Year 10 - Spanish
Oportunidades: photo description and conversation practice
People and lifestyle: mi futuro y mis modelos a seguir
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils revisit the inflectional future tense, including some irregular stems. Pupils revisit 'quisiera' and 'me/te/le gustaría' and learn how to form the conditional tense with regular verbs and some irregular verbs.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to develop spoken responses when describing photos and answering conversation questions about work and education.
Key Notes
- The PALM acronym is a useful tool to include a range of information when describing photos.
- When describing photos in Spanish, it is important to plan extended answers to talk for a prolonged period of time.
- When responding to conversation questions in Spanish, it is important to develop answers with 2-3 clauses.
Vocabulary To Learn
- PALM: acronym for photo description (people, action, location, mood)
- clause: a whole or part of a sentence that includes a subject and verb
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- When responding to conversation questions, it will suffice to give one-word answers.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
The PALM acronym is a useful tool to include a range of information when describing photos. When describing photos in Spanish, it is important to plan extended answers to talk for a prolonged period of time.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'PALM'
acronym for photo description (people, action, location, mood). Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: When responding to conversation questions, it will suffice to give one-word answers. Correction: Conversation answers should be consistently developed with 2-3 clauses. One-word answers are not enough.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Entrevista a un actor de México: conditional Study Guide
- Intención o posibilidad: transcription and extended writing Study Guide
- Oportunidades: singular conditional, 'quisiera', 'me gustaría' Study Guide
- Oportunidades: uses and omission of definite and indefinite articles Study Guide
- Pensar en el futuro - entrevista a Camilo: singular inflectional future Study Guide
- Pensar en el futuro: extended writing Study Guide
- Pensar en el futuro: plural inflectional future Study Guide
- Yo que tú: singular and plural conditional Study Guide
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