Early Start Spanish 1: Tú y Yo

10: ¿Tienes hermanos? - Brothers and sisters

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Swap drawings of pupils' families with your link school
Spanish surnames
More about Spanish families
Data handling - recommendations of software

What you will learn in section 14

Spanish children talk about their brothers and sisters: "Three brothers" - "Two brothers"

"Two sisters"

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Swap drawings of pupils' families with your link school

Spanish surnames

You'll find out in this section that each Spanish person has TWO surnames. A demonstration on the Interactive e-CD (pictured right) shows how a child - Lucía - takes one surname from each of their parents.

Did you know?

Picasso's name was originally 'Pablo (and a lt of other christian names) Ruiz Picasso'.

When he was painting in Madrid in 1901, aged 20, he started signing his work simply 'Picasso' (his mother's name) rather than 'Ruiz', his father's name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

Spanish surnames: demonstration
Lucía takes one surmame from each of her parents: demonstration on the Interactive CD-ROM

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Find ot more about Spanish families

Families in Spain are much smaller than they used to be.

Find out more about families in Spain and Latin America from the BBC Primary Spanish web site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryspanish/learn_more/family/

Find out more about Spanish families

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Data handling software for Primary Spanish

When you introduce Spanish into the primary school curriculum, it is a good idea to use the language in otherwise familiar contexts across the curriculum.

If your class is already learning to use software for data handling, it is best to carry on using the same package for the Spanish work.

The NEW and useful elements will be:

they collect the data from other pupils (or whoever) using questions and answers in Spanish

they continue practising Spanish so far as possible when entering the data at the keyboard

they present their findings in graphs and diagrams labelled in Spanish

We have not found any software where all the menus and program dialogues are in Spanish. With young beginners, this would probably involve exposing them to too much and too difficult vocabulary too soon. So we recommend using the same software that you use across the curriculum, and to discuss in English any problems that arise when you are using the program, (or the normal class language) as you would in other lessons.

"Survey" from Software Production Associates (SPA)

1. Collecting your data in a survey of pets 2. Building up a pictogram display of the survey results

"Survey" is an easy program for children to use:
it helps them conduct surveys by themselves, prints out blank sheets for tallying the data (on which Spanish words can be used), and enables them to graph the results in a variety of formats with Spanish labels - including bar charts, pictograms and pie charts, which are suitable for the activities suggested in the Early Start Spanish starter pack.

For more information,go to www.spasoft.co.uk - where free demonstration copies of software can be downloaded. You can buy direct on-line if you wish.

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What you will learn in section 14
Spanish children talk about their brothers and sisters: "Three brothers" - "Two brothers" "Two sisters"