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First Edition 2015
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction
Using the dictionary
Parts of speech
Answer key
Spanish English
Language plus
Animals
Body
Clothes
Colours
Family
Days and dates
Weather
Places
Food
Fruit and vegetables
Drinks
Furniture
Jobs
At school
Rooms
Numbers and time
Spanish verbs
Illustrations
EnglishSpanish
About the Publisher
Introduction
The Collins Primary Illustrated Spanish Dictionary is a new bilingual dictionary aimed at primary school children who are starting to learn Spanish.
Access to a dictionary which is pitched at an appropriate level is a vital part of the language-learning process. The content of this dictionary has been carefully selected to reflect current trends in primary education and help children with acquiring basic language-learning skills.
The key aims of the Collins Primary Illustrated Spanish Dictionary are:
to develop both language skills in Spanish and language learning skills in general
to cover the four key areas of language attainment: listening, speaking, reading and writing
to reinforce key aspects of the language by the use of notes and feature boxes throughout the entries
to extend cultural awareness by providing information about Spain, especially where traditions differ from those in Britain
The Collins Primary Illustrated Spanish Dictionary supports language learning in a number of specific ways:
it develops childrens knowledge of how language works by encouraging them to understand, analyse and use simple aspects of grammar
it develops childrens individual learning skills by using a wide range of notes that explain things in a simple but interesting way
it enables children to make comparisons between Spanish and English by encouraging them to explore the similarities and differences between the two languages and cultures
it introduces young learners to all the basic elements of a bilingual dictionary and provides detailed instructions on how to get the most out of using the dictionary
The Collins Primary Illustrated Spanish Dictionary is presented in an easy-to-use format which is intended to appeal to children of primary school age. It provides lots of simple, relevant examples and tips on how to remember words, and how to avoid some of the pitfalls of translation. It also features key phrases, illustrations and information about life in Spain, making it an invaluable and exciting new resource.
Using the dictionary
Step one:
Pick the right side
Remember there are two halves to the dictionary. If you want to know what a Spanish word means, look in the first half of the dictionary.
If you want to translate an English word into Spanish, look in the second half, which is English-Spanish. It comes after the supplement in the middle of the dictionary.
1 Which of these words would you look up on the Spanish-English side of the dictionary?
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2 Look at page 51 of the dictionary. Is this the Spanish side or the English side? How can you tell?
3 Look at page 150 of the dictionary. What is shown at the top of the page, down the side?
4 Is 4 the first or the last word on page 437?
Remember that you do not read across the whole page in a dictionary you have to read down the columns.
5 Which word comes immediately after 5?
Step two:
Find the right word
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Words are in alphabetical order in the dictionary like names in the phone book, and in a school register. The alphabet is shown down the edge of each page of the dictionary. You can sort words into alphabetical order by looking at the first letter of each word.
6 Can you put these names in alphabetical order?
María, Isabel, Juan, Jorge, David, Arturo, Carmen
When two words start with the same letter, look at their second letters.
7 In alphabetical order which comes first 7 or 7?
8 This is the order of the days of the week on a calendar:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Which day comes first in a dictionary? Which comes last?
99 comes before 9 in a dictionary. Why?
10 Put the seven days of the week into alphabetical order. If the first letters are the same, and the second letters are the same, look at the third letters.
1111: which comes last in the dictionary?
Step three:
Pick the right translation
The translations are easy to spot in this dictionary because they are blue on the English-Spanish side and red on the Spanish-English side.
Spanish words can be masculine or feminine, and singular or plural. In the dictionary you will come across the abbreviations masc and fem, which tell you the gender of a Spanish word. PL tells you the word is plural. The dictionary also shows you the Spanish word for the (this can be el, el, el or el). In the Language plus supplement, NOUN is abbreviated to N and ADJECTIVE is abbreviated to ADJ.
When you look up doll you can see that the word for doll in Spanish is muñeca. You can tell that the Spanish word for doll is feminine because it is given with muñeca and the dictionary says that it is fem (feminine).
So the doll is la muñeca and a doll would be la muñeca.
Sometimes there is more than one translation, and each one has a number. If there is more than one translation, dont just pick the first one! Check to see which is the right one.
12 Which is the Spanish word for 12 that you kick 12 or 12? Look for the clue.
ball NOUN
1 la 1fem (for tennis, golf, cricket)1 ¡Dale a la pelota!
2 el 2masc (PL los 2) (for football, rugby)2 ¡Pasa el balón!
Parts of speech
Step four:
Parts of Speech
Sometimes, to pick the right translation, you need to know the part of speech of a word, for example whether a word is a noun, an adjective, an adverb or a verb.
NOUNS
Nouns are naming words for things or people. You often use the words a or the with a noun eg a Nouns, a Nouns, the Nouns, the Nouns.
Nouns can be singular, eg an accident, the accident, my accident, accident or plural, eg accident, the accident, my accident.
13 How many nouns are there in this sentence? What are they? 13
ADJECTIVES
An adjective is a describing word which tells you what things are like: adjective shoes are shoes that dont have high heels. A adjective tyre is a tyre with no air in it.
14 How many adjectives are there in this sentence? What are they? 14
Some words have a noun meaning and an noun meaning. In the dictionary there is a box to tell you about this. The different meanings usually have different translations in Spanish.
patient
patientcan be a noun or an adjective.
A NOUN
el/la pacientemasc/fem
B ADJECTIVE
pacientemasc & fempaciente El maestro es muy paciente. paciente Ten paciencia, Joshua.
ADVERBS
An adverb is a word which describes a verb or an adjective:
She writes neatly. The film was neatly good.
15 How many adverbs are in this sentence? What are they? 15
VERBS
Verbs are sometimes called doing words. They often go with words like I and you, and with names, eg I Verbs football, what Verbs you Verbs?, Hugo Verbs mashed potato.
Verbs tell you about the present,
eg Im listening the past, eg I listening a goal and the future, eg Im listening an ice cream.
16 How many verbs are there in this sentence? What are they? 16
Some words have a noun meaning and a noun meaning. In the dictionary there is a box to tell you about this. The different meanings have different translations in Spanish.
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