Updated for 2024-25
Lesson 1/5 out of Languages on a Plate’s second beginner module 1.2: Passions and Pastimes, which is centred around building on the basics for Spanish beginners (perfect for Year 7), and follows on from Module 1.1 All About Me
This lesson reinforces students’ knowledge of regular present tense verb conjugation in Spanish and teaches them vocabulary to describe the base hobbies they could do in their free time. The lesson builds on the knowledge from the 10 lessons in module 1.1 All About Me, which taught them the core regular verb conjugation and how to introduce themselves.
Learning intention: to express what hobbies you have and how often you do them
Learning outcomes:
- Re-cap how to conjugate regular verbs in the Present Tense
- Learn vocabulary for common hobbies (in the infinitive and “yo” forms)
- Express what hobbies you have and how often you do them
Lesson includes:
(Slide order)
- Starter - put the correct verb/piece of vocabulary in the spaces based on the subject/subject pronoun
- Objectives
- Stop and drop recap of the Present Tense conjugations
- Recap of the Present
- Objectives
- Vocabulary introduction - hobby verbs in the infinitive and “yo” forms
- Game - fastest finger first
- Reading - read someone’s hobbies and pick out new words based on context and prior knowledge _ comprehension
- Reading - vocab search and true v false comprehension
- Pre-listening time reference
- Listening - listen for what activities people do and don’t do
- Objectives
- Vocabulary - days of the week
- Grammar - Present Tense verb conjugation
- Reading - comprehension
- Grammar - avoid misunderstanding
- Vocabulary - time references
- Translation - Spanish to English then English to Spanish
- Audiovisual - extra context
- Objectives
- Plenary - what you do in your free time writing
We also have a Quizlet vocabualry list for the content of the lesson in our Spanish Steps 1 Folder.
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