Starter quiz
- Match this holiday vocabulary.
- agosto⇔August ✓
- julio⇔July ✓
- mar⇔sea ✓
- vacaciones⇔holidays ✓
- viajar⇔to travel, traveling ✓
- In which word is the 'h' pronounced?
- hola
- hablar
- helado
- hospital
- none of the above ✓
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- Which is not a type of text?
- poema
- artículo
- novela
- leer ✓
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- Which one is better?
- To try to memorise vocabulary once, for a very long time.
- To practise vocabulary regularly, even if for a short time. ✓
- To never practise vocabulary and let it come naturally when learning.
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- Match these adverbs:
- cada⇔each ✓
- completamente⇔completely ✓
- durante⇔during ✓
- normalmente⇔usually ✓
- How do you say 'mountain' in Spanish?
- 'montaña' ✓
Exit quiz
- Which of these words has an 'h'?
- _ablar ✓
- _entre
- _elado ✓
- _arena
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- Match these words:
- la arena⇔sand ✓
- el cielo⇔sky ✓
- el sol⇔sun ✓
- el verano⇔summer ✓
- Place these words in this order: 1. dad, 2. walk, 3. hair, 4. beach
- 1⇔Papá
- 2⇔paseo
- 3⇔pelo
- 4⇔playa
- How do you say 'watermelon' in Spanish.
- 'sandía' ✓
- Match these words with and without 'h':
- hola⇔hello ✓
- ola⇔wave ✓
- hay⇔there is/are ✓
- ¡ay!⇔Auch! ✓
- It is better not to get stuck on an unfamiliar word, but to keep reading for the general meaning and ...
- 'context' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- To pronounce words starting with [h] we ignore it and pronounce the vowel that follows.
- To identify the genre of a text focus on its key features. For example, rhyme, rhythm and verses suggest a poem.
- Adjectives mainly follow Spanish nouns and agree with them for gender and number.
- The surrounding words and grammar you know, and recognition of cognates, help you to work out unfamiliar word meanings.
Common misconception
There are no strategies I can use to understand words in a text; I either know them or I don't.
I can use several strategies to help me understand a text: I can use the surrounding words that I do know, I can use my knowledge of patterns, e.g. for adjectives, and I can use cognates.
Keywords
[h] - it is not pronounced in Spanish, as in 'hablar'
Genre - a type of something, e.g. text, music, film, or book
Adjective - word that gives information about a noun
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