Beginning Language Level 1 (A)
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I can understand what people say in a short
conversation about family members.
I can understand basic descriptions of family
members.
I can understand personal e-mails, notes and other
short reading about family.
I can ask and tell what my family member look like and
their personality.
I can ask and tell what members of my family like to
do and why.
I can describe my family.
I can talk about what members of my family like and
don’t like and they do in their free time.
I can describe my family using photographs, etc.
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Gender / Number agreement
2. Possessive Adjectives
3. ESTAR + Prepositions
4. TENER QUE and HAY QUE
5. IR + A + Infinitive
An adjective is a word that describes a noun.
Good = bueno
Spanish adjectives generally follow the nouns that they
modify.
El coche rojo.
Most nouns that end in “O” are masculine and most
nouns that end in “A” are feminine.
Spanish adjectives must agree in GENDER and in
NUMBER with the nouns they modify.
Most adjectives can be spelled 4 different ways in
Spanish:
Bueno  Bueno, buena, buenos, buenas.
Some adjectives that end in “E” can only be made
plural by adding an “S”. No gender change.
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Possessive adjectives are words that let people know to
whom or to what something belongs.
Unlike most adjectives, these are ALWAYS found BEFORE
the nouns that they modify.
These words are adjectives; they must match the nouns
that they modify in terms of NUMBER.
Possessive Adjectives
Use the verb ESTAR (to be – Estoy, estás, está, estamos, están) to
describe the location of nouns.
 Use prepositions to locate the object.
 Prepositions:
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Use the verb TENER (to have – Tengo, tienes, tiene,
tenemos, tienen) + QUE + Infinitive (2nd verb) to tell
what someone has to do.
 Use HAY QUE + Infinitive (2nd verb) when there is no
specific subject.
 Be sure to conjugate TENER
 Examples:
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To discuss what is going to happen or what
someone is going to do, use the IR + A + Infinitive
An INFINITIVE is an unconjugated or unchanged
verb.
IR means to go and its forms include: Voy, Vas, Va,
Vamos, Van.
Examples:
 Voy a acechar el animal. I’m going to stalk
the animal.
 Vamos a cazar los tigres. We’re going to
hunt the tigers.