Y5/6 (B): Unit 2: Sports in Spanish
Using imperative verbs to create instructions and invent an original ball game.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Use the correct form of verbs jugar – to play, and hacer – to do, when asking and answering questions about sport.
- Form the imperative of regular verbs.
- Translate written instructions into English.
- Follow instructions to play the Maya ball game.
- Use imperative verbs and praise words to encourage others during a game.
- Identify key information in a written text.
- Write instructions for an original ball game.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 2: Spanish portraits
Get startedLessons
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 1: Finding out about sports
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 2: Imperative verbs
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 3: The Maya ball game
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 4: Playing the Maya ball game
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 5: Identifying keywords
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 6: Creating a ball game
Key skills
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Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – Spanish Y5/6 (B): Sports in Spanish
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Sports in Spanish’.
Vocabulary display – Spanish Y5/6 (B): Sports in Spanish
A display version of the key vocabulary from the unit 'Sports in Spanish'.
Translations: Sports in Spanish
Translations of key texts and transcripts from resources in this unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
PE: Play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
English – reading comprehension: Retrieve and record information from instructions for different ball games.