Sing along: A traditional Spanish song

Los pollitos dicen is a traditional Spanish song about a mother hen caring for her chicks.

You can learn the words in Spanish with this fun video:

The ‘ll’ grapheme

In Spanish a double ‘ll’ sound is pronounced as a 'y'.

Here are some examples of how this sound is used in the song:

• Los pollitos - the chicks

• La gallina - the hen

What did you hear?

You might have recognised some key words and phrases in the song.

Now see how many you can remember from the table below:

Feminine and masculine nouns

In Spanish there are feminine and masculine nouns.

You may have spotted that the article that comes before the noun is determined by the noun itself.

For example, if a noun ends with a, eg la gallina, it's feminine so we use la.

Masculine nouns normally end in an o or an e, eg el pollito.

Remember the plural for el is los and the plural for la is las.

Check out these examples of nouns from the song and see if you can decide whether they are masculine or feminine:

• los pollitos - the chicks

• el trigo - the wheat