The grapes of New Year’s Eve

To celebrate Christmas in class, we ate the grapes of luck while watching the video of the Puerta del Sol Tower Clock in Madrid.

The Spanish tradition consists in eating a grape with each bell stroke at midnight of December 31 and if you eat them all, you will be lucky the next year.

The students of Spanish at Leyton wish you Feliz Navidad!

¡Feliz Navidad!

What is the typical Christmas treat in Spain? How do we celebrate Christmas in Spain? If you want to know it, click here.

To learn some vocabulary, click here.

You can’t miss this video: the holiday season kicks off in Madrid.

Now, ¡vamos a jugar!

Snow attack

Memory game

Word search

Multiple choice

Enjoy the holidays! ¡Feliz Navidad!

Tener expressions

Tener is an irregular -ER verb. It means “to have” but it is very used in expressions like tengo hambre and tengo sed (literally: I have hunger, I have thirst).

Practise while playing games!

• Tener conjugation: concentration, multiple choice.

• Tener expressions: word search, matching, battleship.

Presente de los verbos acabados en -ER y en -IR

We have already learned how to conjugate an -AR verb in the present tense.

If you remember how it works, it is very similar with the -ER and the -IR verbs, you only have to learn the endings.

Let’s compare the present tense of the three groups:

You will have noticed that the endings of the ER and the IR verbs are the same, except for the “nosotros” and the “vosotros” form.

To learn more about the present tense of the ER and the IR verbs click here.

To review the meanings of some common regular verbs click here.

Quizlet with common AR, ER and IR verbs

Multiple choice with the verbs you have to know

Rags to riches with conjugation

Battleship with conjugation

Español II – Las Emociones Project

The students of Spanish 2 created flashcards to illustrate the use of verb ESTAR with feelings.

Very good job!

Nosotros cantamos – We sing :)

The students of Spanish I practised the personal pronouns and the present tense of the AR verbs while singing.

They had fun and they learned some grammar!

¿Qué hora es?

To learn how to tell the time in Spanish click here. To listen to the vocabulary click here.

¡Vamos a practicar!

¿Qué hora es? y Busca el reloj (go to the “actividades” section once you are in the web).

Concentration and matching.

Listening.