Year 11

Guided Writing: Higher: Unit 6: Special Events

Year 11

Guided Writing: Higher: Unit 6: Special Events

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will explore a Higher Paper style GCSE writing question on the topic of Spanish festivals before co-constructing a written answer and completing our own independent writing at the end of this lesson. We will also practise vocabularly connected to special events and the grammar strucures we need for our writing.
  2. Purpose of language use. Repaso
  3. Grammar. Guided writing: A special event

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13 Questions

Q1.
What does "O" mean in BORDER?

Offer
Correct answer: Opinion
Option

Q2.
What does "D" mean in BORDER?

Correct answer: Development
Disaster
Do it yourself

Q3.
What does the second "R" mean in BORDER

Ratify
Reason
Correct answer: Review

Q4.
What does "correr" mean?

to discover
Correct answer: to run

Q5.
What does "descubrir" mean?

Correct answer: to discover
to run

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.
era

is
Correct answer: was / used to be
would be

Q8.
había

there is/are
Correct answer: there was/were
there would be

Q9.
tenía

I have / he/she has
Correct answer: I/he/she had / used to have
I/he/she would have

Q10.
estaba

Correct answer: was / used to be
was standing
were / used to be

Q11.
bueno

bad
fantastic
Correct answer: good

Q12.
cada

Correct answer: each
face
nearly

Q13.
gente

gentle
gentleman
Correct answer: peope