Year 11

Talking about natural disasters (Part 2/2)

Year 11

Talking about natural disasters (Part 2/2)

These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Switch to our new teaching resources now - designed by teachers and leading subject experts, and tested in classrooms.

These resources were created for remote use during the pandemic and are not designed for classroom teaching.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will talk about natural disasters and use the imperfect continuous and preterite together to talk about events in the past.
  2. Purpose of language use. Talk about natural disasters
  3. Grammar. Present vs Imperfect continuou. Imperfect continuous vs preterite

Licence

This content is made available by Oak National Academy Limited and its partners and licensed under Oak’s terms & conditions (Collection 1), except where otherwise stated.

Loading...

Some of our videos, including non-English language videos, do not have captions.

Prior knowledge starter quiz

Download quiz pdf
Share with pupils

13 Questions

Q1.
To form the present continuous

Correct answer: use the present tense of the verb estar
use the present tense of the verb ser
use the present tense of the verb tener

Q2.
Use the present continuous to say

Correct answer: What is happening right now
what usually happens
what was happening

Q3.
Use the imperfect continuous for

Correct answer: an ongoing action which was happening right then
something you are going to do
something you did in the past

Q4.
To form the present and imperfect continuous, you follow the verb estar with

Correct answer: a verb ending in ando/iendo
a verb in the present tense
a verb in the preterite

Q5.
ahora mismo means

Correct answer: right now
same thing
same time

The next 7 questions cover some very common words you will need in Spanish in KS4. These words are very important because they give away or subtly change the meaning of a sentence. Select the correct meaning for each word. When you get your score, check your answers and write down any of these words that you didn't know.

Q7.
con qué frequencia

do you speak French?
Correct answer: how often?
what frequency?

Q8.
entre

Correct answer: between
enter
entrance

Q9.
tanto

fast
red (wine)
Correct answer: so much/ so many

Q10.
tan

Correct answer: as / so
brown
more

Q11.
menos

equal
Correct answer: less
more

Q12.
joven

old, old person
Thursday
Correct answer: young, young person

Q13.
cuál

how much?
when?
Correct answer: which?

13 Questions

Q1.
To talk about an ongoing action in the past, use the

imperfect
Correct answer: imperfect continuous
preterite

Q2.
To talk about something which suddenly happened, to interrupt an action in the past, use the

imperfect
perfect
Correct answer: preterite

Q3.
To join two clauses, one with imperfect continuous and one with preterite, you can use the word

Correct answer: cuando
que
quien

Q4.
Translate "I was driving"

Correct answer: estaba conduciendo
estoy conduciendo
estuve conduciendo

Q5.
Which two words fill the gaps in this sentence: Estaba ____ la radio cuando mi padre me ____.

escuchando, llamé
Correct answer: escuchando, llamó
escuché, llamó

The next 7 questions cover some very common words you will need in Spanish in KS4. These words are very important because they give away or subtly change the meaning of a sentence. Select the correct meaning for each word. When you get your score, check your answers and write down any of these words that you didn't know.

Q7.
poco

Correct answer: little / not very
lots / lots of
spot

Q8.
ahora

Correct answer: now
on time
when?

Q9.
nunca

Correct answer: never
no one
nothing

Q10.
antes

after
Correct answer: before
year

Q11.
nadie

never
Correct answer: no one
nothing

Q12.
ninguno

another one
Correct answer: nobody, none
nowhere

Q13.
todavía

already
not
Correct answer: still, yet