How it works
This bilingual word wall has 96 school words with English and Spanish on the same face, such as door / la puerta. Every noun carries el or la, and the back gives a short phrase in both languages.
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Eight sets of school words
The page opens on Classroom things: desk, chair, door, window and eight more. The other sets are Places in the school, Math words, Science words, Days and time, What the teacher says, Feelings and People at school. Feeling words show both endings, as in cansado, cansada.
Labels to tape where the thing is
Choose a set under Show only and press Print 12 labels: one sheet of twelve 60 mm squares. Tape door / la puerta to the door and clock / el reloj under the clock. Print 12 cards adds a sheet of phrases for the backs.
- El agua and el aula are feminine words that take el. In the plural they are las aguas and las aulas.
- What the teacher says speaks to the whole class, so the Spanish uses the ustedes form: escuchen, miren, lean.
- People come in pairs of cards: el maestro and la maestra, el alumno and la alumna.
Questions and answers
What is a bilingual word wall?
A set of classroom words shown in two languages at once. Here each card carries the English word and the Spanish word on the same face, so every pupil reads the same label.
Why does every Spanish noun have el or la?
A Spanish noun is masculine or feminine, and the article shows which: el libro, la puerta. Learning the two together saves relearning later. Two feminine words here, agua and aula, take el.
Which Spanish do the cards use?
Where countries differ, the word two dictionaries give for Latin America, such as enojado for angry. A board is la pizarra here; in Mexico and Argentina many say el pizarrón. Add the word your families use beside ours.