Unit 1: Describing family and friends in Spanish
Using different verbs to write descriptions of family members in Spanish.
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Unit 1: Describing family and friends in Spanish
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to
- Ask and answer questions to find out personal information.
- Understand a variety of answers to the question, ¿Tienes hermanos? – Do you have any brothers or sisters?
- Identify the names of family members.
- Use de to indicate possession.
- Describe relationships between family members.
- Identify the difference between the first, second and third person forms of some familiar verbs.
- Describe what someone likes to do.
- Write a description giving personal information about someone in the third person.
- Identify a person from a written description.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 5: Spanish celebrations
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Hermanos
Lesson 2: Family tree
Lesson 3: Third person singular
Lesson 4: Describing what someone likes to do
Lesson 5: Describing people
Lesson 6: Identifying people
Key skills
Key knowledge
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Knowledge organiser: Spanish – Describing family and friends
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Vocabulary display: Describing family and friends in Spanish
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English: Writing – composition.