The passive form

A full lesson based around foods introducing the passive form.

The lesson includes a recap slide to get the pupils thinking about food vocabulary and quantities while the class settles.

It continues with a fun video on traditional Spanish food; the students have to answer 3 questions based on the video.

Following is a slide on tips for tackling reading tasks, and a reading tasks that the pupils will work on independently on in pairs. This text includes the passive form which is then clearly explained in the next slides, including a recap of the present tense of ser and how to form past participles.

Now that the pupils should be able to recognise the passive form, they are asked to do so with the previous reading task’s text. Following this, they will tackle some Spanish to English translations (and an English to Spanish one for higher achievers) to put their skills to the test.

The finally activity is a speaking/writing task to get the pupils talking about their favourite food without mentioning the name; the classmates will have to guess which food it is.