Study Hub

Study Guides

This pupil-friendly study guide includes a unit summary, clear notes, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.

Back to Study HubBrowse Year 11 Spanish Guides

Year 11 - Spanish

Planes de viaje: photo description, conversation practice

Communication and the world around us: lugares y personas famosos

Unit Summary

This unit furthers pupils' knowledge of the subjunctive. Pupils learn singular subjunctive forms of 'ir' and 'venir', and use the subjunctive after verbs of emotion and 'para que'. Pupils refresh and learn new impersonal verbs, and are introduced to adjectival phrases with 'lo' and an adjective.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to manipulate verbs to talk about the past, the present and the future, describe a photo and develop your answers in conversation about plans for a future trip.

Key Notes

  • Manipulating present, past and future verbs allows you to tell a story and describe events clearly and accurately.
  • Being able to switch between tenses helps to make your writing and speaking more interesting.
  • When describing a photo, use the acronym PALM. It stands for People, Action, Location, Mood.
  • It is helpful to predict follow-up questions on a theme for developing conversation after describing a photo.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • PALM: acronym to summarise what to include in a photo description: People, Action, Location, Mood

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • When developing a conversation about future travel plans, it is important to consistently use the future time frame in answers.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

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

Manipulating present, past and future verbs allows you to tell a story and describe events clearly and accurately. Being able to switch between tenses helps to make your writing and speaking more interesting.

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

acronym to summarise what to include in a 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 developing a conversation about future travel plans, it is important to consistently use the future time frame in answers. Correction: Whilst it is important to be able to refer to the future confidently, it is also helpful to add in different time frames to give more detail as well as opinions.

More Lessons In This Unit

Browse all guides in the Year 11 Spanish guide library.