Updated for September 2024-25
Lesson 6/10 out of Languages on a Plate’s beginner module: All About Me, which is centred around teaching the basics for Spanish beginners (perfect for Year 7).
This lesson introduces students to personality traits in Spanish and focuses on the verb "ser" so they can describe themselves and other people. The lesson builds on the knowledge from the first five lessons in the module, which taught them how to describe who is in their family.
Learning intention: to describe your personality and your family members' personalities in Spanish
Learning outcomes:
- Learn the vocabulary for personality traits
- Understand how adjectives change based on gender and plural status
- Write a short text describing what your family members; personalities are like
Lesson includes:
(Slide order)
- Starter - put the words in the correct order
- Objectives
- Vocabulary - introduction to personality traits
- Game - fastest finger first - teacher-led
- Vocabulary - further personality traits
- Game - class vs teacher teacher-led
- Game - get across the board
- Objectives
- Reading comprehension of dialogue
- Translation of sentences in pairs
- Speaking - practise describing yourself with the verb "ser"
- Reading comprehension and introduction to new vocabulary
- Grammar - think, pair, share about adjective agreement
- Grammar - explicit agreements for adjectives related to personality traits
- Grammar - choose the correct adjective in the context
- Grammar - fill out the rest of the table based on the prior knowledge and what is on the board
- Translation - focus on vocabulary and adjective agreement
- Objectives
- Grammar - explicit introduction to the verb "ser" in the Present
- Grammar + Reading - put the correct word in the space
- Listening - write what the people's personalities are like
- Writing - write what your family members' personalities are like
- YouTube - listen out for comprehension of content
- Plenary - write about yourself and your family based on the knowledge up to now.
We also have a Quizlet vocabualry list for the content of the lesson in our Spanish Steps 1 Folder.
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