Reminder: Homework 1 Due Tomorrow!
Aim: How do we talk about the location of objects?
Do Now: Answer in your notebooks: Remember the verb estar? What does it mean? When have we used it before? How do you conjugate it? Estar means to be. We have used it before to say how we are doing – Yo estoy bien.
(NOTE: Don’t get Ser and Estar confused. They both mean to be but have different uses)
ESTAR
yo- estoy – I am
tú- estas – you are Use ESTAR to talk about:
el- esta – he is Fleelings
nos- estamos – we are Location
ellos- estan – they are Ing verbs
Preposiciones – We use prepositions with ESTAR to talk about the location of objects.
al lado de – next to
cerca de – near
debajo de – under
detras de – behind
encima de – on top of
lejos de – far from
al frente de – in front of
Examples:
El libro esta encima de la mesa.
La mochila esta debajo de el pupitre.
Mi casa esta al lado de el supermercado.
