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**Updated for 2025-26
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Lesson 1/5 out of Languages on a Plate’s second beginner module 1.2: Passions and Pastimes, which is centred around building on the basics for Spanish beginners (perfect for Year 7), and follows on from Module 1.1 All About Me

This lesson reinforces students’ knowledge of regular present tense verb conjugation in Spanish and teaches them vocabulary to describe the base hobbies they could do in their free time. The lesson builds on the knowledge from the 10 lessons in module 1.1 All About Me, which taught them the core regular verb conjugation and how to introduce themselves.

Learning intention: to express what hobbies you have and how often you do them

**Learning outcomes:
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• Re-cap how to conjugate regular verbs in the Present Tense
• Learn vocabulary for common hobbies (in the infinitive and “yo” forms)
• Express what hobbies you have and how often you do them

**Lesson includes:
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(Slide order)

1. Starter - put the correct verb/piece of vocabulary in the spaces based on the subject/subject pronoun
2. Objectives
3. Stop and drop recap of the Present Tense conjugations
4. Recap of the Present
5. Objectives
6. Vocabulary introduction - hobby verbs in the infinitive and “yo” forms
7. Game - fastest finger first
8. Reading - read someone’s hobbies and pick out new words based on context and prior knowledge _ comprehension
9. Reading - vocab search and true v false comprehension
10. Pre-listening time reference
11. Listening - listen for what activities people do and don’t do
12. Objectives
13. Vocabulary - days of the week
14. Grammar - Present Tense verb conjugation
15. Reading - comprehension
16. Grammar - avoid misunderstanding
17. Vocabulary - time references
18. Translation - Spanish to English then English to Spanish
19. Audiovisual - extra context
20. . Objectives
21. Plenary - what you do in your free time writing

We also have a Quizlet vocabualry list for the content of the lesson in our Spanish Steps 1 Folder.