1 - Clock or Timetable? ~5 mins
What time is it right now? Say it in English first. Now imagine you are reading a Spanish train timetable. Would the number look the same?
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Answer the time in Spanish using today's phrases (half past, quarter past, quarter to, on the hour)
- Match a 24-hour timetable time to how you would say it face to face
- Write three times from your day with the model stems on the board
2 - Eight Time Phrases ~10 mins
These are phrases you would hear under the reloj in a big station like Atocha, or on a school corridor clock in Valencia.
For each card: listen to the audio, repeat twice with the class, then flip to check the English. Use the hour strip on the board with today's cards when you build a full time.
3 - Match the Times ~9 mins
Match as if you are helping a friend read a Cercanías board in Madrid. Flip two cards at a time and find each Spanish time phrase with its English meaning. Whisper the Spanish each time you turn a card.
4 - Times in Your Day ~6 mins
Read the three model sentences aloud with the class first. Then open your copy and write your own times by swapping in your hour (and optional y media, y cuarto, menos cuarto or en punto).
Models (say them together):
Me levanto a las siete en punto. (I get up at seven o'clock exactly.)
El colegio empieza a las nueve. (School starts at nine.)
Me acuesto a las diez y media. (I go to bed at half past ten.)
Your turn — copy the frame, change the time:
Me levanto a las ______.
El colegio empieza a las ______.
Me acuesto a las ______.
Optional stretch: invent one Spanish day line from a timetable (e.g. a train at 16:45) and write the face-to-face form underneath using today's phrases: Las cinco menos cuarto.
5 - Time Bingo ~9 mins
First your teacher gives everyone a bingo card (printed ticket-style cards). The cards show school-bell and station times. Listen carefully to each time phrase and mark it on your card. First full line wins — and the winner reads their line back like a station announcer!
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