Content
Spanish speaking activities:
• Find someone who
• From memory: Translate into Spanish
• Oral Ping Pong
• Faster
• Fluency Cards
• Conversation: Communicative Drills
Teachers can use these activities in different order, or pick and choose your favourites, based on your students’ needs.
Starting with a Find someone who (that might need adapted to the school timetable), then an oral translation task in pairs to retrieve the vocabulary, then to gamify the classroom students play Oral Ping Pong, Faster and Fluency Cards that really brings the competition out, to end with a scaffolded conversation task.
These activities are to be used after the students are very familiar with the vocabulary. I am following the Viva 1 Book, so if you use Viva for KS3 Spanish you might find the same vocabulary.
¿Qué haces para estar en forma? What do you do to keep fit?
Follows the vocabulary from year 9 viva book.
Sentence builder activities:
Choral repetition.
Using mini whiteboards:
Translations L1 – L2 / L2 – L1 word level / sentence level.
Finish my word.
Finish my sentence.
‘Algo’ game.
Bingo
Mind reader.
Plus the activities made with the Sentencebuilders website match up, gap fill, jumble.
I have used the Sentencebuilders website to create the Sentence builders in this PowerPoint and all the tasks used here.
Lesson 1 is a retrieval practice of school subjects.
There are a few sentence builders with part of the translation or without translation for the students to retrieve the vocabulary, you can use mini whiteboards for this.
Listening adapted from year 7 viva Mod 3 text book, transcrip available so if you don’t have access to the online resource, the teacher can read the transcript that also is exploited in the reading task. ANSWERS in the PPT.
The lesson will end with an speaking practice.
Lesson 2 : Extra tasks after the first lesson about ¿Cuál es tu día favorito? and school subjects.
Contains:
Starter
2 options of fill gaps
pyramid translation
substitution task
2 reading task
sentence chaos (if students haven’t done this one before we can do it together)
Most of the ANSWERS are the PPT.
Booklet: My family, my physical description and others and my pets. Mi Familia, descripción física y mi mascota
This booklet is about the vocabulary list in Spanish to say if you have sibblings, how many people are in your family, describing yourself and others (physical description: hair, eyes and personality). Also, include the pets.
Structure:
1 page with the list of the main vocabulary.
about 8 sentence builders to talk about:
¿Tienes hermanos o hermanas? [ do you have brothers or sisters/siblings]
¿Cuántas personas hay en tu familia? [ How many people are there in your family? ]
¿De qué color tienes los ojos? [What colour are your eyes?]
¿Cómo tienes el pelo? [What’s your hair like?]
¿De qué color tiene los ojos? [What colour are his/her eyes?]
¿Cómo tiene el pelo? [What’s his/her hair like?]
¿Cómo eres? [what are you like?]
¿Cómo es? [What is he/she like?]
¿Tienes mascotas? Do you have pets?
LOOK/SAY/COVER/WRITE/CHECK task for all the vocabulary list.
Practice Pages – Writing Task plus retrieval tasks using match up, fill gaps and clocks.
Booklet: Greetings, birthday and school bag. Hola, mi cumpleaños y mi mochila
This booklet is about the vocabulary in Spanish to greet people, talk about your birthday and say what you got in your school bag.
Structure:
1 page with the list of the main vocabulary.
about 7 sentence builders to talk about:
Spanish Student Classroom Vocabulary
Greeting Conversación [Conversation]
¿Cuántos años tienes? [How old are you?]
¿Cuál es la fecha? [what is the date?]
¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños? [When is your birthday?]
¿Qué tienes en tu mochila? [What do you have in your school bag?] x2
LOOK/SAY/COVER/WRITE/CHECK task for all the vocabulary list
Practice Pages – Writing Task Unit 1 Hola, mi cumpleaños y mi mochila plus retrieval tasks using match up, fill gaps and clocks.
¿Cuál es tu día favorito? school subject lesson 2 year 7 Viva Mod 3
Extra tasks after the first lesson about ¿Cuál es tu día favorito? and school subjects.
Contains:
Starter
2 options of fill gaps
pyramid translation
substitution task
2 reading task
sentence chaos (if students haven’t done this one before we can do it together)
Most of the ANSWERS are the PPT.
Cuál es tu día favorito? school subject lesson 1 year 7 Viva Mod 3
Retrieval Practice:
Contains a series of activities for student to retrieve the vocabulary from previous lessons where they learned the school subjects.
For extra practice there are a few sentence builders with part of the translation or the full translation missing for the students to retrieve the vocabulary, you can use mini whiteboards for this.
Listening adapted from the year 7 viva Mod 3 text book, transcrip available so if you don’t have access to the online resource, the teacher can read the transcript that also is exploited in the reading task. ANSWERS in the PPT.
The lesson will end with an speaking practice.
¿Qué estudias?
What do you study?
School subjects - Las asignaturas
Days of the week - los días de la semana
Verbs: estudio, estudiamos
Me gustaría estudiar
These 3 lessons follow the Year 7 Viva Module 3 ¿Qué estudias?
Contains sentence builders to scaffold learning activities.
Lesson 1:
Contains listening as modelling activities and a variety of mini whiteboard tasks.
Lesson 2:
Includes reading as modelling, mini whiteboard tasks.
Lesson 3:
Focus on writing, and includes tasks to prepare students for the writing task, like reading, change 1 detail using mini whiteboards and I do, we do, you do.
Qué estudias Lesson 3 Sentence builders Viva Module 3 Spanish
Skill: Writing.
This lesson is going to be delivered after students have had enough time to practise the vocabulary using different modelling tasks and listening and reading activities.
The Powerpoint lesson contains:
Reading and pyramid translation to retrieve the vocabulary. Also, use this tasks as model for the writing.
Mini whiteboard activities: Change 1 detail. To prepare students for the writing task.
1 guided writing tasks and 1 I do, we do, you do writing task.
Main vocabulary:
days of the week
estudio, estudiamos, no estudiamos, me gustaría estudiar
school subjects (las asignaturas)
This is a lesson 3 to follow up learning about the school subjects. The objective of this lesson is for students to retrieve vocabulary, be exposed to different writing models and be the end to do their own writig task.
Qué estudias Lesson 2 Sentence builders year 7 Viva Module 3 Spanish
Skill: reading and translation
The Powerpoint lesson contains:
Sentence builder
Fill gap
Spot the mistake
Mini whiteboard activities:
Translate into Spanish / English
-Finish my word / Sentence
2 main listening activities
Speaking battleship
Sentence stealers
Short conversation in Spanish
Pyramid translation
Exit ticket
Main vocabulary:
days of the week
estudiamos, no estudiamos, me gustaría estudiar
school subjects (las asignaturas)
This is a lesson 2 to follow learning about the school subjects and using the first person plural. In this lesson students will use mini whiteboards to complete most of the actitivies or all of them, so the teacher can give an instant feedback to the students, check progress and work in lesson and do lots of modelling tasks and listening activities. So, students will get lots of input that will allow students to be more confidents for the next lesson.
Qué estudias Lesson 1 Sentence builders year 7 Viva Module 3 Spanish Las asignaturas
Modelling the new vocabulary.
The Powerpoint lesson contains:
Mini whiteboard activities:
Translate into Spanish / English
-Finish my word / Sentence
2 main listening activities
Bingo
Mind reader
Sentence stealers
Main vocabulary:
days of the week
estudio, no estudio, me gustaría estudiar
school subjects (las asignaturas)
This is a lesson 1 to Intro the school subjects. In this lesson students will use mini whiteboards to complete most of the actitivies or all of them, so the teacher can give an instant feedback to the students, check progress and work in lesson and do lots of modelling tasks and listening activities. So, students will get lots of input that will allow students to be more confidents for the next lesson.
Sports. Deportes. Lesson to practice when to use juego y hago.
Power point with vocabulary to drill pronunciation and when to use juego or hago, sentence builders to practice translation and reading worksheet.
Reading worksheet ready to print, answers in the power point.
Los deportes. Sports. Reading task.
Power point presentation plus reading worksheet.
This lesson would be better used as a second lesson after introducing the sports in Spanish.
Sentence Builder, Bad translation and sentence stealer activities to practice the vocabulary before students do the reading worksheet as an independent practice.
Worksheet ready to print and the answers are in the power point.
Los deportes Sports good images to use to practice pronunciation. Then, for the next activities we will use Sentence Builders. There are explanations on how to use the Sentence Builders and suggested activities. Focus on giving opinions.
Qué vas a hacer?
What are you going to do? Qué vas a hacer? year 7 Viva 1 Module 5 Unit 4 pag 104 Edexcel.
Starter revision present tense
Near Future Tense explanation
Translation activity + Challenge
Reading + Extension activity
Find the Spanish for + Challenge
Translation using third person singular (Plenary)
all answers included
En la cafetería In the cafe
13 food Spanish items. Bebidas y comida. Year 7. Viva 1 Mi ciudad Module 5.
Introducing the vocabulary.
Matching food with prices.
Questions How to order food
Speaking practice lead by the teacher
2 listening activities
Speaking activity in pairs
2 options for plenary Or you can use it as starter for next lesson
Qué haces en la ciudad? What do you do in town?
Year 7 Mi Ciudad Module 5 - 2 Viva1. This is a follow up lesson for students that have already seen the time and the vocabulary for qué haces en la ciudad?
Includes:
Stater is a translation.
Then a fun mini whiteboard activity.
Speaking in pairs.
Reading and finding the activities plus challenge.
Writing a presentation.
Idea for homework.
Qué haces en la ciudad? What do you do in town? year 7. Module Mi Ciudad.
This lesson starts with some activities to practise telling the time in Spanish, as this would be the challenge at the end of the lesson.
Digital and analogue clocks are used.
Then, a vocabulary translation activity, follow with a memory exercise to retrieve the vocab using colourful images.
There is a listening activity you can use if you have access to Viva1.
Finally, an speaking activity, challenge to add the time.
Also, contains 2 option for homework.
Qué hora es? What time is it?
Lesson explaining students how to say the time in Spanish.
Lots of exercises to practise using mini whiteboards
Include handouts to print to practise during lesson or as homework.
Completing the time (first activity)
Mini whiteboard exercises
Handouts to practise (Could be use as homework)
Listening activity (Match up or writing the missing word)
Eyes, hair and what is your house or flat like? Revision
Ojos, pelo and cómo es tu casa o tu piso? This is a revision for eyes, hair and what is your house or flat like?
This an excellent lesson to revise hair and eyes using mini whiteboards and then giving the opportunity for students to practise speaking.
End of Module 4 Mi famililia y mis amigos. Revision. Edexcel Viva 1. Year 7.
Vocabulary revision and use of tengo, tiene, es and vivo.
Activities: Mini whiteboard and speaking.