Year 9 - Spanish
A school trip: gustar-type verbs
Activities and opinions: pronouns, gustar-type verbs
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Unit Summary
This unit introduces plural direct object pronouns 'los' and 'las' and plural indirect object pronoun 'les'. Pupils revisit 'gustar'-type verbs, personal 'a', object-first word order, and singular and plural present tense -ar verbs. In phonics pupils revisit stress patterns.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use gustar-type verbs to share opinions about activities on a school trip.
Key Notes
- If a word has a stress on the antepenultimate syllable there will always be an accent on the stressed vowel.
- Gustar-type verbs are used with an indirect object pronoun because they show an effect on someone or something.
- Other gustar-type verbs are 'molestar', 'importar', 'interesar', 'preocupar', 'alegrar', 'gustar' and 'encantar'.
- When an infinitive is used as a subject, we refer to it as 'it', so we must use the '-a' ending for gustar-type verbs.
Vocabulary To Learn
- antepenultimate syllable: pronouncing the third-last syllable more heavily than other syllables in a word
- indirect object pronouns: replaces the person, people or thing(s) that the verb action is done to, when the action is to me, for you, to them
- gustar-type verbs: type of verb that appears after an indirect object pronoun
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- With gustar-type verbs, the verb agrees with the person who likes something.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
If a word has a stress on the antepenultimate syllable there will always be an accent on the stressed vowel. Gustar-type verbs are used with an indirect object pronoun because they show an effect on someone or something.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'antepenultimate syllable'
pronouncing the third-last syllable more heavily than other syllables in a word. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: With gustar-type verbs, the verb agrees with the person who likes something. Correction: In gustar-type verbs, the verb agrees with the subject - the thing liked, literally, the thing that pleases - not the person, e.g. 'Me gusta la música.' Since 'música' is singular, the correct form is 'gusta'.
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