¿Qué te gustaría comer? – What would you like to eat?

Hola Primary Two.

¿Qué tal? ¡Tengo hambre! (I am hungry!)

This week’s Spanish challenge is to find out the words for different foods and to say what you would like to eat, as if you were in a Spanish restaurant.

¿Qué te gustaría comer? – What would you like to eat?

¿Qué te gustaría beber? – What would you like to drink?

Me gustaría… – I would like …

Un sándwich – a sandwich

Una ensalada – a salad

Una pizza – a pizza

Una hamburguesa – a hamburger

Salchichas – sausages

Pasta – pasta

Fruta – fruit

Patatas fritas – crisps

Papas fritas – chips

Un pastel – a cake

Una galleta – a biscuit

Un helado – an ice cream

Leche – milk

Jugo – juice

Agua – water

Desayuno – breakfast

Almuerzo – lunch

Cena – dinner

*Ms F’s Top Tip* – Remember j in Spanish makes a sound like ch asin the Scottish word loch. So jugo sounds like choo-go. When you see ll in Spanish, it is actually a special letter. The sound it makes is y, like in ‘you’, so galleta sounds like ga-ye-ta. You may recognise it from me llamo (my name is) and amarillo (yellow) and llueve (rain). Remember that h is always silent in Spanish, so helado sounds like el-ad-o.

Ideas to help you practise

• See if you can say what you are having for dinner or lunch today in Spanish.
• Take out some items from your cupboards and practise saying the Spanish when someone in your house picks a certain item.
• Practise your Spanish along with Mrs McCracken’s sign-a-long for picnic foods – this was a few weeks ago but you can still find it on the blog.
• Make a menu using these Spanish words for food. You could write the English next to it or draw a picture of the food to help you remember.

¡Que te diviertas! 

Ms Ferguson

Here are some fun songs to help you practise and learn some other words for different types of foods.

¡Me gustan los deportes! – I like sports!

Hola Primary Two.

¿Qué tal? ¡Estoy feliz porque me gustan los deportes! (I am happy because I like sports.)

This week’s Spanish challenge is to find out the words for sports and hobbies, and how to give an opinion.

Some of the different activities have a different word for ‘the’ at the beginning. Some start with el and some start with la. Why do you think that is? (Answer: under the Spanish words.)

¿Te gusta…? – Do you like…?

Me gusta… – I like…

No me gusta… – I do not like…

El fútbol – football

El tenis – tennis

La gimnasia – gymnastics

El footing – running / correr – to run

El rugby – rugby

El ciclismo – cycling

La natación – swimming / nadar – to swim

El bailar – dancing / bailar – to dance

El canto – singing / cantar – to sing

La pintura – painting / pintar – to paint

El dibujo – drawing / dibujar – to draw

La costura – sewing / coser – to sew

La leer – reading / leer – to read

*Ms F’s Top Tip* – Remember j in Spanish makes a sound like ch asin the Scottish word loch. So dibujo sounds like di-boo-cho. In Spanish the letter c can make a hard sound like ‘cuatro’ if it comes before a, o or u. But if c comes before e or i, it makes a soft ‘ss’ sound. So ciclismo sounds like sea-clis-mo.

Answer: The reason why some animals have different versions of saying the in Spanish is that some are male words, they start with el, and others are female words, starting with la. Well done if you worked that out!

You may have noticed I used gustan instead of gusta when talking about sports. That is because it is more than one thing I am talking about. So you would say ‘Me gustan los colores’, if you wanted to say I like colours.

Ideas to help you practise

• Play a game of charades where a sport or hobby is acted out and you have to guess it in Spanish.
• Gather objects around the house related to the sports and hobbies (such as a tennis ball, pencil, swimming costume). Ask a parent or sibling to hold up an item, then you have say the correct Spanish word.
• Practise your Spanish along with Mrs McCracken’s sign-a-long sport and hobbies.
• If you have drawn a picture of children in the playground doing a sport or hobby, as Ms McCracken suggested in her Sign-a-long blog, label this with the Spanish words for each hobby.

¡Que te diviertas! 

Ms Ferguson

Here are some fun videos to help you practise and learn some other words for sports and actions.

¡Soy yo! – It’s me!

Hola Primary Two.

¿Qué tal? ¡Estoy feliz porque hoy hace sol! (I’m happy because it is sunny today!)

This week will be all about you in Spanish – how to ask and answer questions like what is your name, age and where do you live.

¿Cómo te llamas? – What is your name?

Me llamo… – My name is …

Me llamo Toby. – My Name is Toby.

¿Y tú? – And you? 

¿Tienes cuantos años? – How old are you?

Tengo ….. años – I am …. years old.

Tengo ocho años – I am eight years old.

¿Cuando es tu cumpleaños? – When is your birthday?

Mi cumpleaños es ….. – My birthday is

Mi cumpleaños es veintitrés de mayo. – My birthday is the 23rd of May.

¿Dónde vives? – Where do you live?

Vivo en Edimburgo / escocia – I live in Edinburgh / Scotland.

*Ms F’s Top Tip* – When you see ll in Spanish, it is actually a special letter. The sound it makes is y, like in ‘you’, so estrella sounds like es-tray-ya. You may recognise it from me llamo (my name is) and amarillo (yellow) and llueve (rain). In Spanish the letter ñ is also a special letter, where you make a nyu sound, so año sounds like an-yo. You might remember seeing it in mañana (tomorrow) or araña (spider).

So, a simple conversation might sound like: 

Maria: ¡Hola! ¿Cómo te llamas? 

Tomás: ¡Hola! Me llamo Tomás. ¿Y Tú? 

Maria: Me llamo Maria.

Tomas: ¿Tienes cuantos años?  

Maria: Tengo ocho años. ¿Y tú? 

Tomás: Tengo ocho años. 

Maria: ¿Dónde vives? Etc.  

Ideas to help you practise

• Create your own all about me flashcards – one set with the Spanish words and another set with a picture or photo of the answer. You can then use these to play a game of memory, match pairs, or create your own game.
• Have a conversation with a parent or sibling. See if you can teach them how to say the Spanish words.
• Write out these questions and your answers – put them up in your house so you can practise saying these.
• Make an ‘all about me’ poster with a picture of you in the middle and the questions (with answers) around the outside.
• Make a sock puppet and use it to practise asking and answering questions in Spanish.

¡Que te diviertas! 

Ms Ferguson

Here are some fun songs to help you practise.

A la Orilla del Mar – On the Seashore

Hola Primary Two.

¿Qué tal? ¡Estoy feliz porque me gusta la playa! (I’m happy because I like the beach.)

This week’s Spanish challenge is to find out the names for some things that live on the seashore.

Some of the animals have a different word for ‘the’ at the beginning. Some start with el and some start with la. Why do you think that is? (Answer: under the Spanish words.)

¿Que vive a la orilla del mar? – What lives at the seashore?

El cangrejo – crab

La gaviota – seagull

La foca – seal

El alga marina – seaweed

El caballo de mar – seahorse

La ballena – whale

El pulpo – octopus

El delfín – Dolphin

La anémona de mar – sea anemone

El erizo de mar – sea urchin

La estrella de mar – starfish

La concha – Shell

El percebe – barnacle

El frailecillo – puffin

La medusa – jellyfish

*Ms F’s Top Tip* – Remember j in Spanish makes a sound like ch asin the Scottish word loch. So cangrejo sounds like can-grey-cho. When you see ll in Spanish, it is actually a special letter. The sound it makes is y, like in ‘you’, so estrella sounds like es-tray-ya. You may recognise it from me llamo (my name is) and amarillo (yellow) and llueve (rain). In Spanish the letter c can make a hard sound like ‘cuatro’ if it comes before a, o or u. But if c comes before e or i, it makes a soft ‘ss’ sound. So frailecillo sounds like fray-le-sea–yo.

Answer: The reason why some animals have different versions of saying the in Spanish is that some are male words and others are female words. Well done if you worked that out!

For male animals you would use el for ‘the’ or un for ‘a’. For female animals you would use la for ‘the’ and una for ‘a’.

Most of the animals you just add s to the end to say there is more than one (plural). The only different one is:

Dolphins – delfines

Ideas to help you practise

• Create your own seashore flashcards – one set with the Spanish words and another set with a picture or photo of something that lives at the seashore. You can then use these to play a game of memory, match pairs, or create your own game.
• Practise your Spanish along with Mrs McCracken’s sign-a-long animals – remember we learned the word for fish last week.
• Play Pictionary, where one player has to draw something from the seashore and the other says the answer in Spanish.
• Pick something that lives at the seashore and act like it, you could use sounds or actions. The other player has to guess in Spanish.
• Draw a picture of the seashore and label what lives there in Spanish.

¡Que te diviertas! 

Ms Ferguson

Here are some fun videos to help you practise and learn some other words for animals, including wild animals:

¿Tienes mascotas? – Do you have pets?

Hola Primary Two.

¿Qué tal? ¡Estoy feliz porque me gusta animales! (I’m happy because I like animals.)

This week’s Spanish challenge is to find out how to say I have pets and name some animals.

Some of the animals have two different ways of saying the animal. One that ends in o and one that ends in a. Why do you think that is? (Answer: under the Spanish words.)

¿Tienes mascota / mascotas? –  Do you have a pet / pets? 

¡No tengo mascota! – I don’t have a pet.

Sí, tengo … – Yes, I have …

Un perro / una perra – a dog

Un gato / una gata – a cat 

Un conejo / una coneja – a rabbit 

Un cobayo – a guinea pig 

Una serpiente – a snake 

Un pez – a fish 

Un ratón – a mouse 

Una tortuga – a tortoise 

Un pájaro – a bird 

Un caballo – a horse

*Ms F’s Top Tips* – When you have a double r, like in perro you have to roll your rs, like a purring cat. Remember, j in Spanish makes a sound like ch as in the Scottish word loch. So conejo sounds like coney-cho. When you see ll in Spanish, it is actually a special letter. The sound it makes is y, like in ‘you’, so caballo sounds like cabye-yo. You may recognise it from me llamo (my name is), amarillo (yellow) and llueve (rain).

Answer: The reason why some animals have one Spanish version that ends in o and one that ends in a is that it is for you to say if it is a male or female animal. Well done if you worked that out!

For male animals you would use un and the word ends in o. For female animals you would use una and the word ends in a.

So if you have a male dog, you would say, “Yo tengo un perro.“

But, if you had a female dog, you would say, “Yo tengo una perra.”

If you want to say you have a number of pets you could add the number and y (and) to help.

For example, to say “I have three cats, two dogs and four rabbits“, it would be:

Yo tengo tres gatos, dos perros y quatro cabajos.

Most of the animals you just add s to the end to say there is more than one (plural). The only different ones are:

Fish (more than one) – peces

Mice – ratones

Ideas to help you practise

• Have a conversation with a parent or sibling where you take turns answering ¿Tienes mascotas? (You can make up your answers to make it trickier.)
• Create your own animal flashcards – one set with the Spanish words and another set with a picture or photo of an animal. You can then use these to play a game of memory, match pairs, or create your own game.
• Play Pictionary, where you have to draw an animal and say the answer in Spanish.
• Pick an animal and play ‘articulate’ where one player has to describe the animal using clues, but without saying the name of the animal. The other player has to guess the animal in Spanish.
• Create a poster or draw animals in your jotter and write the Spanish next to the animals.

¡Que te diviertas! 

Ms Ferguson

Here are some fun songs to help you practise and learn some other words for animals, including farm animals:

¿Qué tiempo hace hoy? – What is the weather today?

Hola Primary Two.

¿Qué tal?

¡Estoy feliz porque hoy hace sol! (I’m happy because it is sunny today!)

This week’s Spanish challenge is to practise the words for describing the weather.

Hace calor – It is hot.

Hace buen tiempo – It is good weather.

Hace sol – It is sunny.

Hace frío – It is cold.

Hace mal tiempo – It is bad weather.

Hace viento – It is windy.

Nublado – Cloudy.

Llueve – Rainy.

Nieva – Snowy.

Tormenta – Stormy.

*Ms F’s Top Tip* – Remember ‘v‘ in Spanish always sounds like ‘b‘ and ‘h’ is a silent letter. When you see ll in Spanish, it is actually a special letter. The sound it makes is y, like in ‘you’, so llueve sounds like you-ebeh. You may recognise it from me llamo (my name is) and amarillo (yellow).

Some other words that might help you are:

Hoy – today

Y – and

So, if you wanted to say today it is sunny and windy, you would say:

Hoy hace sol y viento.

Ideas to help you practise:

• Have a conversation with a parent or sibling where you take turns answering ¿Qué tiempo hace hoy?
• When doing your weather report task this week, include the weather in Spanish as well as English.
• Create your own weather flashcards – one set with the Spanish words and another set with a picture or photo of the weather. You can then use these to play a game of memory, match pairs, or create your own game.
• Practise Mrs McCracken’s Sign-a-long signs for different kinds of weather using the words in Spanish.
• Gather together some items that you would use or wear if it was a certain type of weather – like sunglasses, snow boots, a kite and an umbrella. Ask a parent or sibling to say a type of weather in Spanish, and you have to pick up the right item to match the weather.

¡Que te diviertas! 

Ms Ferguson

Here are some fun songs to help you practise:

Los Colores – Colours

Hola Primary Two.

¿Qué tal?

¡Estoy feliz y entusiasmada por el Español!

This week’s Spanish challenge is to practise the words for different colours.

Some colours have two different versions, one that ends in ‘o’ and one that ends in ‘a’. Why do you think that might be? (Answer: below the colours!)

Red- rojo / roja

Blue- azul

Yellow- amarillo / amarilla

Green- verde

Purple- morado / morada

Orange – naranja

Pink- rosa

Brown- marrón

Grey- gris

Black – negro / negra

White- blanco / blanca

Dark- oscuro 

Light – claro 

*Ms F’s Top Tip* – Remember ‘v‘ in Spanish always sounds like ‘b‘ and ‘j’ makes a ‘ch’ sound like in the Scottish word ‘loch‘. When you see ll in Spanish, it is actually a special letter. The sound it makes is y, like in ‘you’, so amarillo sounds like amareeyo. You may recognise it from me llamo (my name is) and llueves (rain).

Answer: If a colour is being used to describe something male it ends in an o, and for something that is female it would end in a.

So for example, a male white cat would be un gato blanco.

Whereas a female white cat would be una gata blanca.

Notice the colour comes after the word it is describing – this is always true in Spanish.

Ideas to help you practise

• Create your own colour flashcards – one set with the Spanish words and another set with the colour. You can then use these to play a game of memory, match the colour to the word, or create your own game.
• Make your own arco iris (rainbow) and label with the words in Spanish. You could do this using items found around your house, use chalk on the pavement outside your house, or build using lego. Get creative!
• Practise Mrs McCracken’s Sign-a-long signs for colours using the words in Spanish.
• Ask a parent or sibling to pick a colour, read it in Spanish, and you have to find something that is that colour around your house. If you are feeling confident you can be the teacher!

¡Que te diviertas! 

Ms Ferguson

There are some free games you can play on Linguascope as well as on this website:

https://rockalingua.com/games/colors

Here are some fun songs to help you practise:

The Spanish lyrics for ‘I can sing a rainbow’ are:

Rojo, amarillo y rosa y verde.

Morado y naranja y azul.

Canta los colores del arco iris. (Sing the colours of the rainbow)

Canta los conmigo. (Sing them with me)

¿Qué tal? – How are you?

Buenos días Primary Two

I hope you are all doing well and have had a lovely Easter break. This week’s Spanish challenge is to learn some words for emotions in Spanish and to be able to answer the question ¿Qué tal? – How are you?

Here are some Spanish words for emotions:

Happy – feliz

Sad – triste

Sleepy – sueño

Scared – miedo

Now, there are a few words where you have a different ending to the word depending on who is feeling the emotion. The word will end in o for boys and a for girls.

So, for example the word for angry is enojado for boys and enojada for girls.

If I wanted to say I am angry, I would say “Estoy enojada.”

But Mr Hunter would say “Estoy enojado.”

Angry – enojado / enojada

Sick – enfermo / enferma

Nervous – nervioso / nerviosa

Shy – tímido / tímida

Worried – preocupado / preocupada

Excited – entusiasmado / entusiasmada

Confused – confuso / confusa

*Ms F’s Top Tip* – Remember ‘v‘ in Spanish always sounds like ‘b‘ and ‘j’ makes a ‘ch’ sound like in the Scottish word ‘loch‘. The special Spanish letter ñ makes an ny sound so sueño sounds like suenyo. You should know it from the Spanish words cumpleaños (birthday) and mañana (tomorrow).

How to Practise

• Have a conversation with a parent or sibling where they ask ¿Qué tal? and you answer with a Spanish emotion. You could then ask ¿Y tu? (and you?) and they could answer back.
• Create a fortune teller with different emotions.
• Play a game of charades where you have to guess the emotion being acted out.
• Draw emojis for each Spanish emotion word.
• Make your own cards – make a set with the Spanish words and a set with the English words. You can then use these to play memory, match the cards or play emotion pictionary.
• Play ‘Articulate’ with emotions – where someone picks an emotion (or a card if you have made them) and has to describe the emotion, how it feels inside, or a situation when they have felt this way. The other player has to guess the emotion.

¡Que te diviertas! (Have fun!)

Ms Ferguson

Here is another song for some extra practise.

Los números en español

Buenos días Primary Two!

You all know how much I love Spanish, so here is your weekly Spanish learning. I would love you to practise saying the Spanish words for numbers as high as you can go!

The numbers would continue to treinta y uno, treinta y dos, treinta y tres….

*Ms F’s Top Tip* – Remember ‘v‘ in Spanish always sounds like ‘b‘ and the accent above vowels (like á, é, í, ó, ú) and means you put emphasis on this, so veintiséis sounds like ‘bain-ti-sayees’.

How to Practise

You could practise any way you like but here are some ideas to get you started:

• Count forwards and backwards – start with a random number for a challenge!

• Ask a parent or sibling to show you a number with their fingers and say it in Spanish

• Make up your own Spanish number flashcards using paper and coloured pens – put the numbers on the front and Spanish word for that number at the back.

• Use your flashcards to play a Spanish number memory game

• Teach your family how to play ‘veintiuno’ – remember the aim of the game is to not say veintiuno and each player can say up to 3 numbers each in order. You can help them with the Spanish if they get stuck!

¡Que te diviertas! (Have fun!)

Ms Ferguson

Here are some songs for a bit of extra practise:

Oxford Reading Tree Books

If you are looking for extra reading books for your child, log on to Glow using the link below (using login details in your home learning pack). There is an app called OUP Oxford Owl which gives you free online access to Oxford Reading Tree (ORT) books.

You simply need to register an account with the site to get free access on your computer or tablet.

https://glow.rmunify.com/

Happy reading!

P2 Team