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Year 11 - Spanish

Nos vamos de viaje: role-play

My personal world: relaciones

Unit Summary

This unit introduces new forms of possessive adjectives as a post-verbal complement, and new forms of possessive pronouns with agreement for gender and number for singular and plural possessors. Pupils also learn the reflexive use of plural forms of pronouns including with a reciprocal function.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to respond to a range of travel-based role-plays.

Key Notes

  • It is important to respond to role-play prompts with a short phrase or sentence.
  • Interrogatives can be used to ask questions in a role-play scenario.
  • Useful interrogatives in Spanish are: '¿cuándo?', '¿cómo?', '¿dónde?', '¿cuánto?', '¿qué?' and '¿hay?'.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • modal verb: verb of necessity or possibility used with a 2nd verb in the infinitive, e.g. 'must', 'can', 'want'
  • interrogative: word used to ask a question

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • I should give long, developed answers to role-play prompts.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.

It is important to respond to role-play prompts with a short phrase or sentence. Interrogatives can be used to ask questions in a role-play scenario.

2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'modal verb'

verb of necessity or possibility used with a 2nd verb in the infinitive, e.g. 'must', 'can', 'want'. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.

3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.

Mistake: I should give long, developed answers to role-play prompts. Correction: It is not necessary to give long, developed answers to role-play prompts. It is best to respond using a short phrase or sentence.

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