KS3 · Spanish · Year 7

Summer plans: 'ir' + a + infinitive

Places and plans: 'ir' for present and future plans

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Your learning goal

I can use the verb 'ir' to say where I or we go and what I or we are going to do in the summer.

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What you’ll learn

I can use the verb 'ir' to say where I or we go and what I or we are going to do in the summer.

Key learning points

In Spanish, the SSCs [ce], [ci], and [z] are pronounced differently in different parts of the Spanish-speaking world.
'Ir + a + infinitive' is a 2-verb structure used to say what someone is going to do.
A question is ‘closed’ when its answer is either ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
A statement is changed into an intonation question in Spanish simply by raising the tone of voice at the end.

Words to know

[ce] [ci] [z]: pronounced as in 'centro', 'decir' and 'zapato', and differently in different parts of the Spanish-speaking world
ir + a + infinitive: 2-verb future structure meaning 'going to + infinitive'
closed question: question that gets the answer 'yes' or 'no' and is created in Spanish by raising the tone of voice at the end of a statement

Common mistakes

We swap the verb and subject around to ask a closed, yes/no question as in English, e.g. 'Are we going to go on holiday?'

All closed questions in Spanish have the same word order as the equivalent statement, e.g.'Vamos a ir de vacaciones' ('We are going to go on holiday') → '¿Vamos a ir de vacaciones?' ('Are we going to go on holiday?').

For parents, carers and teachers

If schools organise any trips or activities days in the summer term for their Y7 cohort, they might want to adapt the focus of this lesson to adapt the lesson for their context and talk about the activities that pupils are going to do during this time.