Year 5

Summer 1

24.4.25

This week, we have been learning about the words a and the in Spanish. We practised using the fruit vocabulary that we already know.

We also learnt the names of some common vegetables, and practised them by playing Quiz Quiz Trade.

Then we practised conversations at the market, asking to buy fruit and vegetables politely.

Spring 2

3.4.25

This week, we have been building sentences about the clothes we wear in different weather conditions. We used all the phrases we have learnt this half term.

27.3.25

Today we started to learn the names of clothes, and practised using the different words used in Spanish for a and the.

6.3.25

This week, we have been learning how to say what the weather is like in Spanish.

27.2.25 Mardi Gras Celebrations

This week, we looked at a Spanish text all about Mardi Gras. We looked for cognates (words similar to English ones) and used what we already know about the carnival to help us to understand the gist of the text.

Spring 1

13.2.25

Today, we have been practising how to ask politely for an entrance ticket for different places.

6.2.25

Today we looked at the whole pattern (paradigm) of the verb to go in Spanish, and practised making different sentences, using the places in the city that we know.

30.1.25

Where are you going? I'm going to...

This week, we learnt a new question and answer.

For places with masculine names, the contraction al is used.

We practised the question and answer by playing Quiz Quiz Trade.

24.1.25

This week we have been learning about the two different words for 'this' in Spanish, and when to use each one.

To practise, we used the word 'this' with the places in the city we have been learning.

16.1.26

Today we have been learning how to describe position with prepositions in Spanish. We used a simple plan of the town to help us.

We already know how to say right and left, so we learnt how to say next to and opposite.

To finish, we looked at the spelling patterns found in some of the places we have learnt to say.

9.1.25

Happy New Year

Today we learned about a very strange tradition that takes place on New Year's Eve.

Cognates in the City

This week, we have started to learn the names of popular places to go and visit in the city. First of all we listened to the vocabulary to see if we could deduce its meaning. Then we looked at the words written down and discovered that a lot of the words are the same or similar to English words. We call these words cognates.

Then we used the bilingual dictionary to find the names of other places in the city.

Autumn 2

School Subjects

12.12.24

Today, we wrote sentences giving reasons for our school subject preferences. We used the chart to help us and joined our sentences with the word because. (porque)

5.12.24

Today, we learned how to express our preferences of certain school subjects.

We discovered that some of the phrases can change slightly, depending on whether they are describing a singular or plural subject.

I like Sport I like Sciences

Finally, we learnt some adjectives to describe each subject. Once again, the endings of the adjectives can change in order to match the school subject (noun) it is describing.

3.12.24

This half term, we have been learning about school subjects in Spanish. They are easy to remember as a lot of them are cognates, which means that the Spanish names are very similar to the English names. We separated them into 3 groups.

We practised asking each other the question in a game of Quiz Quiz Trade.

Then we practised saying when we learn each subject.

14.11.24

Today, we have been learning to say a jungle rhyme in Spanish, using all the animals and different adjectives to describe them.

7.11.24

This week, we used adjectives and colours to describe the jungle animals. Some of the adjectives have different endings when describing feminine or masculine animals.