KS4 · Spanish · Year 11
Una vida sana: extended writing
My personal world: influencias
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Your learning goal
I can use a variety of tenses to talk about my healthy lifestyle.
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Una vida sana: 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
The original illustrated PowerPoint is available as well as the IllumED text slides. It retains the publisher’s design and credits.
Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can use a variety of tenses to talk about my healthy lifestyle.
Key learning points
- The Leitner System is a simple but very powerful method to revise vocabulary.
- To talk about a completed action in the past we use the preterite.
- ‘Decir’, ‘estar’, ‘venir’, ‘poner’, ‘querer’, ‘dar’, ‘traer’ and ‘poder’ have irregular stems in the preterite.
- The BORDER acronym is a useful tool to respond fully and accurately to bullet point writing prompts.
Words to know
- preterite
- a tense used for events completed in the past, e.g. 'I went', 'I wanted', 'I said'
- BORDER
- acronym used to respond fully and accurately to bullet point writing prompts
Common mistakes
If I decide to use BORDER I will apply it once for the whole writing.
If you choose to use BORDER, apply it to each paragraph separately. This will help you respond clearly and completely to each bullet point.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The teacher might want to create a classroom poster using the BORDER acronym to display as a visual reminder. It can help students remember to structure each paragraph clearly and respond fully to every bullet point in writing tasks.