Spring 2 Blog
іBienvenidos de nuevo a la escuela! Welcome back to school!
Year 5
Las Asignaturas - School Subjects
This half term we guessed that our new topic was school subjects as many of them are cognates or near cognates (the same or almost the same as English words). We sorted them into masculine, feminine and plural nouns.
Then we learnt some opinion phrases to express our opinions about different subjects. We learnt some actions to help us remember them.
Me gusta/me gustan... I like...
We practised saying each phrase with different school subjects and discovered that some phrases change slightly if they describe a plural subject like maths or science.
Me gusta el deporte. I like sport.
Me gustan las matemáticas. I like maths.
No me gusta/gustan... I don't like...
No me gusta la historia. I don't like history.
No me gustan las ciencias. I don't like science.
Me encanta/me encantan... I love...
Me encanta la geografía. I love geography.
Me encantan las ciencias. I love science.
Prefiero... I prefer...
Prefiero la religión. I prefer religion.
Odio... I hate...
Odio el inglés. I hate English.
We wrote different combinations of preferences
We did a listening A or B quiz, identifying which preference was being read out.
We learnt how to describe school subjects with 4 different adjectives, and again we did the actions.
La geografía es divertida. Geography is fun.
El deporte es divertido. Sport is fun.
El español es aburrido. Spanish is boring. (I hope not!)
El inglés es interesante. English is interesting.
Las matemáticas son divertidas. Maths is fun.
Las ciencias son interesantes. Science is interesting.
You have worked so hard at home today Year 5. іEstupendo! You have built some super ‘because’ sentences, putting all the pieces we have worked on during the last few weeks together.
No me gustan las matemáticas porque son aburridas. I don’t like maths because its boring.
Year 6
Las Profesiones - Professions
We have been learning how to say which jobs we would like to do in Spanish. We sorted the professions into groups according to their spellings, and found that some nouns have endings that change, to match the gender of the person they describe.
We made some sentences up about what we want to be when we grow up to practise the different noun endings.
Quiero ser cocinero. I want to be a chef (male).
Quiero ser cocinera. I want to be a chef (female).
Quiero ser médico. I want to be a doctor (male).
Quiero ser médica. I want to be a doctor (female).
Quiero ser bombera/bombero. I want to be a firefighter.
Quiero ser pescadora. I want to be a fisherwoman.
Quiero ser pescador. I want to be a fisherman.
Quiero ser profesor/profesora. I want to be a teacher.
Quiero ser taxista. I want to be a taxi driver.
Quiero ser taxista. I want to be a taxi driver.
Quiero ser futbolista. I want to be a footballer.
Quiero ser futbolista. I want to be a footballer.
Quiero ser policía. I want to be a police officer.
Quiero ser policía. I want to be a police officer.
Describing our personal qualities with adjectives
We looked at different qualities needed to do different jobs. We built some sentences using porque... (because...).
Parts of a house
Today we found the names of the rooms in the house in the bilingual dictionary.
¿Dónde está Wally?
Wally está en el baño. (Wally is in the bathroom.)
Wally está en el comedor. (Wally is in the dining room.)
Wally está en la cocina. (Wally is in the kitchen.)
Then we looked for furniture names.
We learnt some prepositions to describe in more detail where Wally was.
We read an Easter Egg Hunt story in Spanish and listened out for the prepositions. Then we sequenced the story.
