Click HERE and you will have access to a couple of activities to practice with sentence structure and verbs of routine. Click on SOLUTIONS to check once you try the exercises.… CONTINUE READING
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Gente nueva
In this little movie try to spot the missing graphic accents in some of the words, read out the dialogue, look up for any words you do not understand, and post any questions regarding the grammar in the comments’ section of this post.… CONTINUE READING
Giving directions
HERE you will find a map, a starting point (we are facing north), and a number of examples of how simple can be to give some directions in Spanish!
Once you have studied the examples, and practiced the pronunciation HERE, you can give a go at following some directions to locate the missing streets in your map that are listed at the bottom of the page.… CONTINUE READING
Qué or Cuál
Qué or Cuál, an opportunity to test yourself again… (If you do not quite remember the difference check THIS post. You will then be well equipped to tackle the activity).… CONTINUE READING
HAY, SER, ESTAR
Hay, ser and estar are very important verbs in Spanish. They are also a bit peculiar, and you have to learn why.
We use HAY (the infinitive form is HABER), to refer to the existence or no-existence of people, animals, places, objects… We use it always in the third person singular, even when a plural word follows:
- There isn’t any milk in the fridge = No hay leche en la nevera.
CUÁL/CUÁLES and QUÉ
In order to help you to decide between ¿QUÉ? and ¿CUÁL? or ¿CUÁLES? I am giving you some criteria you can use to guide your choice:
¿QUÉ?
1. If you are asking for information, in the sense of a definition or the meaning of something:
- What is the St.
Many pictures, many sentences
You may have already read the post “One picture, many sentences”, which would be good because then you can take that suggestion further with the following pictures:
1. Pedro 2.… CONTINUE READING
One picture, many sentences
A good way to test yourselves for different tenses and types of verbs that you have been learning recently is this:
1. chose a picture like the one in this article.… CONTINUE READING
CONJUGATED VERB +(A LINKING WORD/OR NOT)+ INFINITIVE
I have recently pointed at a number of structures in Spanish that involve a conjugated verb, which may or not have a linking word, and that then are followed by an infinitive.… CONTINUE READING
