Infancia y recuerdos
Learning goals:
- Situation: Hablar sobre el pasado lejano y describir recuerdos (Talk about distant past and describe memories)
- Situation: Habla sobre tu infancia (Talk about your childhood)
- Situation: Pretérito imperfecto (Pretérito imperfecto)
- Verb: Ser (to be) - Pretérito imperfecto, indicativo (Imperfect Past, indicative)
- Verb: Vivir (to live) - Pretérito imperfecto, indicativo (Imperfect Past, indicative)
- Verb: Trabajar (to work) - Pretérito imperfecto, indicativo (Imperfect Past, indicative)
- Verb: Decir (to say) - Condicional simple, indicativo (Simple conditional, indicative)
- Verb: Pedir (to ask) - Condicional simple, indicativo (Simple conditional, indicative)
- Verb: Ver (to see) - Pretérito imperfecto, indicativo (Imperfect Past, indicative)
- Verb: Ir (to go) - Pretérito imperfecto, indicativo (Imperfect Past, indicative)
- Verb: Comer (to eat) - Pretérito imperfecto, indicativo (Imperfect Past, indicative)
- Grammar: El Pretérito Imperfecto (The Imperfect Past Tense)
- Culture: "Chicos en la playa": el retrato de la juventud, la inocencia y el pasado ("Kids on the Beach": the Portrait of Youth, Innocence, and the Past)
Learning module 3 (A2): El buen pasado (The good old past)
Teaching guidelines +/- 60 minutes
Listening materials
Video, audio, exercises and worksheets available.
A2.18.1 Diálogo: Recuerdos de la infancia
A2.18.1 Spanish dialogue: Childhood Memories
Pedro y Ana recuerdan su infancia y los juguetes de su niñez. Hablan de la nostalgia, la diversión de ser niños, y cómo han cambiado con el tiempo.
(Pedro and Ana remember their childhood and the toys of their youth. They talk about nostalgia, the fun of being children, and how they have changed over time.)
Teaching guidelines +/- 15 minutes
A2.18.2 Gramática: El Pretérito Imperfecto
A2.18.2 Spanish grammar: The Imperfect Past Tense
(The Imperfect Tense is a verb tense in Spanish that we use to talk about past actions that do not have a defined beginning or end, or that were repeated in the past.)
Teaching guidelines +/- 15 minutes
A2.18.3 Cuento corto: El Tesoro de la Infancia
A2.18.3 Spanish short story: The Treasure of Childhood
Un adulto recuerda con nostalgia su infancia mientras explora una caja de juguetes antiguos.
(An adult remembers his childhood with nostalgia while exploring a box of old toys.)
Teaching guidelines +/- 15 minutes
A2.18.4 Spanish culture: "Kids on the Beach": the Portrait of Youth, Innocence, and the Past
Un vistazo a la juventud en la playa con Sorolla.
(A glimpse of youth at the beach with Sorolla.)
Teaching guidelines +/- 10 minutes