Starter quiz
- Match the Spanish and English.
- abril⇔April ✓
- mañana⇔morning ✓
- nunca⇔never ✓
- marzo⇔March ✓
- a veces⇔sometimes ✓
- 'El hombre coge el tren porque no tiene coche.' Choose the correct translation of 'porque'.
- because of
- because ✓
- around
- along
- why
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- Which verb has the opposite meaning to 'tomar'?
- visitar
- dar ✓
- comer
- intentar
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- 'Viajo hasta Madrid.' Which word could replace 'hasta'?
- sin
- de
- a ✓
- vivir
- con
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- Write in Spanish: 'We go'.
- 'vamos' ✓
- Translate into English: 'Gano un premio'.
- 'I win a prize.' ✓
Exit quiz
- Choose the strong vowels.
- [a] ✓
- [e] ✓
- [i]
- [o] ✓
- [u]
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- When two strong vowels appear next to each other in a word, they are pronounced ...
- 'separately' ✓
- Match the Spanish and English.
- ¿dónde?⇔where? ✓
- ¿cuándo?⇔when? ✓
- ¿quién?⇔who? ✓
- ¿cómo?⇔how? ✓
- ¿cuánto?⇔how much? ✓
- ¿cuál?⇔which? ✓
- Match the English and Spanish.
- to sing, singing⇔cantar ✓
- to take, taking (used in Spain)⇔coger ✓
- to take, taking (used in Latin America)⇔tomar ✓
- to win, winning⇔ganar ✓
- to try, trying⇔intentar ✓
- Select the present tense sentences.
- ¿Dónde cantaste?
- ¿Qué cantas? ✓
- ¿Qué vas a cantar?
- ¿Cuándo visitas Madrid? ✓
- ¿Por qué ganaste el premio?
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- Translate into Spanish: 'Where did you buy the shirt?'
- '¿Dónde compraste la camisa?' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- When the SSC sounds [a], [e] and [o] appear together, they are pronounced separately.
- The 1st person singular preterite of -ar verbs ends in -é and 2nd person singular preterite in -aste.
- The 2nd person singular present of -ar verbs ends in -as.
- Question words are used to ask for specific information, e.g. '¿dónde?, '¿cómo?'.
Common misconception
Two vowels together are always read as one vowel.
In Spanish, when two strong vowels [a], [e] or [i] appear next to each other they are pronounced separately. This is why we call them 'strong' vowels.
Keywords
Strong vowels - the letters [a], [e] and [o]
Question words - words used to ask for specific information in a question, e.g. 'what', 'where', 'when'
Present - a verb tense to describe routine events in the present, e.g. 'I do'
Preterite - a verb tense to describe completed events in the past, e.g. 'I did'
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