GAP: Gender of nouns articles plurals

Objetivo Al fin de esta lección, vas a poder…. Determine the gender of a noun Make a noun plural Explain what definite and indefinite articles are

NOUNS Nouns - refer to _________, _________, _________ and _______ (and _________) people places things ideas animals

Gender of NOUNS Gender of Nouns- En español, every noun has a GENDER. That means that they are either ______________ or ______________ . masculine feminine

Gender of NOUNS -o -a anything else If the noun ends in an _______, it is usually masculine. __________ __________ __________ If the noun ends in an _______, it is usually feminine. If the noun ends in ____________________, you will have to memorize if it is masculine or feminine. There are a FEW irregular nouns that do no follow the pattern, but we will visit those later. -a anything else

PLURALS In Spanish, the last letter of the noun will determine how to make it plural  If the noun ends in an vowel, add ____ to make it plural. la pluma – las plumas It the nouns ends in a consonant, add ____to make it plural. El papel ---- los papeles It the nouns ends in the letter ”Z”, change the “z” to a ____ and add ____ to make it plural. El lápiz ---- los lápices -s -es c -es

ARTICLES noun An article will signal that a ___________ is going to follow (el televisor, una profesora). It will also point out ___________ of the word. There are two types of articles: ___________and ___________ gender definite indefinite

ARTICLES definite article 4 el, la, los, las indefinite articles 4 The English word “the” is a ___________ because it is used to refer to a specific person or thing. There are _____ ways to say “the” in Spanish, ____________________ The English words “a/an/ some/any/few” are ____________________ because they refer to any person or thing, not a specific one. There _____ indefinite articles, ____________________ 4 el, la, los, las indefinite articles 4 un, una, unos, unas

Definite articles- “THE”   singular plural masculine feminine el los la las

ARTICLES Indefinite articles “A/AN” “SOME/FEW” singular plural   singular plural masculine feminine un unos una unas

Fill in the chart the _______ a _______ the _______s some _______s el libro the book   una carpeta

AHORA ¿Puedes….? Determine the gender of a noun Make a noun plural Explain what definite and indefinite articles are