Planes de viaje: photo description, conversation practice
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can manipulate verbs to talk about the past, the present and the future, describe a photo and develop my answers in conversation about plans for a future trip.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- 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.
Keywords
PALM - acronym to summarise what to include in a photo description: People, Action, Location, Mood
Common misconception
When developing a conversation about future travel plans, it is important to consistently use the future time frame in answers.
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.
Teacher tip
Repeating speaking activities such as the photo description and conversation again immediately, once or more times, will help improve fluency and deepen knowledge.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.'Los museos están __________.' Choose the correct adjective.
Q2.Which verbs are in the subjunctive?
Q3.Match the Spanish and English.
you only have to speak
it is necessary to speak
we, you, I still need to speak
I spoke
I speak
to speak, speaking
Q4.Match the Spanish and English.
happiness, joy
synagogue
smile
season
expenses
hill(s), mountain
Q5.Order the words to say: 'the change has not been very positive'.
Q6.Write in Spanish: 'we would prefer'.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.You are taking part in a conversation about future travel plans. Which piece of advice is incorrect?
Q2.Which question is linked to the topic of 'travel and tourism'?
Q3.Order the statements according to the acronym PALM.
Q4.Match the Spanish and English.
I am playing
I have played
I used to play, I was playing
I would play
I will play
I am going to play
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