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A2.19 (Spanish lesson): I remember when...

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A2.19 (Spanish lesson): I remember when...

Learning goals:

  • Situation: Habla sobre eventos específicos y terminados en el pasado (Talk about specific and finished events in the past)
  • Situation: Habla sobre tus experiencias del pasado (Talk about your experiences from the past)
  • Verb: Vivir (to live) - Pretérito indefinido, indicativo (Simple past, indicative)
  • Verb: Trabajar (to work) - Pretérito indefinido, indicativo (Simple past, indicative)
  • Verb: Comer (to eat) - Pretérito indefinido, indicativo (Simple past, indicative)
  • Grammar: El Pretérito Indefinido: los verbos regulares (El Pretérito Indefinido: Regular Verbs)
  • Culture: La pandemia de COVID-19 en España (The COVID-19 pandemic in Spain)

Learning module 3 (A2): El buen pasado (The good old past)

Teaching guidelines +/- 60 minutes

Core vocabulary (10)

 Acordarse (to remember) - conjugation and tenses - (Spanish)

Él se acuerda de describir la naturaleza.

(He remembers to describe the nature.)

Acordarse

(To remember)

 Pasar por: To go through (Spanish)

Durante la pandemia, pasé por una etapa de nostalgia y eché de menos la infancia.

(During the pandemic, I went through a stage of nostalgia and missed my childhood.)

Pasar por

(To go through)

 Durante: During (Spanish)

Durante la pandemia, me acordé mucho de mi infancia y eché de menos cómo solía jugar con mis juguetes.

(During the pandemic, I often reminisced about my childhood and missed how I used to play with my toys.)

Durante

(During)

 La visita: The visit (Spanish)

Las visitas a la casa de mis abuelos eran siempre muy divertidas.

(Visits to my grandparents' house were always very fun.)

La visita

(The visit)

 El virus: The virus (Spanish)

Durante la pandemia, el virus cambió nuestras vidas.

(During the pandemic, the virus altered our lives.)

El virus

(The virus)

 La pandemia: The pandemic (Spanish)

En el pasado ha habido muchas pandemias.

(In the past, there have been many pandemics.)

La pandemia

(The pandemic)

 Contagiado: Infected (Spanish)

Ayer, la niña estuvo contagiada por el virus.

(Yesterday, the girl was infected with the virus.)

Contagiado

(Infected)

 Cambiar de casa: To move house (Spanish)

El año pasado cambiamos de casa y descubrimos muchos recuerdos de nuestra infancia mientras empacábamos juguetes.

(Last year, we moved house and discovered many memories from our childhood while packing toys.)

Cambiar de casa

(To move house)

 El pasado: The past (Spanish)

Durante la visita, se habló de los pasados eventos importantes.

(During the visit, they talked about the important past events.)

El pasado

(The past)

 Deprimido: Depressed (Spanish)

Ella estaba deprimida después de cambiar de casa.

(She was depressed after moving house.)

Deprimido

(Depressed)

Word list (14)

Core vocabulary (10): Verbs: 1, Adjectives: 2, Adverbs: 1, Interjection: 1, Nouns: 4, Sentences / word combination: 1
Context vocabulary: 4

Spanish English
Acordarse To remember
Cambiar de casa To move house
Confinamiento Lockdown
Contagiado Infected
Deprimido Depressed
Durante During
El pasado The past
El virus The virus
Esperanza Hope
Fuerza Strength
La pandemia The pandemic
La visita The visit
Pasar por To go through
Se acuerda Remembers