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Lesson Plan
Grade: Date: 25/02/2026
Subject: Spanish
Lesson Topic: Food and drink (e.g. meals, fruit and vegetables, meat, fish and seafood, snacks, drinks, cutlery and utensils)
Learning Objective/s:
  • Identify and pronounce at least 15 food and drink items in Spanish.
  • Apply correct definite articles (el, la, los, las) with nouns for meals and utensils.
  • Ask and answer simple questions about meals, preferences, and ordering in a café.
  • Write a short paragraph (5‑7 sentences) describing a typical meal using present‑tense verbs.
  • Comprehend a spoken ordering dialogue and extract the food and drink vocabulary mentioned.
Materials Needed:
  • Projector or interactive whiteboard
  • Printed vocabulary handouts (English‑Spanish table)
  • Audio clip of a café ordering conversation
  • Role‑play cue cards (waiter & customer)
  • Worksheets for matching, article practice, and writing task
  • Whiteboard and markers
 Introduction:

Show a picture of a bustling Spanish café and ask students what foods and drinks they think are being ordered. Briefly review greetings and the verb “querer” that they already know. Explain that by the end of the lesson they will be able to name common foods, use the correct articles, and carry out a simple ordering dialogue.
Lesson Structure:
  1. Do‑now (5'): Students match English‑Spanish food items on the board using the handout.
  2. Mini‑lecture (10'): Introduce and practice definite articles and plural forms for utensils; reference the table on the screen.
  3. Listening task (5'): Play the audio ordering clip; students jot down every food and drink mentioned.
  4. Pair role‑play (15'): Using cue cards, students act out waiter‑customer conversations, adapting the sample dialogue with new items.
  5. Writing activity (5'): Each student writes a short paragraph describing their typical breakfast, incorporating at least five vocabulary words.
  6. Plenary & exit ticket (5'): Review the objectives; students write one food item with its correct article on a sticky note as an exit ticket.
Conclusion:

Summarise how the lesson covered vocabulary, article usage, and real‑life ordering situations. Collect exit tickets to check understanding of articles. For homework, assign a worksheet where students create a simple menu in Spanish, including prices and a short description for each item.