¿Qué Hora Es? ¿Qué Tiempo Hace? Time and Weather

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¿Qué Hora Es? ¿Qué Tiempo Hace? Time and
Weather
World Languages · Spanish 1 · Grades 8-10 · 50 minutes
Time needed
50 minutes (one class period)
Prep
Copy the 2-page worksheet (one per student). Write two questions on the board (see Before
Class).
Technology
None. Students do not need to look at real weather data.
Student
independence
High. Students work alone with a reference table.
Copies to make
One 2-page worksheet per student
Materials
Pencils, Worksheet, Whiteboard or chalkboard
Goal for today: Students will tell time in Spanish on the hour, half hour and quarter hour, and will describe basic
weather in Spanish.
Before the bell
☐ Copy the worksheet, one per student (2 pages).
☐ Write on the board: ¿Qué hora es? = What time is it? | ¿Qué tiempo hace? = What is the weather like?
☐ Keep the answer key on your desk. Every answer has an English translation.
Say this to start
Good morning! Today in Spanish we are practicing two common questions: What time is it? and What is the weather
like? There is a reference table on page 1 with the phrases you need. You will match times, fill in blanks, read a short
made-up weather report and write your own sentences. Take your time and use the table whenever you need it.


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Run of show
Minutes
What you do
What students do
0–5
Take attendance the way the school requires. Hand out the
worksheet. Read the two board questions aloud in English.
Settle in and read the board.
5–10
Tell students to study the reference table for several
minutes. Mention that the times use Son las… (plural)
except for one o’clock, which is Es la una.
Study the time and weather phrases.
10–20
Tell students to complete Part A (matching, questions 1–6)
and Part B (questions 7–10).
Match times, then fill in the missing time
words.
20–30
Tell students to read the made-up weather report in Part C
and answer questions 11–14.
Read the weather report and answer the
questions.
30–40
Tell students to translate questions 15–17 into Spanish
using the reference table.
Translate three weather sentences.
40–46
Tell students to write their own sentences for question 18.
Say they may pick any time and any weather. Walk around
to check each student wrote two sentences.
Write two original sentences.
46–50
Read the answers from the key. Students mark their work.
Collect all worksheets.
Check answers and hand in the worksheet.
If things go wrong
• If students say they do not know the numbers in Spanish, tell them the numbers they need (one to twelve)
are written in the questions or in the reference table.
• If students ask how to pronounce a phrase, say you do not speak Spanish and ask a classmate who does.
• If students are confused about “menos cuarto,” tell them it means “minus a quarter,” or a quarter to the next
hour: 6:45 is seven minus a quarter.
• If students finish early, use the early finisher list.
Early finishers
• Write the times 1:00, 2:30, 3:15 and 4:45 in Spanish on the back of the worksheet, then check with the table.
• Write a weather report for a made-up city in Spanish, using at least three weather phrases.
• Write two questions in Spanish that a friend could ask you, one about time and one about weather.
Support and challenge
• Support: Let students complete questions 1–4, 7–8 and 15–16, and write one sentence for question 18.
• Challenge: Write a daily schedule in Spanish with at least four different times and an activity for each.


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Notes for the teacher (you fill this in)
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How far the class got / what to pick up next:
Students who were especially helpful:
Anything the teacher should know: