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Tema 1
Infinitives, negative statements,
culture
Listening Activity 1
• You will hear Rosa say what she likes and
doesn’t like to do. Listen to the statements
and determine what she likes to do and what
she doesn’t like to do.
Listening Activity 2
• Listen to what some people like to do and be
able to tell in English.
Infinitives
• Infinitives have to do with verbs
• Verbs are words that are most often used to
name actions.
• Verbs in English have different forms
depending on who is doing the action or when
the action is occurring:
– I walk, She walks, we walked, etc.
• The most basic form of a verb is called an
infinitive
• In English, they usually have the word “to” in
front of them
– To dance, to ski, to ride, to walk, to write, etc.
• In Spanish, infinitives don’t have a separate
word like “to” in front of them.
• Spanish infinitives are only 1 word, and always
end in –ar, -er, ir
– Nadar, leer, montar,, escribir, hablar,
Me gusta o No me gusta
• Find four activities in Me gusta
your list that you like to
do, and four activities
that you don’t like to
do.
• Copy this chart on your
paper and write
activities in
corresponding columns.
No me gusta
Part 2
• Using this information, tell your partner the
activities you do and don’t like to do. Your
partner must agree or disagree.
– To agree: ¡A mí también!
– To disagree: ¡A mí no me gusta!
Listening Activity 3
• Tear a sheet of paper into three equal parts .
• On one piece write –ar, on another –er, and
on the third –ir
• You will hear several infinitives. Listen
carefully to the endings.
• Hold up the paper with the correct ending.
Exit slip
1. Write three things you like to do using the
phrase Me gusta…..
1. Example: Me gusta bailar. (I like to dance.)
2. What is an infinitive?
3. List 3 OTHER infinitives from your vocabulary
list.
Cognates
• Cognates are words that look alike and have
similar meanings in English and Spanish.
• Examples
– Popular
– Usar
– Guitarra
– Computadora
Negativos
• To make a sentence negative in Spanish, you usually
put no in front of the verb or expressions. In English,
we usually use the word “not”
– No me gusta cantar.
• To answer a question negatively in Spanish, you often
use no twice.
• The first no answers the question, the other is your
“not”
– ¿Te gusta escribir cuentos?
• No, no me gusta escribir cuentos.
• In Spanish, you might use one or more
negatives after answering “no.”
– ¿Te gusta montar en patineta?
– No, no me gusta nada.
» No, I don’t like it at all.
– If you want to say that you do not like either of
two choices, use ni…ni.
• No me gusta ni bailar ni dibujar.
– I don’t like to dance nor sing.
Adjetivos
• ¿Qué es un adjetivo?
– Words that describe people and things
• In Spanish, most adjectives have both
masculine and femenine forms.
• The masculine form usually ends in –o, and
the femenine form usually ends in –a.
Cont’d
• Masculine adjectives are used to describe masculine
nouns.
– Marcos es ordenado y simpático.
• Femenine adjectives are used to describe femenine
nouns.
– Manuela es ordenada y simpática.
• Adjectives that end in –e describe both masculine
and feminine nouns.
– Pedro es inteligente. Margarita es inteligente.
• Adjectives whose masculine form ends in –dor
have a femenine form that end in –dora.
– Juan es trabajador.
– Luz es trabajadora.