Starter quiz
- Respond to this greeting in Spanish: 'Hello!'
- 'hola' ✓
- Which of these is the Spanish word for 'absent'?
- ausente ✓
- presente
- aquí
- allí
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- Which of these sentences might you use to answer the register in class?
- Estoy presente. ✓
- Estoy aquí. ✓
- Está ausente. ✓
- Estoy ausente.
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- Match these Spanish words to their English meanings.
- cama⇔bed ✓
- casa⇔house ✓
- hola⇔hello ✓
- dos⇔two ✓
- alto⇔tall ✓
- con⇔with ✓
- Which of these words include both the [a] and the [o] sounds?
- hola ✓
- casa
- dos
- alto ✓
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Exit quiz
- Which of the following words include the [u] sound?
- universo ✓
- Perú ✓
- Rubén ✓
- hola
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- Match these Spanish greetings to their English translations.
- buenos días⇔good morning ✓
- buenas tardes⇔good afternoon ✓
- adiós⇔goodbye ✓
- hola⇔hello ✓
- Which of these means 'you are' in Spanish?
- estoy
- estás ✓
- está
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- To change a statement into a question, you raise your ______ at the end.
- 'voice' ✓
- Which of these means 'Are you in Spain?' in Spanish?
- Estás en España.
- ¿Estás en España? ✓
- Estoy en España.
- ¿Estoy en España?
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- Change the following statement into a question: 'Estás presente.'
- '¿Estás presente?' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The sound-symbol correspondence [u] sounds like the ‘u’ in the Spanish word ‘universo’.
- ‘Estás’ means 'you are' when talking about location.
- A statement becomes a 'yes/no' question by raising your tone of voice at the end.
Common misconception
You have to swap words around to make yes/no questions in Spanish.
'You are' does not swap around to 'Are you ...?' in Spanish because 'you are' is one word, 'estás'. Spanish yes/no questions can be made simply by raising the tone of voice at the end of any statement.
Keywords
[u] - pronounced as in 'universo'
Estás - part of the verb 'estar' - 'to be, being', meaning 'you are'
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