¡Déjame presentarme!
___________________ _______________
(pueblo/ciudad)
(fecha)
¡Hola!
Me llamo ________________________________ .
Tengo __________ años. ¿Cuántos años tienes tú?
Vivo en ______________ , en ___________________ .
¿Dónde vives tú?
(tu pais)
Soy una chica / Soy un chico.
Me gusta ____________________ y ___________________ .
No me gusta _________________________________ .
¡Hasta pronto!
_________________________
(tu nombre)
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Let me introduce myself!
___________________________
(town/village)
___________________________
(date)
Hello!
My name is ________________________________ .
I’m __________ years old. How old are you?
I live in ____________________ , in ____________________ .
(your country)
Where do you live?
I’m a girl. / I’m a boy.
I like ____________________ and ___________________ .
I don’t like _________________________________ .
Bye for now!
_________________________
(your first name)
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Vocabulario adicional
Extra vocabulary
el fútbol
los deportes
el baile
el baloncesto
montar a caballo
la natación
el atletismo
football
sports
dancing
basketball
horse riding
swimming
athletics
el chocolate
los caramelos
la coca cola
el brócoli
la pizza
las espinacas
las coles de Bruselas
el helado
chocolate
sweets
cola
broccoli
pizza
spinach
Brussels sprouts
ice cream
la música rock
la música clásica
el colegio
el cine
las películas de miedo
(de terror)
la moda
el teatro
los Simpsons
rock music
classical music
school
the cinema
horror movies
fashion
drama/theatre
The Simpsons
(en) Francia
(en) Inglaterra
(en) Escocia
(en) Gales
(en) Irlanda
(in) France
(in) England
(in) Scotland
(in) Wales
(in) Ireland
Puntos adicionales
Extra points
1. Boy or girl?
Your pen pal may not know from your first name if you are a girl or a boy. So, it’s a good idea
to tell them.
2. Tengo 10 años
Did you notice that, to say how old we are in Spanish, we say ‘¡Tengo 10 años!’ This literally
means ‘I have 10 years’!
3. El, la, los, las
In English we say:
I like football.
I like classical music.
I like sweets.
I like horror movies
el
la
los
las
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but in Spanish we say:
Me gusta el fútbol.
Me gusta la música clásica.
Me gustan los caramelos.
Me gustan las películas de miedo.
the
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El means ‘the’ before a masculine word such as:
el queso
the cheese
el brócoli
the broccoli
el zumo de naranja the orange juice
La means ‘the’ before a feminine word such as:
la música clásica
la manzana
la coca
the classical music
the apple
the cola
los deportes
los Simpsons
los caramelos
the sports
The Simpsons
the sweets
las pizzas
las manzanas
las películas de
miedo
the pizzas
the apples
horror movies
Los means ‘the’ before a masculine word in
the plural such as:
Las means ‘the’ before a feminine word in
the plural such as:
¡Ideas adicionales!
Extra ideas!
Include a map of your country showing
where you live. Write ‘¡Yo vivo aquí!’ (I
live here) and draw an arrow pointing to
where you live.
¡Yo vivo aquí!
Draw the flag of both your country and
your pen pal’s country on your letter
page. Alternatively, you could draw a
page-size flag of your country or your
pen pal’s country and write your letter
on the flag!
Use the colour-by-number flags below to
help you.
2
3
The United
Kingdom
Flag
3
1
1
1
1
3
1
1
1
3
Draw or include pictures of
anything that you think is
particular to your country
such as a double-decker bus
or a red postbox.
La bandera
española
1
2
3
3
4
3
1 = azul (blue)
2 = blanco (white)
3 = rojo (red)
4 = amarillo (yellow)
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