SER & ESTAR SUPER Q-CARDS

 

 

Sue Fenton, M Ed

 

 

Levels:  Spanish 1 and 2  

 

DESCRIPTION:

 

             A book of 320 entertaining question flash cards for quick paired speaking practice. The questions are based on the various uses of SER and ESTAR and help students learn the uses through listening and speaking.

             Each card has one question and also up to 12 possible substitutions. This allows for more variety each time a question is asked. Including substitutions, there are 2,400 possible questions. Many of teh Q-Cards are illustrated.

 

 

                  Among the Categories:

 

   

SER

 

     •  Identifying people & things

     •  Color, Shape & Size              

     •  Physical Qualities & Character                                               

     •  Nationality                

     •  Materials       

     •  Numbers & Time                                                                                

     •  Calendar                                                                               

     •  Events - W²               

     •  Impersonal "Es"  (Where & When)    

     •  Prices, Possession, Professions  

     •  Passive                                                           

 

ESTAR

 

     •  Physical Condition                 

     •  Mood                                                

     •  Location  

     •  Temporary Looks & Conditions

     •  Food Quality

     •  Expressions  

     •  Present Progressive               

 

 

USING the Q-CARDS:

 

            This is a very helpful teacher tool, saving untold hours of time, that can be a vital tool for improving fluency.

 

     •   Short daily paired speaking practice

                        (5 Q-Cards per pair; they ask each other the 5 questions)

 

     •   Practice for the uses of SER & ESTAR by listening and speaking.)

  

     •   Paired speaking practice all year long

 

     •   Improve question-asking practice and etch questions in students' minds

                         (as students answer frequently in class and don't get much practice

                                  answering questions)

     

     •   Homework assignments  

 

     •   Resource of questions for student interviews and assessments, quiz and test

          questions, paired conversation ideas, class game show and competition questions

 

 

INCLUDED:

 

    1)  Two handy scripts for all the SER and ESTAR questions and substitutions.

                     Teachers may refer to these whenever they're looking for questions.

 

    2)  Optional "flip side" pages with vocabulary & meanings to copy on the back of the cards

                     for early beginners

 

    3)  3 possible formats – FULL pages that may be used as HALF pages that may be cut into

                      INDIVIDUAL Q-Cards that students draw randomly from a bowl or decorated

                      box.

 

    4)  Instructions, uses, and activities.                

                                 

   

 

            8   S. M. Fenton                 All rights reserved.