What’s on the Por & Para at a Glance poster
A 8-row table: Situation · Use · Example.
The quickest test for each common case.
- Purpose / goal — para — Estudio para aprender
- Reason / cause — por — Lo hice por ti
- Destination — para — Salgo para Madrid
- Movement through — por — Camino por el parque
- Deadline — para — Para el lunes
- Duration — por — Por dos horas
- Recipient — para — Es para ella
- Exchange — por — Diez euros por el libro
Gracias por is always por — you are thanking for a cause, not for a purpose.
Questions about the Por & Para at a Glance poster
- What’s on the Por & Para at a Glance poster?
- A 8-row table: Situation · Use · Example. The quickest test for each common case. Purpose / goal — para — Estudio para aprender; Reason / cause — por — Lo hice por ti; Destination — para — Salgo para Madrid; Movement through — por — Camino por el parque; Deadline — para — Para el lunes; Duration — por — Por dos horas; Recipient — para — Es para ella; Exchange — por — Diez euros por el libro. Gracias por is always por — you are thanking for a cause, not for a purpose.
- Who is the Por & Para at a Glance poster for?
- Por & Para at a Glance belongs to the Languages section rather than to a school year, because languages is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning spanish can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Por & Para at a Glance poster?
- If you could say 'in order to', it is para. If you could say 'because of', it is por. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Por & Para at a Glance belongs on the wall where that languages work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Por & Para at a Glance?
- Por vs Para, Spanish Accents and Adjective Agreement sit alongside Por & Para at a Glance in the Languages section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Por vs ParaSpanish AccentsAdjective Agreement
- Is the Por & Para at a Glance poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Por & Para at a Glance downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Languages section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Por & Para at a Glance poster print at?
- Por & Para at a Glance is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Por & Para at a Glance loses nothing.Printing guide
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