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Vocab test

1. Te quiero – I love you
2. Él no nos conoce – He doesn’t know us
3. Mamá nos llama – Mum calls us
4. Ella me compra té – She buys me tea
5. Te llamamos – We call you
6. Me ayudas – You help me
7. Él me necesita – He needs me
8. Ella no me escucha – She doesn’t listen to me
9. Ella te compra regalos – She buys you gifts
10. Ellos nos visitan – They visit us

Verb of the day

Conjugate the verb ESCUCHAR (To listen) in the present tense.

Yo	Nosotros
Tú	Vosotros
Él/ Ella/ Usted	Ellos/ Ellas/ Ustedes

Questions to answer

Translation tool

1. ¿Te compran muchos regalos tus padres?

2. ¿Tu hermano te ayuda mucho?

3. ¿Tu mamá siempre te escucha?

4. ¿Tu hijo te visita a menudo?

5. ¿El jefe nos necesita ahora?

6. ¿Tu abuela te enseña mucho?

7. ¿Tus amigos te quieren?

8. ¿Por qué no me llamas muy a menudo?

A simple dialogue

Use the Spanish phrases to translate the English dialogue.  Write it out and perform it.

• Hi Anna.  What is the matter?  Are you annoyed?
• My mum asks me to call her every week, but she never answers.
• Does she call you?
• She doesn’t call any of us.
• Do you visit her?
• She lives far away, but my brothers live near her.  They visit her every week.
• They could ask her to call you!  Does she listen to them?
• Yes, I think that they help her a lot.  They always buy her food, and they clean the house.
• I think that she needs them!  Oh, who is calling you now?
• It is mum!  Hello mum!  Do you want to visit me?  I would love to have coffee with you.  I love you too!  She loves me!
• She loves you!

Use these phrases to translate the dialogue.

¡Creo que los necesita!  Oh, ¿quién te está llamando ahora?

¡Ella te ama!

¡Es mamá!  ¡Hola mamá!  ¿Quieres visitarme?  Me encantaría tomar un café contigo.  ¡Yo también te quiero!  ¡Ella me ama!

¡Podrían pedirle que te llame!  ¿Ella los escucha?

¿Ella te llama?

¿La visitas?

Sí, creo que la ayudan mucho.

Siempre le compran comida y limpian la casa.

No llama a ninguno de nosotros.

Ella vive lejos, pero mis hermanos viven cerca de ella.  La visitan todas las semanas.

Hola, Ana. ¿Qué te pasa? ¿Estás enojada?

Mi mamá me pide que la llame todas las semanas, pero nunca responde.

Choose from a range of voices to read your dialogue here.

Grammar notes

* Read this information, then use it to quiz a friend.

DIRECT OBJECT PRONOUNS

A direct object is the person or thing that directly receives the action of the verb.  In English, it’s often the who or what that the verb affects. For example, in the sentence “I see Anna”, Anna is the direct object.

Direct Object Pronouns (DOPs) are used to replace direct objects in order to avoid repetition. Instead of saying “I see Anna” and using the proper noun, we use a pronoun like “I see you” (Te veo).

Here are the Spanish DOPs:

Singular	Plural
me (me)	nos (us)
te (you – familiar)	os (you all – familiar, Spain)
lo (him, it, you – masculine) la (her, it, you – feminine)	los (them – masculine) las (them – feminine)

Direct object pronouns are usually placed before the conjugated verb (or attached to the end of an infinitive verb or a gerund, which we will study later).

EXAMPLES

• Siempre te llamo = I always call you
• Nunca me escucha = He/she never listens to me
• Yo creo que nos necesitan = I think that they need us
• Me compra pasteles = He/she buys me cakes

PRONOUNS, PRONOUNS, PRONOUNS

There are many types of pronoun.  It is good to study just one set at a time.  Some of the main types of pronoun are listed below (but there are more than this!)

Subject pronouns refer to who or what is doing the action.  You know these words in Spanish: yo, tú, él, ella, usted, nosotros, vosotros, ellos, ellas, ustedes. 

Reflexive pronouns are used with reflexive verbs, for example, to get up = levantarse.  Me levanto, te levantas, se levanta, nos levantamos, os levantáis, se levantan.

Indirect object pronouns are something we will learn about later.  These words are used with verbs like gustar.  Me gusta, te gusta, le gusta, nos gusta, os gusta, les gusta.

Suggested grammar lesson.

Journal prompts

Write short sentences.  Keep them as simple as you can.

Use a translation tool to put them into Spanish.

Write them out, then check them with your teacher.  Present them to a friend, teaching your friend any new Spanish, and making sure they learn it!

How often do you say, “I love you” to the people you care about? Who do you help in your daily life?  How do you help them? When you go to a café with your mum, do you buy her a drink, or does she buy you a drink?

¿Con qué frecuencia dices ‘te quiero’ a las personas que te importan? ¿A quién ayudas en tu vida diaria?  ¿Cómo le ayudas? Cuando vas a un café con tu madre, ¿le invitas una bebida o te invita ella una?

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