A day on the beach: La Playa (Juan Guinea Díaz)
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use what I know to work out unfamiliar vocabulary in an authentic text about a day on the beach.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- To pronounce words starting with [h] we ignore it and pronounce the vowel that follows.
- To identify the genre of a text focus on its key features. For example, rhyme, rhythm and verses suggest a poem.
- Adjectives mainly follow Spanish nouns and agree with them for gender and number.
- The surrounding words and grammar you know, and recognition of cognates, help you to work out unfamiliar word meanings.
Keywords
[h] - it is not pronounced in Spanish, as in 'hablar'
Genre - a type of something, e.g. text, music, film, or book
Adjective - word that gives information about a noun
Common misconception
There are no strategies I can use to understand words in a text; I either know them or I don't.
I can use several strategies to help me understand a text: I can use the surrounding words that I do know, I can use my knowledge of patterns, e.g. for adjectives, and I can use cognates.
Teacher tip
If teachers have a favourite poem to teach, they could easily adapt the lesson's structure and activities to exploit a text of their choice.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match this holiday vocabulary.
August
July
sea
holidays
to travel, traveling
Q2.In which word is the 'h' pronounced?
Q3.Which is not a type of text?
Q4.Which one is better?
Q5.Match these adverbs:
each
completely
during
usually
Q6.How do you say 'mountain' in Spanish?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these words has an 'h'?
Q2.Match these words:
sand
sky
sun
summer
Q3.Place these words in this order: 1. dad, 2. walk, 3. hair, 4. beach
Q4.How do you say 'watermelon' in Spanish.
Q5.Match these words with and without 'h':
hello
wave
there is/are
Auch!
Q6.It is better not to get stuck on an unfamiliar word, but to keep reading for the general meaning and ...
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