Topic Two (1.2): ¿Qué tal?
Objectives for this topic
- To be able to greet people and introducing yourself
- Understanding verb endings
Introduction
In this topic, you will learn how to greet people in Spanish at different times of the day, ways of saying goodbye and the Spanish alphabet.
Working through your course book
Please work through the following sections in your coursebook, completing all listed exercises:
- Page 10 Exercise 1: Look at the Spanish alphabet and listen to Audio track 4. Practise and repeat the exercise.
LISTEN - Audio Track 4 Download LISTEN - Audio Track 4
- Page 10 Exercise 2: Listen to Audio track 5 and fill in the gaps to make the people’s names. The Spanish alphabet is very useful when spelling your name, surname or address (remember that in Spanish we have an extra letter, Ñ, which is pronounced differently to N).
LISTEN - Audio Track 5 Download LISTEN - Audio Track 5
- Then complete Exercise 3 on page 10. How are these names pronounced?
- Next, look at Exercise 4. Practise reading the dialogue aloud or with a partner if possible!
- Page 10 Read the ¡Atención! box regarding double consonants.
- Page 11 Exercise 5 – Read the conversations and decide if the response is positive or negative.
- Page 11 Exercise 6 – listen to Audio track 6 and complete the gaps in the dialogue with the words provided.
- Now look at Exercise 7 on page 11. There are some mistakes! Read the conversations carefully, then write them out, correcting the words that are misspelt. It is important that you learn all of these expressions, as they are very important when greeting someone and introducing yourself!
- Read the Estrategia box on page 11 for tips about your accent. If you want to sound authentic, use lots of expression and intonation in your voice. Learn the dialogue you created in Exercise 8 by heart and act it out with friends. Practise your pronunciation out loud and stress questions at the end using intonation (by raising the pitch of your voice).
Review
Write a conversation of your own, like that in Exercise 7. Pretend to talk to someone from your family or a good friend (Exercise 8).
As an extra challenge, can you correctly spell your name, surname and address using the Spanish alphabet we learnt in Exercise 1?
Interactive Kerboodle activities
Log onto Kerboodle and complete the following interactive activities for this topic:
COMPLETE - Listening activity: ¿Qué tal? Links to an external site.
COMPLETE - Vocab builder: Greetings Links to an external site.
Support activity for this topic
- Watch these two videos by Señor Jordan and make a note of any new expressions that you hear:
WATCH - Basic Conversation in Spanish (YouTube) Links to an external site.
WATCH - Learn Spanish - Basic Conversation (YouTube) Links to an external site.
- Then, watch this video- it will help you learn the Spanish alphabet!
WATCH - Spanish Alphabet Song (YouTube) Links to an external site.
- Next, log onto Language Nut and choose the Vocab Trainer page. Complete the following
About me- Languages – Greetings
Extension activity for this topic
- Learn three expressions that mean that can give a positive answer to the question ‘¿Qué tal?’ and another three to express a negative answer. It´s good to have a wide range of vocabulary and use a variety of words!
- For example:
Fantástico, muy bien, excelente, así así, mal, fatal.
- Also, practice these two ways of introducing yourself: -Me llamo: I´m called… -Soy: I am…
- Ensure that you can respond to these questions/statements orally:
- ¿Cómo te llamas?
- ¿Cómo se escribe?
- ¿Cómo estás?
- Adiós
Check your answers
If you would like to check your answers for this topic, you can do so by consulting the Claro 1 module answers for Topic 1.2:
CHECK - Topic 1.2 Download CHECK - Topic 1.2
Grammar Alert
Read the Gramática box on page 10. In Spanish, the verb ending changes to show us who is the subject of the sentence (who is doing the action). Learn these endings well - they are extremely important.
Vocabulary
Review the vocabulary section ¿Qué tal? (How are you?) on page 28.