Booklet containing grammar rules explained in a very easy way with a couple exercises.
Key concept for IB spanish AbInitio as well as High school spanish explained
Index
Hola:
Nouns
This is a revision booklet. I hope you find it useful. - Gender
- Plurales
The exercises will allow you to reinforce and revise what Adjectives
we have learned so far. - Agreement
On the left you will find the grammatical rules and on the Present Tense
right you will find the excersices. - -AR verbs
- -ER/ -IR verbs
You need to apply the rule presented on the left in order to - Stem-changing verbs : <o - ue>
complete the excersices on the right correctly - Stem-changing verbs : <e - ie>
If you have any questions please let me know! Irregular verbs
- Ser
- Tener
ra - Venir
Sra.Li
Special Verbs : Gustar, Preferir, Encantar, Hay, Saber,
Conocer.
Vocabulario
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, NOUNS Los Plurales
Gender
Convert the following words into their plural form:
Spanish nouns are either singular or plural and masculine or
feminine. Usually nouns ending with a “o” are masculine and those POR EJEMPLO - Un zapato - unos zapatos
ending with an ”a” are feminine.
1. Una discoteca
Masculino Femenino
Singular El (the) La (the) 2. Un jardín
Plural Los (the) las (the) 3. Un supermercado
4. Una bicicleta
La agenda (femenino, singular) The agenda
Las agendas (femenino, plural) The agendas 5. Un colegio
6. Una piscina
Plural
7. La playa
To form the plural, add –s after a vowel or
–es after a consonant 8. Un hotel
El perro El caracol la naranja 9. Una cafetería
Los perros Los caracoles las naranjas
10. Un restaurante
11. Un lápiz
Words ending with –z : change –z to –es
12. Un cuaderno
Un lápiz, Cinco lápices
13. Un caracol
14. Un árbol
EXCEPTIONS : ( you will need to memorize these ones)
15. La clase
Words ending with an « o » that are not masculine but feminine:
16. Un jugador
la foto, la radio, la mano, la moto
17. El viernes
Words ending with an « a » that are not feminine but masculine:
18. Un regalo
el problema, el programa, el tema, el día, el mapa
19. Una ciudad
20. El teatro
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, Adjectives Adjectives
Subraya la repuesta correcta. (underline the right answer)
Adjectives are words that dewcribe a noun.
Words like : big, short, yellow...
1.Tengo un coche roja / rojo.
All nouns in Spanish have a gender so the adjectives have to 2.Los zapato/zapatos azules.
“agree” with the noun (this means that they show which
noun they are describing). 3.Tengo tres vestido/ vestidos amarillo/amarillos
4.Tengo un gato negro / negra y un gato gris/ grisa.
Agreement: adjectives change their endings depending on
the number ( plural or singular) and gender ( female or 5.Mi padre es mexicano / mexicana y mi madre es
masculine) of the noun they refer to. i.e
español / española.
El perro negro- Los perros negros
La casa roja- Las casas rojas Find and underline the mistakes
NOTE: adjectives ending with an “e” or a consonant do not
change in singular. 1.Mi madre tiene una agenda azula.
Masculine Feminine 2.La mapa de Europa es viejo.
o a
Singular 3.Las mesas son pequeña.
E / consonant
os As 4.La maestra es muy granda.
Plural
es
5.Los lápizes de colores.
Un perro negro : a black dog (masculine, singular)
Los zapatos azules : The blue shoes (masculine, plural) 6.El zapatos blanca
Note: “azúl” ends with a consonant so you need to
7.La mesa limpios
add “es” when plural.
Las gatas negras; the black (female) cat 8.El maestra es bueno
Note- Word Order: 9.La chocolate verde
In Spanish adjectives are writen after the nouns:
10.El papel es interesanto.
El perro negro ( the noun is perro- dog, negro is the
adjective- black that describe the dog. The black dog)
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