LearnModule 3 · Lesson 29 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2, first halfUnit 6 · Reading and writing I

Mis frases — writing frames

Module 3 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2, first half), lesson 29 of 30: Writing frames turn your words into your sentences: Ayer ___. On this page: 7 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.

The words

Spanish	English	Say it
yo escribo	I write	yoh ehs-KREE-boh
la palabra	the word	lah pah-LAH-brah
el cuaderno de español	the Spanish notebook	ehl kwah-DEHR-noh deh ehs-pah-NYOHL
la carta	the letter (mail)	lah KAR-tah
querido Tomás	dear Tomás	keh-REE-doh toh-MAHS
querida Ana	dear Ana	keh-REE-dah AH-nah
el diario	the diary	ehl DYAH-ryoh

Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.

La regla · The rule

Writing frames turn your words into your sentences: Ayer ___. Mañana voy a ___. Mi ciudad es más ___ que ___.

Y también · And also

Fill each frame truthfully, out loud first, then in pencil. Six filled frames is a diary entry. Querido Tomás (dear Tomás) opens a letter to a boy; querida Ana to a girl.

Ojo · Watch out

querido agrees with the person you write to: querido Tomás, querida Ana. It means dear, and only dear — nothing to do with querer as wanting.

Do it now — on paper

Say all 7 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with yo escribo.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 29 in Module 3 are the written half of this page.

This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.

Keep these words

Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.

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