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Lesson Plan
Grade: Date: 17/01/2026
Subject: Spanish
Lesson Topic: Culture (e.g. customs, faiths and celebrations)
Learning Objective/s:
  • Describe key customs, faiths and celebrations in Spanish‑speaking countries using appropriate vocabulary.
  • Compare cultural practices across at least two Spanish‑speaking regions.
  • Use preterite, imperfect and future simple tenses accurately to talk about past and future festivals.
  • Produce a short written or oral presentation that incorporates comparative structures.
Materials Needed:
  • Projector and screen for slides/audio.
  • Printed handouts of the vocabulary table.
  • Poster paper, markers or a digital design tool.
  • Audio clip of a festival description.
  • Worksheet with comparative essay prompts.
  • Assessment rubrics and exit‑ticket sheets.
 Introduction:
Begin with a short video montage of vibrant festivals from Spain, Mexico and Argentina to spark curiosity. Ask students what they already know about celebrations in Spanish‑speaking cultures and link this to the vocabulary they have learned. Explain that today they will be able to describe and compare customs, faiths and celebrations, and will be assessed through a poster and a brief oral presentation.
Lesson Structure:
  1. Warm‑up video & discussion (5') – show montage, elicit prior knowledge.
  2. Vocabulary review (10') – quick matching quiz on key terms.
  3. Grammar mini‑lesson (10') – contrast preterite vs. imperfect and introduce future simple with festival examples.
  4. Research poster activity (20') – students choose a celebration, gather information, and create a bilingual poster (pairs).
  5. Role‑play interview (10') – journalist‑resident pairs use poster content to practice speaking.
  6. Gallery walk & peer feedback (10') – display posters, give comments using a checklist.
  7. Listening comprehension (5') – play audio clip of a festival description and answer questions.
  8. Exit ticket (5') – write one sentence describing a festival in the past tense and one in the future tense.
Conclusion:
Summarise how the new vocabulary and the past/future tenses helped us describe the festivals we explored. Collect the exit tickets to check understanding. For homework, students will write a 150‑word comparative paragraph about two celebrations, using comparative structures and the appropriate tense.