Subject name SPANISH

Subject Co-ordinator’s Name Dr. T. SriVani

& Contact no Mob: 9491882979

Topic SALUDOS EN ESPAÑOL –

GREETINGS IN SPANISH

Part / Duration

SUBJECT EXPERT: Ms. Aparna Nori

Name(as per Bank A/c no.) Aparna Nori

Address, #5, 12-5-149/11,SriVani Apts,

Vijaypuri, Tarnaka,
Contact no. and Hyderabad- 500017
E-mail ID Mob: 9000522275

apnori@gmail.com

Qualification M.A(English) M.A(Spanish)

Designation Assistant Professor

OBJECTIVE: The objective of the lesson is to make you aware of the greetings in
the language learning. Greetings are important and an integral part of the language
learning which makes the first contact or is the first medium to start the contact.

The student would get thoroughly acquainted with the various Spanish greetings to
strike up a social interaction.
SUMMARY: The student at the end of this lesson would have learnt the very
important aspect of knowing how to strike up a conversation in various social and
personal contexts. He/She would also have learnt of the various expressions and
phrases required to do the same. Be it how to say Hello/Goodmorning to how to
bid goodbye, the student would be taught all this. He/She would also be introduced
to the Spanish alphabet which is of primordial importance to language learning.
The sound of the letters will be taught with an appropriate examples which will
help students learn it rapidly and effectively.

LESSON: SALUDOS EN ESPAÑOL – GREETINGS IN SPANISH

- ¡Hola! Chicos y chicas…. Hello Boys and Girls, Bienvenido a la clase de

español. A very warm welcome to the Spanish class.
- So, what is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about
Spanish?... it could be.. a sport, food, music etc or anything muy bien very
good seems like you are already aware about a lot of things.
- Hoy Vamos a aprender los saludos Today we are going to learn the greetings
in Spanish
- I will be reading the greetings and you will repeat after me
- Before we start I just want to let you that as we have tum and aap similarly
we have usted and tu in Spanish
- Now we are going to start with the Greetings
- Hola – Hello
- Buenos días – Good morning
- Buenas tardes – Good afternoon or Good evening
- Buenas noches – Good Night
- After we say Good morning, hello,or Good afternoon we will ask How is
someone or How are you or How do you do ?
- ¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás tú? tum
- Hello How are you?
- Cómo está usted? (Aap) Hello How are you? Formal
- Other greetings are ? ¿qué tal? Can be used in formal or Informal both other
greeting words when you are saying good bye and trying to see off like
Hasta pronto, Adios, Gracias –Thank Adios-Bye Hasta Pronto-See you soon.
-
- Alright, ahora vamos a repetir.
- Please repeat after me.
- Hola, Juan Hello John
- Hola María – Hi Maria
- Ok, Now we are going to learn to elaborate more on greetings part and we
would see what extra or other phrases do we use in Spanish. So in greetings
we could see that
- Buenos días is Good day
- Buenas tardes- Good afternoon/Good Evening
- Buenas noches – Good Night
- So you see that there is a continuity of the word Buenos/Buenas so Buenos
días – Good day , Buenas Tardes – Good evening so Tardes is Evening or
Good afternoon, can be used for afternoon as well. Buenas noches – it is like
good night so the word Noches is Night.
- Similarly to go ahead and learn more about the greetings in Formal and
informal way look in Spanish Language, ah they are very friendly people
they express all their affection and their feeling through the language. So
 they would use the word like Hola Guapa – Hi Beauty or they use the
diminutive for of it Hola Guapita- Hi Beauty, look now that is in very
positive way and not in a derogatory way or in another way but then in a
very positive way.
- Similarly we use the word like Señor, Señora, Señorita, these words you
might have heard few conversation in English and when you are reading or
watching some films in your local language also. We will see how they are
used, so in any formal greeting we will use these words like Hola Señor
Márquez – Hello Mr. Márquez
- Hola Señora Guadalupe – hellos Misses Guadalupe
- Hola Señorita Ines – Hi Miss Ines.
- So these words – Señor is Mr. Señora is Misses and Señorita is Miss.
- More to learn in the greeting parts when we are trying to see off somebody
or in the conversation then we use the words like
- Hasta Pronto
- Hasta mañana
- Hasta Pronto – See you soon
- Hasta mañana – See you tomorrow
- Hasta el lunes – see you on Monday
- So el lunes is Monday
Similarly we can use the anyday of the week to indicate that when we will
see next time Hasta el viernes see you on Friday. Hasta ahora so ahora
means if you are going to meet someone in few moments of time then we
use the Word “Hasta Ahora) o another Word is like to say goodbye – Adios.

Also when we meet someone for the first time we either say ‘Mucho gusto’
or ‘Encantado/a (if it’s a lady), to say ‘nice meeting you’.
Hello Now we are going to start with the Important part of the or the first
initial part of the Language – to learn the alphabet in Spanish.
Needless to say that the importance of the Alphabets- or el abacedario is
very important part of Learning a language.
Muy Bien, I would include the teaching through Power Point slides and will
also have the phonetics symbol and phonetics transcription of the word
which will be uttered there as a sample word to assimilate the sound of the
particular alphabet or the sound .

Buenos días todos, lets learn Spanish alphabets

Good morning to all Lets learn the Spanish alphabet today which in Spanish
is called el Abecedario
So please repeat after me, Hello Students – How are you? ¿Cómo estáis?
How are you? Muy bien, Yo también Bien.
Buenos vamos a empezar con el Abecedario. Today we are going to start
with the Alphabets in Spanish.
As you know that Spanish is , In Spanish or in Any language the Alphabet is
very Important because that is where the Language starts.
Please refer to the PPT which has been shared with you there we have the
alphabets shown there.
So i am saying in English first and then the sound in Spanish and one Word
with that particular alphabet.
A – América
B- Barcelona
C- Colombia
D- Doña
E-Elefante
F- Fernando
G- Guadalupe
H- Look H is very important and an interesting letter in the language. H is
the only alphabet which is countless. We do not have sound for H.
Though we have the name of the alphabet H is Ache in Spanish, but the
pronunciation or the sound of the letter will be silent. Like Honduras
En Honduras the letter starts with H however H does not have a sound.

I- iglesia

J- Juan or John in English

K – Kilo

L- Lima, Ladron

M- Mamá, Madrid

N- Nicaragua

O- Olga, Orlanda

P- Penelope Cruz, Pedro

Q- Queso, Quien

R- Rodriguez, Raúl , Rafael

S- Sandra , Santiago, Sevilla

T- Do remember that there is no (T) sound like () we have in English.

Tomas, Tequila
 U- Uruguay

V- Verdad, Valencia

W- Walter

X- Ximena

Y- Yogur

Z- Zaragoza.

Now apart from these 26 letters which we have in English in Spanish we have
few extra letters or alphabets those are as they are given on the slides

LL- llamar

N – Mañana

Ch- Chica Chico

RR- Perro

Thank you that was all about the Spanish alphabets we have 26 letters as in English
and apart from that we have few more extra letters which was given in the PPT.
You could look at that. Please go through the lessons repeat the words as an
examples for each alphabet. We could learn about the alphabets and could see the
Greetings and how do we use these greeting and alphabets in different ways like
Formal conversation Informal conversation how do we greet in the Morning part of
the day and in the afternoon and in the evening as well.

So more on the details in the alphabets we will be seeing in the next session
however just to before we wrap up we have a lot of words which we see in the
conversation day and night which are of Spanish you might not be really aware
about them just few to give you Example like Viva – Long Live Viva España Viva
Español , La Lengua española similarly you have the Word fiesta which is very
much from Spanish which means Festival. Few other Icons which a very popular,
very well know like Che Guevara he is one of the icon from the Hispanic World.
Who is very popular in our conversations or Communication of our day to day life.
So we could relate ourselves and Learning Spanish is a lot of fun stay connected
and we will catch in the next session. Thank You – Gracias, Adiós

CONCLUSION: So, my dear chicos y chicas, to conclude, we have in this

lesson today, learnt the very important aspect of knowing how to strike up a
conversation in various social and personal contexts. They have also learnt of the
various expressions and phrases required to do the same. Be it how to say
Hello/Good morning to how to bid goodbye, the student learnt all this. He/She has
been introduced to the Spanish alphabet which is of primordial importance to
language learning. The sound of the letters has been taught with appropriate
examples which will help students learn it rapidly and effectively.

FAQs

1. How does one pronounce the word ‘hospital’ in Spanish?

Ans: It is pronounced as ‘ospital’ as the letter ‘h’ is silent.

2. How is the letter ‘Ll’ pronounced in Spanish?

Ans: It is either pronounced as ‘elye’ or ‘elje’.

3. What is the difference between’señora’ and ‘señorita’?

Ans: ‘Señora’ is used to address an old/matured/elderly lady while’señorita’ is

used to address a young woman.

4. How does a person ask ‘how are you’ in Spanish?

Ans: Apart from ‘cómo está/s, which means how are you, we say ‘qué tal’, ‘cómo

andas/ qué tal estás.

EXERCISES FOR PRACTICE:

1. Fill up the following blanks to complete the words.

1. M_s_

2. _ot_ll_

3. M_ xi_o

4. _oleg_o

5. Est_di_r

ANS:

1. Mesa

2. Botella

3. México

4. Colegio
5. Estudiar

2. Arrange the following conversation in order by giving numbers.

a. Me llamo Luis, ¿y tú?

b. ¡Hola! ¿qué tal?

c. Soy Alejandra

d. Encantada

e. Mucho gusto

f. ¡Hola!, ¿cómo te llamas?

f.1, b. 2, a.3, c.4, e. 5, d. 6

REFERENCES:

ELE Inicial- 1 (nivel Inicial)

Aula – 1(nivel Inicial)

Pasaporte - 1(nivel Inicial)

GLOSSARY
Deletrear To spell
Pronunciar To

pronounce
Escribir To write
Abecedario Alphabet
Letra letter

Websites: www.aprenderespañol.org

www.studyspanish.com

http://www.donquijote.org/spanishlanguage/

Multiple Choice Questions:

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1. How does one say ‘how are you’ in Spanish?

a. Cómo estás

b. Hasta pronto

c. Adiós

d. Chao

2. How does one say ‘hello’ in Spanish?

a. Vale
b. Ok

c. Hola

d. Chao

3. What is the meaning of Adiós?

a. See you

b. Thank you

c. No

d. Bye bye

4. We use ‘gracias’ to

a. To say thankyou

b. To say goodbye

c. To say see you soon

d. To say hello

5. ‘Encantada/o’ means

a. Nice to meet you

b. How are you

c. I am fine

d. I am unwell

6. “Mucho gusto’ is used when

a. we want to say hello

b. to bid goodbye

c. we meet someone for the first time

d. we want to ask’ Can I come in?

7. Buenas Noches means

a. Goodnight

b. Good morning

c. Good evening

d. Good afternoon

8. Which is the letter that is silent in the Spanish alphabet?

a. b

b. t

c. h
d. s

9. How many letters does the Spanish alphabet contain?

a. 22

b. 24

c.21

d.26

10. What does ‘hasta pronto’ mean?

a. See you tomorrow

b. See you on Monday

c. See you soon

d. See you again