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CONTENTS: Introduction: 1 Greetings 2 Goodbye 3 ¿Qué tal? 4 What's your name? Famous people 5 Colours 6 Numbers 1-12 7 Ages 8 Months 9 Numbers 13 - 31 10 Birthdays 11 Days of the week 12 Today's date 13 Pets 14 Brothers & sisters 15 Consolidation / assessment 16 En la clase |
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One school collected the first names (nombres) of all the children in each class, and of their parents. When they exchanged lists with their Spanish link school, they found that in Spain, some names were very common, like Juan and José for boys and fathers. Often they had a second Christian name - like Juan Miguel, José Antonio.... Some girls' names were more unusual. Maria was very common, after la Virgen María - the Virgin Mary. There was a María de la Concepción, Mary of the Conception - and other variations. Some girls had the name of the local patron saint. One boy was called Josep , which is José in catalan - a local language soken in the Barcelona region. Spain has several local languages, including Galician and Basque. The school asked their link school for other names which would be common in those areas. The link school asked if there were local languages used in parts of Britain - and this led to an exchange of Welsh and gaelic names. The lists from Spain also included some English names which have become popular though international stars of film and sport. |
We
did a survey of names in Spain|
One school collected the first names (nombres) of all the children in each class, and of their parents. When they exchanged lists with their Spanish link school, they found that in Spain, some names were very common, like Juan and José for boys and fathers. Often they had a second Christian name - like Juan Miguel, José Antonio.... Some girls' names were more unusual. Maria was very common, after la Virgen María - the Virgin Mary. There was a María de la Concepción, Mary of the Conception - and other variations. Some girls had the name of the local patron saint. One boy was called Josep , which is José in catalan - a local language soken in the Barcelona region. Spain has several local languages, including Galician and Basque. The school asked their link school for other names which would be common in those areas. The link school asked if there were local languages used in parts of Britain - and this led to an exchange of Welsh and gaelic names. The lists from Spain also included some English names which have become popular though international stars of film and sport. |
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You'll find out in this section that each Spanish person has TWO surnames. A demonstration on the Interactive e-CD (pictured right) shows how a child - Lucía - takes one surname from each of their parents. Did
you know? Picasso's name was
originally 'Pablo (and
a lt of other christian
names)
Ruiz-Picasso'. When he was painting in
Madrid in 1901, aged 20, he started signing his
work simply 'Picasso' (his mother's name) rather
than 'Ruiz', his father's name. |
 Lucía
takes one surmame from each of her parents:
demonstration on the Interactive
CD-ROM |
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