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Spanish course
Week 7
GUSTAR is the focus for this week. To use GUSTAR and other similar verbs (ENCANTAR,
INTERESAR, MOLESTAR, etc.) you need to know the indirect object pronouns in Spanish. The
following tasks will help you to learn these and how to use GUSTAR accurately to express likes and
dislikes.
Expressing likes and dislikes – 3 impersonal verbs
GUSTAR
– to please
ENCANTAR
– to delight
gusta(n)
encanta(n)
INTERESAR
– to interest
me (to me)
te (to you)
le (to him/her)
le (to you – formal,1
pers)
interesa(n)
nos (to us)
os (to you – fam.pl)
les (to them)
les (to you – formal, pl)
1 http://www.quia.com/pop/357208.html?AP_rand=2020007723
A short activity to practise indirect object pronouns.
2 http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/ejercicios/self-check/gustar2.html
Select the correct verb form or pronouns from the drop-down menu.
3 http://www.todo-claro.com/castellano/principiantes/gramatica/El_verbo_gustar/Seite_1.php
Online gap-fill. Take care to read the whole sentence each time to ensure that you have correctly
identified whether the subject of the sentence is singular or plural. (i.e. gusta or gustan).
4 http://quizlet.com/15666582/presente-verbo-gustar-practica-flash-cards/
Longer phrases to practise all parts of gustar.
5 http://www.indiana.edu/~call/ejercicios/prac_gustar01.htm
This activity includes other verbs that work in the same way as GUSTAR.
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Spanish course
6 http://www.languagesonline.org.uk/Hotpotatoes/Index.htm
This set of links helps you to revise food and drink vocabulary as well as GUSTAR. Exercises 9 – 13
revise the uses of SER and ESTAR and would be worth seeing if you have retained the learning.
7 YouTube
i) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ot_np5ChiA
A link to a presentation and explanation of the verb GUSTAR.
ii) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ0LC4RxbCA – Me gusta, le gusta, nos gusta
A valuable, humorous clip which demonstrates the different pronouns in use in everyday Spanish.
iii) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3A-fRyK3ww
An explanation of how GUSTAR words, and some short interviews with tourists in Barcelona to give
useful examples of language in use.
iv) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VurwQUDtAtQ
Light relief! A song entitled ‘A mí me gustan las hamburguesas’.