Year 11

Guided Writing: Higher: Unit 6: Special Events

Year 11

Guided Writing: Higher: Unit 6: Special Events

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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