KS3 Spanish Cover Lesson Design Your own Castle

This works best as a cover lesson. It is easy for non-specialists to follow but supports and challenges KS3 students of Spanish well. Could also be adapted for use in lessons by specialists.

Students learn / revise key vocabulary related to town / house / and have opportunity to practice using connectives, opinions and more complex phrases.

Lesson involves: Differentiated objectives and starter activity.
Activity 1: Team / individual work to look up words in Spanish - all of which are displayed on ppt, that they could use to label and describe a castle or palace e.g. knights, ghosts, slides etc. The next slide contains the answers in English so they can write down whatever words they were unable to find. Activity is differentiated.
Activity 2: Differentiated translation task using castle vocabulary they looked up and recorded. Key words provided as well as higher challenge. Next slide contains answers for peer / self assessment.
Main activity 3 'apply' task: (differentiated) students design their own castle / palace in their books. Key words and higher challenges included.
Pyramid review to finish.