Study Hub

Study Guides

This pupil-friendly study guide includes a unit summary, clear notes, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.

Back to Study HubBrowse Year 4 Spanish Guides

Year 4 - Spanish

Do you hate mornings? Opinion verbs 'I', 'you', 'she, he'

Likes and dislikes: singular opinion verbs

Unit Summary

In this unit, pupils use singular persons of new verbs 'amar' to love and 'odiar' to hate to express opinions. They use reference resources to personalise their responses, researching new nouns. Pupils also develop their phonics knowledge, practising two new sounds, r and rr.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to ask and answer questions about your and others' opinions.

Key Notes

  • Testing yourself on vocabulary helps you remember words and identify which words need more practice.
  • In Spanish, the definite article (the word for the), changes according to gender and number: el, la, los and las.
  • The opinion verbs 'amar' and 'odiar' can be used to say what you and others like or dislike.
  • The endings for singular persons are -o for 'I', -as for 'you' and -a for 'she, he, it'.
  • Subject pronouns (yo, tú, él and ella) are useful for comparing one person with another.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • definite article: word for 'the', which changes according to gender and number
  • opinion verb: verb that shows what someone thinks, feels or believes about something

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • We use opinion verbs without the definite article in Spanish as in English, e.g. I love Spanish.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.

Testing yourself on vocabulary helps you remember words and identify which words need more practice. In Spanish, the definite article (the word for the), changes according to gender and number: el, la, los and las.

2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'definite article'

word for 'the', which changes according to gender and number. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.

3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.

Mistake: We use opinion verbs without the definite article in Spanish as in English, e.g. I love Spanish. Correction: In Spanish, opinion verbs always use the definite article before nouns, e.g. Amo el español.

More Lessons In This Unit

Browse all guides in the Year 4 Spanish guide library.