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A2.34 (Spanish lesson): Assuming and guessing

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A2.34 (Spanish lesson): Assuming and guessing

Learning goals:

  • Situation: Aprende las palabras para hacer suposiciones y conjeturas (Learn the words to make assumptions and guesses)
  • Situation: Habla sobre tus suposiciones (Talk about your assumptions)
  • Situation: Aprende el vocabulario para expresar cosas que son inciertas (Learn the vocabulary to express things that are uncertain)
  • Verb: Ser (to be) - Futuro simple, indicativo (Simple future, indicative)
  • Verb: Estar (to be) - Futuro simple, indicativo (Simple future, indicative)
  • Grammar: El futuro simple: expresar probabilidad (El futuro simple: expressing probability)
  • Culture: "La Colmena": Un Mundo de Secretos Ocultos ("La Colmena": A World of Hidden Secrets)

Learning module 5 (A2): Planes para el futuro (Future Plans)

Teaching guidelines +/- 60 minutes

Listening materials

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A2.34.1 Will we guess the secret?

Un diálogo corto entre Pedro y Ana sobre sus sospechas y dudas en una situación misteriosa.

(A short dialogue between Pedro and Ana about their suspicions and doubts in a mysterious situation.)

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Teaching guidelines +/- 15 minutes

A2.34.2 Spanish grammar: El futuro simple: expressing probability

(The futuro simple is used in Spanish not only to talk about actions that will occur in the future, but also to express probability or assumptions about something we do not know for certain in the present.)

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A2.34.3 Cuento corto: El secreto oculto

A2.34.3 Spanish short story: The Hidden Secret

Juan explora la casa vieja de su abuelo llena de secretos y dudas.

(Juan explores his grandfather's old house full of secrets and doubts.)

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A2.34.4 Spanish culture: "La Colmena": A World of Hidden Secrets

En "La Colmena" de Camilo José Cela, los personajes esconden secretos mientras viven en el Madrid de la posguerra. Una historia llena de misterio.

(In "La Colmena" by Camilo José Cela, the characters hide secrets while living in post-war Madrid. A story full of mystery.)

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Teaching guidelines +/- 10 minutes