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Las asignaturas y mi horario

School vocabulary is high-frequency: it appears in almost every exam listening and reading task at this level.

Part of your national curriculum
  • Grammar and vocabulary: Develop and use a wide-ranging and deepening vocabulary that goes beyond their immediate needs and interests

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Develop and use a wide-ranging and deepening vocabulary that goes beyond their immediate needs and interests

Key learning points

  • • Subjects
  • • The timetable
  • • Telling the time

This lesson at a glance

  • 20 minutes
  • 15 parts to scroll through
  • 4 quick checks
  • Marked quiz at the end
  • Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

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Las asignaturas y mi horario

An English teaching video on this topic from We Teach MFL. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.

In a nutshell

Develop and use a wide-ranging and deepening vocabulary that goes beyond their immediate needs and interests

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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 1 of 2

Part 1 · Subjects

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Subjects

las matemáticas, la lengua (Spanish language), el inglés, las ciencias, la historia, la geografía, la informática, la educación física, la música, el dibujo (art), la tecnología. Most take a definite article: estudio la historia.

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The timetable

Las clases empiezan a las nueve y terminan a las tres y media. Tenemos seis clases al día. El recreo es a las once. Los lunes tengo ciencias, los martes tengo música — 'los lunes' means 'on Mondays', with no word for 'on'.

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Quick check

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Quick check

How do you say 'on Mondays'?

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Quick check

Part 6 of 15

Quick check

Which is correct for 1 o'clock?

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Reset break

Part 7 of 15

Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.

Stop here for now
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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2 · Telling the time

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Telling the time

Es la una (one o'clock only), son las dos, son las tres y cuarto, son las cuatro y media, son las cinco menos veinte. For events use a las: la clase es a las diez.

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Quick check

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Quick check

What does 'el recreo' mean?

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Quick check

Part 11 of 15

Quick check

How do you say 'the lesson is at ten'?

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Part 12 of 15

Worked example

Worked example: describing a day

Los miércoles empiezo a las nueve con matemáticas, después tengo dos clases de ciencias. El recreo es a las once menos cuarto. Por la tarde tengo educación física y termino a las tres. — Sequencing words (después, por la tarde) turn a list into a paragraph.

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Challenge round

Part 13 of 15

Game · Sort it

Which of these are true?

Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.

True

Not true

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Mastery quiz

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Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: Las asignaturas y mi horario

4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

  1. 1. How do you say 'on Mondays'?

  2. 2. Which is correct for 1 o'clock?

  3. 3. What does 'el recreo' mean?

  4. 4. How do you say 'the lesson is at ten'?

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Lesson round-up

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Quiz score

Not sat

Games

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Points this lesson

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Best run

0 in a row

Luna: 0 out of 4 on the practice checks. Only if you feel up to it — one more?

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Do the work

Your written work for this lesson

This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.

Extract

Une journée à Lyon

Samedi matin, je me lève à sept heures et demie. Je prends le petit déjeuner avec ma sœur — du pain, du beurre et un chocolat chaud. Ensuite, nous prenons le bus jusqu'au centre-ville.

J'aime beaucoup Lyon parce qu'il y a un grand marché près du fleuve. Ma sœur préfère les magasins, mais moi, je préfère le marché : c'est moins cher et c'est plus intéressant. À midi, nous mangeons un sandwich au parc.

L'après-midi, il commence à pleuvoir, alors nous rentrons à la maison en tram. Le soir, je fais mes devoirs et je regarde un film avec mes parents.

Original text written for Good Learning Co.

Reading questions

  1. In English, say what the writer does in the morning, at midday and in the evening.
  2. Find the phrases that give an opinion and a reason, and copy them out.
  3. Write 8–10 sentences about your own Saturday, using at least three phrases from the text.

  • Written practice

    Writing

    Write the sentences out in the language, then translate them back into English.

    8–10 sentences

  • Vocabulary page

    Working out

    Copy the new words, cover them, and test yourself. Note the ones you keep missing.

    15 words

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