¿Cómo ha cambiado tu barrio recientemente?

Lesson 5/5 out of Languages on a Plate’s module: Sustainable Living, which has a focus on the topic of environment in addition to being able to describe changes in your town/area.

This lesson builds on the knowledge from the previous 4 lessons in the module (which can be bought as a bundle), but it also introduces the Present Perfect Tense.

Learning intention: to express how your town has changed recently using the Present Perfect Tense

Learning outcomes:

• Recap of town vocabulary
• Introduction to the Present Perfect Tense
• Write how your town was, what they have done to change it, and what it is like now

*All exercises come with instructions in the “Notes” area.
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**Lesson includes:
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(Slide order)

1. Starter - double translation focusing on the Imperfect and Present Tenses in relation to town
2. Objectives
3. Town vocabulary game
4. Translation match up - Present Tense town vocabulary (to reinforce knowledge)
5. Grammar conversion of sentences in slide 4 into Imperfect Tense
6. Objectives recap
7. Grammar tense and time reference identifier
8. Introduce the Present Perfect with vocabulary
9. Explicit introduction to Present Perfect Tense (explanation) (until slide 21)
   10.Grammar gap fill - Present Perfect practice
10. Objectives
11. Translations using the Present Perfect (Sp to En, then En to Sp)
12. Pre-listening vocabulary (high-level vocabulary)
13. Reflexive verbs in Present Perfect note (before listening)
14. Listening activity with audio embedded
15. Reading activity - Present Perfect identification, vocabulary search and comprehension (who) questions
16. Objectives
17. Plenary - class modelled writing to the hinge question (title of the lesson)
18. YouTube closing video for added vocabulary and seeing all of the content together.

We also have a Quizlet vocabualry list for the content of the lesson in our Spanish Steps 3 Folder.