¿Qué haces en tu tiempo libre? - Spanish Beginners

Updated for 2024-25

Lesson 1/5 out of Languages on a Plate’s second beginner module 1.2: Passions and Pastimes, which is centred around building on the basics for Spanish beginners (perfect for Year 7), and follows on from Module 1.1 All About Me

This lesson reinforces students’ knowledge of regular present tense verb conjugation in Spanish and teaches them vocabulary to describe the base hobbies they could do in their free time. The lesson builds on the knowledge from the 10 lessons in module 1.1 All About Me, which taught them the core regular verb conjugation and how to introduce themselves.

Learning intention: to express what hobbies you have and how often you do them

Learning outcomes:

• Re-cap how to conjugate regular verbs in the Present Tense
• Learn vocabulary for common hobbies (in the infinitive and “yo” forms)
• Express what hobbies you have and how often you do them

Lesson includes:
(Slide order)

Starter - put the correct verb/piece of vocabulary in the spaces based on the subject/subject pronoun
Objectives
Stop and drop recap of the Present Tense conjugations
Recap of the Present
Objectives
Vocabulary introduction - hobby verbs in the infinitive and “yo” forms
Game - fastest finger first
Reading - read someone’s hobbies and pick out new words based on context and prior knowledge _ comprehension
Reading - vocab search and true v false comprehension
Pre-listening time reference
Listening - listen for what activities people do and don’t do
Objectives
Vocabulary - days of the week
Grammar - Present Tense verb conjugation
Reading - comprehension
Grammar - avoid misunderstanding
Vocabulary - time references
Translation - Spanish to English then English to Spanish
Audiovisual - extra context
Objectives
Plenary - what you do in your free time writing

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