The first thing to do is read the instructions carefully to understand what to do.

This activity is about the story “La Pobreza”, by María Luisa Góngora Pacheco, Mayan writer, where death is personified.A.- Look at the title of the reading and the four drawings on pages

You will need to read the textbook, pp. 238 – 240.

This one is about demonstrative pronouns,

They take the place of nouns and must agree in gender and number with the nouns they replace.

They always have written accent marks, with some exceptions (we will take a look at them in step 4).

Let´s take a look at them:

|Spanish | Gender/Number |English|Position |
|–|–|–|–|
Éste, ésta|Masc. / Fem. Singular |This | Near you |
|Ése, ésa| Masc. / Fem. Singular |That |Near the person you´re speaking with | | |
| Aquél, aquélla|Masc. / Fem. Singular |That |Far away | | |
|Éstos, éstas| Masc. / Fem. Plural |These | Near you | | |
|Ésos, ésas |Masc. / Fem. Plural| Those | Near the person you´re speaking with | | |
|Aquéllos, aquéllos |Masc. / Fem. Plural |Those |Far away | | |

In Spanish, when we refer to something that has yet or has been mentioned, we must use one of the three demonstrative pronouns that do not have gender or number. They are: **eso, esto, aquello**.
|Spanish |English |
|–|–|
|Eso |That | |
|Esto| This| |
|Aquello |That (thing over there) | |

**These pronouns are *neutral* and don`t have accent marks and never are located before a noun**.

C.- In this chapter, you learned about demonstrative pronouns. Look at the following sentence from the reading and circle the demonstrative pronoun. Then, underline the word in the sentence that the demonstrative pronoun replaces (we will put them in bold).

*En la puerta de su casa había sembrado una mata de huaya, y ésta le daba frutos todo el año*.
**ésta** is a demonstrative pronoun for a feminine, singular noun.
**huaya** is the feminine, singular noun that *ésta* is replacing.
The answer is:
*En la puerta de su casa había sembrado una mata de **huaya**, y **ésta** le daba frutos todo el año*.