A complete 1 hour lesson with follow up resources.

• Lesson Slides
• Student worksheet to accompany the lesson.
• Cultural Focus factsheet - Una quinceanera, Mi cumpleanos.
• Model writing worksheet - Foundation and Higher.
• Sample Answer sheet.

This lesson prepares students to speak and write about a past birthday.
The key grammar points:

• Preterite & Imperfect tenses together.
• Indirect object pronouns.
• The superlative.

Lesson Activities:
Starter: Grammar Detectives - identify the underlined grammar.
Pre-teach vocabulary: Key vocabulary and phrases for the lesson.
Grammar : Review and teach new grammar point in context - Indirect Object pronouns.
Listening: Listen and answer questions in English . Listen and complete missing words.
Reading: Read and answer questions in English. Read and conjugate the verbs excercise.
Cultural Focus: Birthday traditions in the Spanish speaking world.
Speaking: Talk about your past birthday party.
Writing: Foundation and Higher writing tasks.
Translation sentences: Spanish to English, English to Spanish.
Exit ticket/Plenary: Translation

There is a lot more than one hour’s worth of work so it allows for differentiation and plenty for the fast workers! Students could complete the worksheet for homework to review and extend the lesson, complete the writing tasks or prepare a speaking presentation (or all of these!).

This is designed for AQA GCSE but suitable for all exam boards and IB Ab Initio.