¿Cómo te llamas? - Beginners Spanish First Lesson

**Updated for September 2024-25.
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Lesson 1/10 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 Spanish for the first time, teaching them the alphabet and how to say their name, culminating in being able to write a basic dialogue introducing 2 or more people.

Learning intention: to introduce yourself in Spanish

Learning outcomes:

• Know the greeting words and how to say your name in Spanish
• Know how to spell your name in Spanish
• Write a dialogue introducing 2 or more people

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

1. Starter - multiple choice fact-finder about the Spanish-speaking world
2. Objectives
3. Reading (with audio too) of a basic introduction dialogue
4. Extended dialgoue
5. Speaking drop-down guessing activity
6. YouTube video to hear and see in context
7. Vocabulary
8. Objectives
9. Alphabet phonics and audios (Spanish from Spain)
10. Popcorn tennis game for the alphabet (teacher-led)
11. Above and beyond vocabulary
12. Listening for spellings of names and teaching phonics
13. Writing - spelling out how to pronounce your name
14. Objectives
15. Plenary - writing a dialogue between 2 people

We also have a Quizlet vocabualry list for the content of the lesson in our Spanish Steps 1 Folder.