of their own, to practise using other familiar language in context.