Y5/6 (A): Unit 1: Describing family and friends
Using different verbs to write descriptions of family members 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
Y3/4 (A): Unit 5: Dates and birthdays
Get startedLessons
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 1: Hermanos
- To ask and answer questions about family members.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 2: Family tree
- To describe the relationship between family members.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 3: Third person singular
- To identify the third person singular form of some common verbs.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 4: Describing what someone likes to do
- To describe what someone likes to do.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 5: Describing people
- To write a short descriptive text about a person.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 6: Identifying people
- To identify key information in descriptive sentences.
Key skills
Key knowledge
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Resources
Unit resources

Spanish
Knowledge organiser: Spanish – Describing family and friends
Aimed at pupils, a single page that gives key facts and definitions from the unit.

Spanish
Vocabulary display: Describing family and friends in Spanish
A display version of the key vocabulary from the unit 'Describing family and friends in Spanish'.

Spanish
Translations: Describing family and friends in Spanish
Translations of key texts and transcripts from resources in this unit.

Cross-curricular opportunities
English: Writing – composition.