¿Qué tal? - Beginners Spanish

**Updated for September 2024-25. 
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Lesson 2/10 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 express how they are in Spanish (basic responses e.g. “fenomenal”, “genial”, “estupendo”, etc.). It builds on the knowledge from the first lesson in the module “¿Cómo te llamas?”, which taught them how to say and spell their name.

Learning intention: to express how you are in Spanish

Learning outcomes:

• Remember the greeting words and how to introduce yourself in Spanish
• Learn the different ways to express how you are in Spanish
• Write a dialogue between 2 people to express how they are

Lesson includes:

(Slide order)

1. Starter - recap match-up on introduction vocabulary from the first lesson
2. Objectives
3. Introduction to vocabulary for how they are
4. Game - class vs teacher (teacher-led)
5. Game - fastest finger first (teacher-led)
6. Reading comprehension to pick out core words for how someone is
7. Objectives
8. Match up questions and responses with images
9. YouTube video for further audiovisual comprehension
10. Listening - name and how they are
11. Plenary - write a dialogue of how 2 or more people are

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