Unit 4: La casa

Interiores

Use furniture vocabulary, articles, and hay or esta.

A110 min

Describe objects in a room and say where they are.

Warm-up

Key words

table

mesa

chair

silla

there is

hay

is

esta

Input

Mi habitacion

Mi habitacion es pequena pero comoda. A la izquierda hay una cama individual con una manta azul. Frente a la cama tengo una mesa blanca para estudiar. Encima de la mesa hay una lampara y dos libros de espanol. En la pared cuelgan tres fotos de mi familia. Al lado de la puerta hay un armario pequeno para la ropa.

  • What furniture appears in the room?
  • Which sentences use location rather than existence?
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Focus

Furniture, articles, and hay/esta

This lesson brings together object nouns, articles, and the key contrast between hay and esta.

  • Use hay to introduce a thing that exists in the room.
  • Use esta or estan to place a known thing.
  • Keep article and noun together when you speak.
Hay una mesa.La mesa esta delante de la cama.Hay dos libros.

Practice

Micro-exercises

Exercise 1

Choose the best sentence for introducing a chair.

Exercise 2

Choose a piece of furniture.

Exercise 3

Choose the best answer for this interiores situation.

Exercise 4

Complete: ___ mesa esta junto a la ventana. Choose the best option.

Exercise 5

Choose the Spanish for "table".

Exercise 6

Complete: ___ mesa esta junto a la ventana.

Exercise 7

Translate to Spanish: table.

Exercise 8

Translate to Spanish: chair.

Exercise 9

Translate to Spanish: there is.

Exercise 10

Translate to Spanish: is.

Exercise 11

Put the sentence in the correct order.

camaestaaquiLa

Exercise 12

Put the sentence in the correct order.

mesaHayuna

Exercise 13

Put the sentence in the correct order.

delantedelacamaLamesaesta

Exercise 14

Put the sentence in the correct order.

doslibrosHay

Exercise 15

Put the sentence in the correct order.

hayunarmarioSi

Exercise 16

Choose the most natural reply for this interiores exchange.

Exercise 17

Choose the most natural reply for this interiores exchange.

Exercise 18

Choose the most natural reply for this interiores exchange.

Exercise 19

Choose the most natural reply for this interiores exchange.

Exercise 20

Choose the most natural reply for this interiores exchange.

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Tutor handoff

Copy and paste this prompt into Virtual Tutor to continue the lesson in guided conversation form.

Act as a patient A1 tutor. Ask me to describe my room using furniture nouns, articles, and hay or esta.

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