Learning objective

  • To construct comparative sentences about South America’s environment.

Success criteria

  • I can interpret line graphs.
  • I can make comparisons

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National curriculum

Languages

Pupils should be taught to:

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Interpreting the video Inform the children that they will rewatch the Pupil video: Paisajes de América del Sur (captions only) from the previous lesson and interpret the transcript in pairs. Explain that interpreting is oral whereas translation involves writing. Play the video, pausing after each scene to allow the children to interpret each sentence. Invite…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support:

Should follow the video transcript using the Activity: América del sur from the previous lesson during the Recap and recall; should use the Activity: Making comparisons: support version during the Main event.

Pupils working at greater depth:

Could predict the problems that the animals have in Spanish during the Attention grabber;  should use additional vocabulary from their memory or sourced from a Spanish-English bilingual dictionary to make further comparisons during the Main event; should write multi-clause sentences using the conjunction and y – and (e.g. Hay menos árboles y menos frutas para comer que antes – There are fewer trees and less fruit than before).

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: interpreting line graphs accurately

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Vocabulary definitions

  • Hoy en día

    Nowadays

  • más

    more

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