BEGINNERS 3 COURSE, SPRING 2021, CLASS 7

 Week 7

This week we looked at the map of Spain and we revised how to ask for places.

Spain is divided into 17 different regions (comunidades autonómas) and 2 independent cities that belong to the country (ciudades autónomas) called Ceuta and Melilla.

There are 52 different provinces (provincias) that constitute the country.

In groups, we guessed where the following places are.

¿Dónde está…? – Where is…?

… Tenerife? – Tenerife está en las Islas Canarias – It’s in the  Canary Islands.

…Barcelona? – Barcelona está en Cataluña

…Santiago de Compostela? – Está en Galicia.

…Mallorca? – Está en las Islas Baleares

…Bilbao? – Está en el País Vasco.

…Málaga? – Está en Andalucía

…Fuerteventura? – Está en las Islas Canarias

…Toledo? – Está en Castilla – La Mancha

 

We learnt how to ask where we have been. It is formed with the verb HABER (in the person we are talking about) and a participle, which is formed by changing the end of the verb in infinitive by a participle ending.

Haber: he, has, ha, hemos, habéis, han

Verbs which end by –ar à -ado Trabajar – trabajado; jugar-jugado; visitar-visitado

Verbs which end by –er / -ir à -ido          Beber-bebido; dormir-dormido

 

Yo he visitado – I have visited

Tú has comido – You have eaten

Él ha bailado – he has danced

Nosotros hemos leído – we have read

Vosotros habéis dejado – You have left

Ellos han corrido – they have run

In pairs, we practiced the following questions with our own experiences.

¿Has estado en …? ­– Have you ever been to…?

¿has estado en Barcelona? – No, nunca he estado en Barcelona – No, I’ve never been to Barcelona

¿Has estado en Sevilla? – Sí, he estado allí muchas veces – Yes, I’ve been there many times.

¿Has estado en Mallorca? – Sí, estuve allí el año pasado – Yes, I was there last year.

 

In the last part of the class, we practiced the following questions:

¿Qué idiomas has estudiado? – What languages have you learnt?

¿has comido paella? – Have you eaten paella?

¿Has bailado flamenco? – Have you danced flamenco?

¿Has viajado a España? – Have you travelled to Spain?