Year 10 - Spanish
Pensar en el futuro: extended writing
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 and extend your ideas when writing about the future.
Key Notes
- It is important to revisit vocabulary frequently to store it in your long-term memory.
- BORDER is a useful acronym to respond fully and accurately to bullet-point writing prompts.
- To develop written answers, you can add relevant information about another person or incorporate another time frame.
- You can extend written answers by adding an infinitive phrase, a relative clause, or a contrasting clause.
Vocabulary To Learn
- BORDER: extended writing acronym
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- When producing written work in Spanish, I should stick to short simple sentences.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
It is important to revisit vocabulary frequently to store it in your long-term memory. BORDER is a useful acronym to respond fully and accurately to bullet-point writing prompts.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'BORDER'
extended writing acronym. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: When producing written work in Spanish, I should stick to short simple sentences. Correction: When producing written work in Spanish, you should try to develop and extend your sentences to demonstrate grammatical complexity.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Entrevista a un actor de México: conditional Study Guide
- Intención o posibilidad: transcription and extended writing Study Guide
- Oportunidades: photo description and conversation practice 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: plural inflectional future Study Guide
- Yo que tú: singular and plural conditional Study Guide
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