RT bachelor thesis T1 Problems, theory and practice of verb to be and its Spanish counterparts: Teaching Spanish ser/estar to English speakers through advertisements. A1 Delgado Panal, Ana María A2 Filología Francesa e Inglesa K1 ser K1 estar K1 Spanish L2 K1 copulative verbs K1 English-speaking learners K1 verb To Be K1 English-Spanish structural differences K1 contrastive studies K1 español L2 K1 verbos copulativos K1 enseñanza angloparlantes K1 verbo To Be K1 diferencias entre inglés y español K1 estudios contrastivos AB Ser and Estar are two Spanish copulative verbs, very used in Cervantes’ language, and which indicate different actions, since while ser is mainly used to talk about identity, estar is used to talk about states. This seems to be easy, but things get a little more complicated when English students have to face the rest of uses of ser and estar, since they get mixed many often and students have not clear for what they use one verb or another, producing this way frustrations on pupils.These problems, together with others, as it is the case of adjectives use with both verbs and with passive voice, will be studied in this work widely. Besides, we will comment on the main five methods and approaches we can find when teaching Spanish as a second language (L2), which will be helpful at the time of posing our original teaching proposal about adverts. This one will be useful to teach the uses of ser and estar appropriately and thus, to solve the possible doubts and make the class more fun and enjoyable. YR 2018 FD 2018-09-18 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/20786 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/20786 LA eng DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 10-may-2026