Lesson in the Present Tense for Christmas - activities can be split across multiple lessons and adapted for all levels in KS3.
Updated for 2024-25
Lesson 5/5 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 (ideal for Year 7).
This lesson reinforces students’ knowledge of regular Present Tense verb conjugation and teaches them vocabulary related to Spanish Christmas traditions.
Learning intention: to express how you normally celebrate Christmas
Learning outcomes:
- Recap regular verbs in the Present Tense
- Introduction to Christmas related vocabulary and traditions
- Write how you normally celebrate Christmas
Lesson order (slides):
- Starter - put the correct word in the spaces (present verbs, adjectives and nouns)
- Objectives
- Introduction to Christmas vocabulary (nouns)
- Vocabulary match up, verbs related to the nouns in the previous set of nouns
- Game - fastest finger first (teacher-led)
- Recap of Present Tense
- Recap of boot/stem-changing verbs
- Verb conjugation wheel game
- Grammar conjugation
- Game - battleships
- Reading - true v false + vocabulary search/reinforcement
- Objectives
- Listening - 3 people and their Christmas opinions
- Writing - sentence starters for what people do on some of the key Christmas dates
- Audiovisual - reinforce Christmas listening, introduce to new vocabulary
- Plenary - answer how you celebrate Christmas
We also have a Quizlet vocabulary list for the content of the lesson in our Spanish Steps 1 Folder.
We also have a Quizlet vocabulary list for the content of the lesson in our Spanish Steps 1 Folder.
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