Mis vacaciones · Holidays in the present
The first bitesized lesson — where you usually go, who with, what you do there, and your opinion about it. Present tense plus an opinion-and-reason move for the final speaking question. Full lesson page with all eight steps: KS3 refresh, twenty new GCSE words, Foundation + Higher reading and listening passages with auto-marked quizzes, two-way translation, photo card, role-play and writing tasks at both tiers.
Lesson 1 — Mis vacaciones
Holidays in the present: where you usually go, who with, what you do and your opinion. Includes 16 KS3 refresh words, 20 new GCSE words (with F / H / both tier tags), F + H reading and listening passages with auto-marked quizzes, two-way translation, photo-card model answers, role-play in a travel agency, and Foundation + Higher writing tasks with sentence starters and model answers.
Open Lesson 1Lesson 2 — El transporte
Modes of transport, buying tickets, asking about times and prices, journey vocabulary. Present + near future + impersonal se.
Open Lesson 2Lesson 3 — El alojamiento
Types of accommodation, what's included, booking, problems on arrival. Includes the present perfect for complaints.
Open Lesson 3Lesson 4 — Lugares de interés
Tourist sights, what you can do there, opening hours and prices. Se puede / se pueden + infinitive and superlatives.
Open Lesson 4Lesson 5 — Las vacaciones del año pasado
Past holiday narrative. Preterite + imperfect: fui, hicimos, había, hacía calor.
Open Lesson 5Lesson 6 — Mis vacaciones ideales
Dream holidays. Simple future + conditional + si clauses (Higher).
Open Lesson 6