Sport: Grammar and Phonics (AQA GCSE Spanish): Revision Note

To be able to talk about sports, you need to use a group of opinion verbs which follow a certain pattern. Let's look at this in more detail.

Interesar-type verbs

• In English, we say ‘I like basketball’, but in Spanish we say ‘basketball pleases me’

• There are a group of verbs in Spanish which follow this structure

• They are often used to give opinions

• The verbs match the thing that is liked, not the person who likes it

• They end in -a when followed by singular nouns and -an when followed by plural nouns

• To say who likes something, use an indirect object pronoun before the verb

• We can also use these verbs with infinitives:

  • te gusta correr

    you like running

  • le interesa bailar

    he / she is interested in dancing

  • me encanta nadar

    I love swimming

Sport: phonics

• The letter [j] is a harsh, guttural sound in Spanish

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