1. Haz Ahora Answer the following questions about the Spanish Alphabet:
Today’s Essential question:
Why is it important to know the Spanish Alphabet?
Haz Ahora
Answer the following questions about the Spanish Alphabet:
1. How many letters are there in the Spanish alphabet?
27 – veinte y siete
2. What is different about the letter H in Spanish?
The H is silent/not pronounced
3. What two letters are pronounced differently in Spain than in Latin America.
C and Z
4. What does the ñ tell you that you should do?
tilde/it is pronounced like an ny

2. Haz Ahora Answer the following questions about the Spanish Alphabet:
Today’s Essential question:
Why is it important to know the Spanish Alphabet?
Haz Ahora
Answer the following questions about the Spanish Alphabet:
1. How many Spanish vowels are there? 5
2. How many ways are there to pronounce each vowel in Spanish? 1

3. DO NOW Using The Info sheet on the alphabet,
Essential Question:
Why should you be able to know Spanish pronunciation?
DO NOW
Using The Info sheet on the alphabet,
Phonetically spell your name: (ejemplo)
w a l l y
doble u/a/ele/ele/i griega
s e i n
ese/e/i/ene

4. ferrocarril ¡Venga! viviana anaranjado geografía zapato
Find a partner, divide the list into two, then underline the consonant pronunciation rule that applies to each word. Be able to pronounce and explain your answer.
ferrocarril ¡Venga! viviana
anaranjado geografía zapato
uña gato zanahoria
feliz hombro paralelogramo
anillo quinto billete
juntos quetzal termómetro
año zoológico colegio
hielo compañía
Essential Question:
Why should you be able to know Spanish pronunciation?

5. Las vocales La vocal La pronunciación El vocabulario El inglés
a as in the word “palm” casa house
fama fame
cama bed
e as in the word “very” lento slow
verde green
mes month
i as in the word “elite” mitad half
as in the word “beet” primo cousin
vino wine
o as in the word “oh” no no
oso bear
todo all
u as in the word “lunar” luna moon
as in the word “boot” uno one
cuna crib

6. a - la da ta ba fa e - le de te be fe i - li di ti bi fi
o - lo  do  to  bo  fo
u - lu  du  tu  bu  fu
la  de  ti   bo  fu 1
lu  do  ti   be  fa 2
There is only one way to pronounce the vowels in Spanish.
If you see a vowel in a word, you have to pronounce it.
There is no such thing as a silent vowel in Spanish.
ex. chocolate

7. Las consonantes
The letters b and v have the same pronunciation as b. bien, victoria
The c of ca, co, cu is pronounced like the c in cot. cama, coco, cubo
The c of ce, ci is pronounced like the c in center in cerebro, cierto
Latin America; and with a th sound in Spain.
The g of ga, go, gu is pronounced like the “G” in go. gato, gorra, guante
The g of ge, gi is pronounced like helium. gente, gira
In the letter combinations gue and gui the u is always silent. guerra, guitarra
Occasionally the u is pronounced when it comes after a g. pingüino, cigüeña
When this is the case, you will see a dieresis (ü) over the u.
The letter h is always silent. hotel, hospital
The letter j is pronounced like the h in heavy. Jorge
The letters k and w are usually found in words kilogramo, windsurf
borrowed from other languages.
The letter combination ll is pronounced like the y
in the word you or like the s in the word measure or the letter j lluvia, calle
The letter ñ sounds like an ny. The diacritical mark over the ñ is a tilde Señor, Señorita, uña
The letter combination que is pronounced like kay and queso, quetzal
the letter combination qui is pronounced like key. Quijote, arquitecto
The letter r at the beginning of a word and the letter Rita, perro
combination rr is trilled.
The letter z is pronounced like s in Latin America and lápiz, zona
like th in Spain.
cognates are words from two different languages that are spelled alike and have similar or identical meanings.

8. El alfabeto español a – a j – jota r - ere b – be k – ka s - ese
c – ce l – ele t - te
d – de m – eme u - u
e – e n – ene v – uve, ve chica
f – efe ñ – eñe w – doble u, doble ve
g – ge o – o x - equis
h – hache p – pe y – i griega
i – i q – cu z - zeta