1. Nouns
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2. Daily Learning Target
By the end of the period, I will be able to identify and apply the gender and the appropriate article to various nouns in Spanish.
I will demonstrate this by completing a group/partner activity.

3. NOUNS
Nouns refer to people, animals, places, and things.

4. NOUNS
In Spanish, nouns have gender. They are either masculine or feminine.

5. Masculine / Feminine
Most nouns that end in -o are masculine.

6. Masculine / Feminine
Most nouns that end in -a are feminine.

7. Masculine / Feminine For example: el libro la calculadora
An exception: el día

8. Other Spanish Nouns
Other Spanish nouns end in -e or a consonant.

9. Other Spanish Nouns For example: el cine el marcador
la clase la televisión

10. Other Spanish Nouns
Some can be both masculine and feminine: el/la estudiante

11. Making Nouns Plural
To make nouns plural you usually add -s to words ending in a vowel and -es to words ending in a consonant.
silla sillas
teclado teclados
cartel carteles

12. Making Nouns Plural
Singular nouns that end in z change the z to c in the plural.
El lápiz los lápices

13. Definite Articles El , La , Los and Las are called definite articles.
In English they mean “the”

14. Definite Articles
We use El and Los with masculine nouns and La and Las with feminine nouns.

15. Indefinite Articles
Un, Una, Unos, and Unas are indefinite articles.

16. Indefinite Articles
Un and Una mean
“a or an” in English.

17. Indefinite Articles
Unos and Unas mean “some” in English.

18. Indefinite Articles
Un and Unos are masculine and Una and Unas are feminine.

19. It’s a good idea to
learn a noun with its
definite article, el or
la, because that will
usually tell you the
gender.