Updated for September 2024-25 Lesson 8/10 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 physical descriptions (eyes, hair, tall/short, pretty/ugly) in Spanish so students can describe themselves and their friends/family. The lesson builds on the knowledge from the first seven lessons in the module, which taught them how to describe who is in their family and adjective agreements Learning intention: to describe your physical appearance and your family members’ appearance Learning outcomes: Learn the vocabulary for hair and eyes Recognise physical descriptions of different people (hair, eyes, height/weight) Write a short text describing your, or someone else’s, physical appearance Lesson includes: (Slide order) Starter - match up words (colours, ser, tener, opinions) Objectives Vocabulary - introduction to eye colour and hair colour Game - fastest finger first (teacher-led) Vocabulary - introduction to hairstyles Objectives Reading - match the descriptions with the pictures Listening - listen to descriptions of people’s hair and eyes Reading/Drawing - create a “se busca” poster for someone you’re looking for Above and beyond vocabulary - weight/height/beard/moustache/freckles, etc. Game - money-maker translation game Writing - write a description of the people in the images Writing - write a physical description of yourself Objectives Grammar - match up conjugated verbs Grammar - put the correct verb/adjective/noun in the space Translation - double translation Reading: find the appropriate vocabulary based on the context YouTube audiovisual vocabulary search Plenary - write a physical description of your family We also have a Quizlet vocabualry list for the content of the lesson in our Spanish Steps 1 Folder.

Updated for September 2024-25 Lesson 7/10 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 colours in Spanish and to verbs of opinion so students can give their opinion on colours. The lesson builds on the knowledge from the first six lessons in the module, which taught them how to describe who is in their family ad to describe themselves (personality). Learning intention: to learn colours and core verbs of opinion in Spanish Learning outcomes: Learn the vocabulary for colours Learn the vocabulary for opinions Write a short text saying what your favourite colour is Lesson includes: (Slide order) Starter - put the words in the spaces based on context (adjectives and ser conjugations) Objectives Vocabulary introduction - colours Game - class vs teacher colour vocabulary (teacher-led) Game - confusion (colours v words) Objectives Reading - comprehension to pick out set phrase for saying your favourite colour Vocabulary introduction - verbs of opinion Grammar - agreeing/disagreeing opinions with someone Listening - listen to people’s opinions on colours Reading about people’s opinions on colours Objectives YouTube audiovisual reinforcement Writing - write people’s opinions of colours based on the images Plenary - write what your favourite colour is We also have a Quizlet vocabualry list for the content of the lesson in our Spanish Steps 1 Folder.

Learning intention: to describe where your home is Learning outcomes: Recap of verbs of opinion Learn vocabulary related to houses Write about where your house is All exercises come with instructions in the “Notes” area. Lesson includes: Written texts Recorded audio for listening Video with listening activity

Learning intention: to discover holidays in the Spanish-speaking world and mix past, present and future holiday experiences Learning outcomes: Recap of Preterite (including pretérito grave and “ir”) Learn irregular verbs: ver and dar Write about an experience in a Spanish-speaking country *All exercises come with instructions in the “Notes” area. * **Lesson includes: ** Written texts Recorded audio for listening Video with listening activity

Learning intention: to learn how to say which subjects you study and give your opinion about them Learning outcomes: Recap verbs of opinion and consolidate knowledge of how they work Learn vocabulary for school subjects Give your opinion on school subjects *All exercises come with instructions in the “Notes” area. * Lesson includes: Written texts Recorded audio for listening Video with listening activity Order of slides: Starter - recap vocabulary agreements with verbs of opinion and verbs Objectives Introduction to subject vocabulary Game - class versus teacher on subject vocabulary Think, pair, share on verbs of opinion Recap of verbs of opinion Translation of verbs of opinion sentences related to school subjects Objectives Reading (vocabulary and true or false comprehension) Vocabulary - introduction to adjective cognates and other common adjectives associated with school subjects Recap of adjective agreements Explicit adjective agreements Agree with adjectives based on gender and plurality Listening - what subjects they like/dislike Correct the verbs of opinion sentences Figure out the sentences based on their first letter Audiovisual reinforcement Plenary - write what subjects you like and why

Practice paper for the IGCSE Reading, Writing and Grammar. Perfect revision for extra practice before the exam. For extra detail in how to tackle this paper, please check out our IGCSE exam advice documents.

**Learning intention: **to describe what is in your town Learning outcomes: Recap of house vocabulary Introduction to types of shop and places in town Describe what you like and don’t like in your town *All exercises come with instructions in the “Notes” area. * Lesson includes: Written texts Recorded audio for listening Video with listening activity

Annotated example listening paper for the Spanish IGCSE. Document comes with a clean version of a practice question for each type so that your pupils can practise more. Audio files attached.

Annotated example reading paper for the Spanish IGCSE. Document comes with a clean version of a practice question for each type so that your pupils can practise more.

Example questions and tips to achieve strong marks in the speaking assessment for IGCSE Spanish.