This week in Spanish Year 3 have been answering the question ¿De qué color es Elmer? Being a very colourful elephant, this question can be answered in many ways, and pupils enjoyed being able to reply even if they could only recall one colour in Spanish (unless it was gris or marrón in which case they were out of luck!) We then used a conjunction y (and) to extend our sentences, and discussed how we could use commas in a list instead of y between every adjective.
The extension activity was to write sentences using the same structure about other items. Señora Stevens was particularly impressed by this piece of work as it is beautifully presented, and the learner has remembered to add the accents on limón and lámpara; accents are part of the spelling of the word! Can you work out what these sentences mean?
Year 6 were continuing to work on sports and this week looked at extending their speaking and writing giving details of how often and when they play or do sport. We discussed how the expressions are like bricks whose order can be moved around, but that you can't break a brick in half. For example, all these sentences are correct;
Normalmente los lunes juego al fútbol por la tarde.
Los lunes por la tarde normalmente juego al fútbol.
Juego al fútbol normalmente los lunes por la tarde.
Normalmente los lunes por la tarde juego al fútbol.
but you can't say Juego normalmente al fútbol as it breaks the yellow brick in half and splits the verb jugar a
Having mastered that, some learners began to join sentences using conjunctions such as y and también (also), or pero (but) and sin embargo (however) to contrast ideas. Here are a couple of examples of learners who went beyond what was asked, using their previous learning or looking up new vocabulary to make their work stand out from the rest. ¡Bien hecho las dos!