Updated for September 2024-25
Lesson 8/10 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 physical descriptions (eyes, hair, tall/short, pretty/ugly) in Spanish so students can describe themselves and their friends/family. The lesson builds on the knowledge from the first seven lessons in the module, which taught them how to describe who is in their family and adjective agreements
Learning intention: to describe your physical appearance and your family members’ appearance
Learning outcomes:
- Learn the vocabulary for hair and eyes
- Recognise physical descriptions of different people (hair, eyes, height/weight)
- Write a short text describing your, or someone else’s, physical appearance
Lesson includes:
(Slide order)
- Starter - match up words (colours, ser, tener, opinions)
- Objectives
- Vocabulary - introduction to eye colour and hair colour
- Game - fastest finger first (teacher-led)
- Vocabulary - introduction to hairstyles
- Objectives
- Reading - match the descriptions with the pictures
- Listening - listen to descriptions of people’s hair and eyes
- Reading/Drawing - create a “se busca” poster for someone you’re looking for
- Above and beyond vocabulary - weight/height/beard/moustache/freckles, etc.
- Game - money-maker translation game
- Writing - write a description of the people in the images
- Writing - write a physical description of yourself
- Objectives
- Grammar - match up conjugated verbs
- Grammar - put the correct verb/adjective/noun in the space
- Translation - double translation
- Reading: find the appropriate vocabulary based on the context
- YouTube audiovisual vocabulary search
- Plenary - write a physical description of your family
We also have a Quizlet vocabualry list for the content of the lesson in our Spanish Steps 1 Folder.
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