KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
Intención o posibilidad: transcription and extended writing
Studying and my future: mi futuro y mis modelos a seguir
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Your learning goal
I can produce extended writing about the future using a range of verb forms and tenses.
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Intención o posibilidad: transcription and extended writing: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
Original teaching resources
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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can produce extended writing about the future using a range of verb forms and tenses.
Key learning points
- In Spanish, [r] is pronounced differently depending on its position within a word.
- In Spanish, accents indicate where the stress should fall if this doesn't follow standard rules.
- The inflectional future expresses what will happen and the conditional expresses what would happen.
- 'Ir a + infinitive' is a 2-verb structure used to express what is going to happen.
- The BORDER acronym is a useful tool to respond fully and accurately to bullet point writing prompts.
Words to know
- inflectional future
- verb tense used to express what will happen
- conditional
- verb form used to express what would happen
- ir a + infinitive
- 2-verb structure used to express what is going to happen
- BORDER
- acronym used to respond fully and accurately to bullet point writing prompts
Common mistakes
The letter 'r' is always pronounced the same in Spanish.
In Spanish, 'r' is pronounced differently depending on its position within a word. 'r' in the middle or at the end of a word is pronounced as in 'pero', whereas 'r' at the beginning of a word and 'rr' are pronounced as in 'perro'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Task B1 lends itself to mini-whiteboard use. This will allow you to gauge each student's understanding of the formation of the conditional, inflectional future and 'ir a + infinitive'.

