Pensar en el futuro: plural inflectional future
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use singular and plural forms of the inflectional future to discuss career aspirations.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- It is important to have a good knowledge of sound-spelling correspondences to accurately read aloud Spanish texts.
- It is a good idea to mentally rehearse a text before reading it aloud.
- The inflectional future expresses what 'will' happen and 'voy a + infinitive' expresses what is 'going to' happen.
- Plural conjugations of the inflectional future are formed by adding the endings -emos, -éis or -án to the infinitive.
- 'Saber', 'querer', 'venir', 'decir', 'salir' have irregular future stems: 'sabr-', 'querr-', 'vendr-', 'dir-', 'saldr-'.
Keywords
Sound-symbol correspondence - relationship between letters and their sounds
Inflectional future - 1-verb structure used to say what will happen in the future
Voy a + infinitive - 2-verb structure used to say what is going to happen in the future
Common misconception
The inflectional future communicates what is 'going to' happen.
The inflectional future communicates what 'will' happen. 'Voy a + infinitive' communicates what is 'going to' happen.
Teacher tip
Learning Cycle 3 contains Higher Tier grammar and vocabulary. To increase scaffolding for Task C1, you could consider brainstorming relevant verbs before setting students off on their writing.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which nouns are feminine?
Q2.'Vivo aquí cinco años.' Choose the correct missing word or phrase.
Q3.Match the Spanish and English.
adventure
recycling
temperature
heating
roadworks, building works
leaf
Q4.Order the words to say: 'some students arrived but none completed the homework'.
Q5.Write in English: 'la contaminación destruye el jardín'.
Q6.Write in Spanish: 'I know that you have a date'.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.It is a good idea to mentally rehearse a text before you ...
Q2.Match the sounds with the Spanish word they appear in.
I want
garden
war
morning
neighbourhood
leaf
Q3.Match the Spanish and English.
I will be
you will be
she, he, it will be
we will be
you all will be
they will be
Q4.Which sentence means 'I will go to the beach'?
Q5.Order the words to say: 'my sister will go out and her friend will know'.
Q6.Write in Spanish: 'they will say and we will come'. Do not use any pronouns.
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