KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
En el colegio: extended speaking and writing
My personal world: la vida fuera y dentro del colegio
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
IllumED Slides
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Your learning goal
I can use a range of regular and irregular verbs in the simple present and preterite to give a detailed description of school life and events.
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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can use a range of regular and irregular verbs in the simple present and preterite to give a detailed description of school life and events.
Key learning points
- Use ‘hacer’ in the 3rd person singular to talk about the weather.
- Combining the preterite tense and the present tense is a useful way to contrast past and present experiences.
- It is important to plan the use of tenses and the inclusion of regular and irregular verbs when creating a longer text.
- Creating a checklist for range of language and another for accuracy can enhance the quality of extended writing.
- Immediate repetition of a speaking task, with reduced support, improves performance.
Words to know
- hacer
- an irregular verb meaning 'to do, make', 'doing' or 'making'
- hace
- 3rd person singular of the verb hacer in the simple present, meaning ‘she, he, it does, makes’ or ‘it is’ when talking about the weather
- hizo
- 3rd person singular of the verb hacer in the preterite, meaning ‘she, he, it did, made’ or ‘it was’ when talking about the weather
Common mistakes
'Hacer' only translates as 'to do, make; doing, making'.
'Hacer' can be used to talk about the weather and therefore we can't always translate phrases with 'hacer' literally. 'Hace sol' translates as 'it's sunny' and 'hizo calor' translates as 'it was hot'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- For the speaking task in the second learning cycle, it would be beneficial if students have more than one opportunity to repeat the task, if time permits.