Viva 1 - Unit 1.6 - Writing Skills (revision)

A revision lesson on all the topics from Viva 1, Module 1. It also includes exercises to practise writing skills and a section for DIRT (Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time). This can easily be adapted to WWW/EBI or any other feedback system used by your school.

STARTER: students write down the six sentences in Spanish. Then, they write down the English translation including the missing word, which they need to come up with themselves. Extension: match up the sentence to the correct picture.

MINI-PLENARY - assessment for learning opportunity to check how confident students feel with translation.

TASK 1: reading activity linked to the outcome of the mini-plenary. Students answer six short questions after reading a paragraph in Spanish.

TASK 2: match-up translation task (questions using cómo, dónde, cuántos, cuándo, qué, cuál).

MINI-PLENARY - assessment for learning opportunity to check learning so far.

TASK 3: writing task answering four questions

DIRT - the rest of the lesson includes some writing support structures to guide students in answering the four questions from task 3.