Directions in Spanish
Places in Town, Maps & Transportation · Spanish 1
- Grades
- Grades 7–10
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 44
- Answer keys
- Included
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Teach directions in Spanish with a real-world Spanish 1 unit students actually enjoy! Students explore Villa Paloma, a detailed fictional town, and ride the metro in the big city of Ciudad Mirador. They learn places in town, prepositions of location, tú and usted commands and transportation, then trace routes, read text messages and 24-hour schedules, plan metro trips and give directions to a partner. Every route on every page was traced and checked on the map.
What's included
- Teacher guide with 8-day pacing, materials, differentiation (support, on level, challenge) and tips for the info gap and listening
- Standards page (ACTFL World-Readiness Standards, can-do goals) with a complete table of contents
- 5 vocabulary reference pages: 30+ places in town, 12 prepositions with diagrams, directions with a tú/usted command chart, transportation, telling time and the 24-hour clock
- Practice pages: places with al / a la, and tú vs. usted commands
- Detailed town map of Villa Paloma with labeled streets, 25+ places, entrances and bus stops
- ¿Dónde está? prepositions with the map (20 items)
- Sigue la ruta: 6 routes to trace (tú and usted), plus a write-the-directions page
- Text-message reading: a friend's directions to her house, with 9 questions
- Partner A/B information-gap maps (Barrio Las Flores), 8 places each
- ¿Cómo vas? transportation sentences and a class survey
- Bus and train schedules in 24-hour time, with a time-conversion chart and 8 schedule questions
- Telling time practice: analog clocks, 24-hour times and conversions
- Fictional 4-line metro map with transfer stations, plus a metro trip planner
- Culture reading in simple Spanish: plazas and public transit in Spanish-speaking cities, with questions and a comparison organizer
- Teacher read-aloud listening script (follow the route) with a student response page
- 8 tourist/resident role-play cards and a model dialogue with a write-your-own script
- Give-directions-in-your-town writing project with planner, final draft page and 20-point rubric
- Interpersonal speaking rubric
- 4 exit tickets
- 2-page quiz (32 points)
- Complete answer keys (6 pages), including sample directions for every open task
How to use it
Use it as a complete 7–8 day Spanish 1 unit on places in town, directions and transportation, or pick the pieces you need: the directions mini-unit (map, prepositions, commands, routes) or the transportation-and-time mini-unit (schedules, metro, culture). Print and go: only the role-play cards and exit tickets need cutting.
Skills practiced
Places in townprepositions of location with estaral / del contractionstú and usted commandsasking for and giving directionstransportation with irtelling time and the 24-hour clockreading maps and schedulesinterpersonal speakingculture and comparisons
