IGCSE Spanish Lessons

Story-Based. Game-Driven.

Each lesson is built around a short story in Spanish — followed by comprehension tasks and one-minute vocabulary games. Structured by IGCSE topic area. Designed for international school students in Hong Kong.

Everyday Activities

This topic focuses on practical, day-to-day communication. You will learn to navigate real-world situations with complete autonomy through four key areas:

Home Life & Routine: Describe your daily habits, family dynamics, and how you manage household chores.

School & Education: Express your opinions on school subjects, classroom rules, and your daily routine at school.

Food & Drink: Master the essential vocabulary needed to order in restaurants, shop for groceries, and talk about meals.

Health & Fitness: Learn to describe body parts, explain common illnesses or symptoms, and discuss sports and healthy habits

My Daily Morning Routine

Learn about daily morning routines, reflexive verbs, and frequency adverbs.

Encabezado 4

Personal care vocabulary, reflexive verbs (despertarse, levantarse), frequency adverbs.

Household Chores at Home

Discussing household chores and the division of labor in the family.

Encabezado 4

Chores vocabulary (hacer la cama, limpiar), obligations (tener que, deber), equal distribution.

Family Dynamics and Relationships

Describing family dynamics, communication, and morning/evening habits with family members.

Encabezado 4

Family members, character adjectives, verbs for communication and family life.

My Favorite School Subjects

Expressing school subject preferences, justifications, and timetable descriptions.

Encabezado 4

School subjects, preference verbs (gustar, encantar, preferir), justification using adjectives.

Classroom Rules and Regulations

Discussing classroom rules, institutional discipline, and expressions of obligation.

Encabezado 4

Discipline vocabulary, obligation periphrasis (se debe, está prohibido, tener que).

A Typical Day at School

Describing a standard school day routine including break times, lunch, and after-school activities.

Encabezado 4

Telling time, time connectors (luego, después), break time and lunch activities.

Main Meals of the Day

Vocabulary regarding breakfast, lunch, afternoon snacks, dinner, and main food groups.

Encabezado 4

Food groups, breakfast/lunch/dinner vocabulary, healthy eating habits.

Dining Out: At the Restaurant

Interactions with waiters, ordering food, asking for the bill, and role-play expressions.

Encabezado 4

Courtesy expressions for ordering food, asking for the bill, interactive complaints, and menu vocabulary.

Grocery Shopping at the Supermarket

Buying groceries, quantities, food types, and basic transactional vocabulary.

Encabezado 4

Shops vocabulary, packaging and quantities (kilo, botella, paquete), commercial transactional expressions.

Body Parts and Common Illnesses

Learning anatomy basics and using the verb 'doler' to express illnesses and symptoms.

Encabezado 4

Basic anatomy, expressing pain with the verb 'doler', common symptoms (tener fiebre, estar resfriado).

Sports and Staying Fit

Discussing physical exercise, active lifestyle habits, and sports vocabulary.

Encabezado 4

Sports and exercise vocabulary, verbs 'jugar' and 'practicar', active and healthy lifestyle.

Personal and Social Life

This topic explores your personal world, relationships, and cultural experiences. You will learn to express your identity and connect with others through three key areas:

Self & Relationships: Learn to detail physical appearance, personality traits, and discuss the qualities of meaningful friendships

House & Home:Talk about different types of housing, describe your ideal home, and explain how household chores are shared.

Holidays & Special Occasions: Master the vocabulary to describe holiday destinations, family celebrations, and traditional Hispanic festivals

Health & Fitness: Learn to describe body parts, explain common illnesses or symptoms, and discuss sports and healthy habits

Physical and Character Description

Advanced physical features and character adjectives to describe yourself and others.

Encabezado 4

Advanced physical features, nuanced personality adjectives, verbs 'ser', 'estar', and 'tener'.

The Importance of Friendship

Discussing interpersonal relationships, qualities of a good friend, and handling conflicts.

Encabezado 4

Qualities of a good friend, interpersonal relationships, resolving verbal conflicts, affective expressions.

Types of Housing and My Ideal Home

Describing different types of housing, neighborhoods, and creating a dream home project.

Encabezado 4

Types of property (piso, chalet), parts of the house, hypothetical conditional sentences (si tuviera... compraría).

Organization of Household Chores

Comparing how household chores are distributed within different types of housing arrangements.

Encabezado 4

Domestic comparisons, equal family distribution, description of habitual and past chores.

Festivals and Traditions of the Hispanic World

Exploring cultural festivals like Día de los Muertos, Las Fallas, La Tomatina, and regional traditions.

Encabezado 4

Cultural festivities (Día de Muertos, Fallas), festive vocabulary (desfile, disfraz), socio-cultural value.

My Favorite Holiday Destinations

Discussing preferences for holiday destinations (beach, mountain, city) and travel companions.

Encabezado 4

Holiday destinations (beach, mountain), holiday preferences, use of Preterite (Pretérito Indefinido) for past trips.

Special Family Celebrations

Talking about birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and family holiday customs like Christmas.

Encabezado 4

Family customs, birthdays, Christmas, weddings, combined use of past tenses for anecdotes.

The World Around Us

This topic expands your language skills to your local surroundings, travel experiences, and global issues. You will learn to interact with your community and discuss the planet through three key areas:

Home Town & Local Area: Navigate your neighborhood, describe local services like banks or post offices, and master giving and asking for directions

Travel & Transport: Talk about different weather patterns, compare methods of transport, and explore regional tourism.

The Environment: Discuss global environmental challenges, everyday recycling habits, and the impacts of climate change.

My Hometown or City

Describing hometown layout, features, and advantages or disadvantages of living there.

Encabezado 4

Public places, urban adjectives, pros and cons of rural vs. urban life.

Neighborhood Shopping and Local Services

Navigating local shops, banks, post offices, and essential commercial vocabulary.

Encabezado 4

Public services (bank, post office), traditional shops, basic formal transactional vocabulary.

Asking for and Giving Directions

Mastering directional language, imperatives, and asking for paths to specific places.

Encabezado 4

Spatial orientation vocabulary, use of the formal/informal Imperative mood for directions.

Weather and Seasons of the Year

Talking about different weather patterns, climate impact on plans, and seasonal activities.

Encabezado 4

Weather expressions (hace sol, llueve), seasons, climate impact on recreational activities.

Public and Private Transport Methods

Comparing transport efficiency, preferences, costs, and environmental impacts.

Encabezado 4

Means of transport (avión, tren, coche), transport prepositions (en tren, a pie), advantages and disadvantages tables.

Tourism in My Region

Discussing local tourist attractions, guiding foreign visitors, and tourism benefits.

Encabezado 4

Local attractions, tourist brochures, use of conditional and imperative to recommend visits.

Global Environmental Problems

Identifying global environmental challenges like pollution, deforestation, and resource depletion.

Encabezado 4

Environmental vocabulary (pollution, deforestation), expressing concern, use of present indicative.

Recycling and Caring for the Planet

Discussing domestic recycling habits, sustainability, and personal contributions to ecological care.

Encabezado 4

Domestic sustainable habits, types of recycling bins, use of impersonal obligation constructions (hay que).

Climate Change and Its Effects

Discussing complex structures regarding global warming, greenhouse effects, and future climate actions.

Encabezado 4

Global warming, greenhouse effect, use of Future Simple for long-term ecological forecasts.

The World of Work

This topic focuses on your professional future, higher education, and modern workplace communication. You will learn to discuss career pathways and professional environments through three key areas:

Further Education: Talk about your plans for university and the importance of studying languages.

Careers & Employment:Discuss past work experience or internships, future career ambitions, and the pros and cons of part-time jobs.

Communication & Workplace: Master the vocabulary needed to use technology and languages effectively in an office or work environment.

Tourist Information and Traveling Abroad

Discussing prospective university choices, career choices, and secondary education pathways.

Encabezado 4

University careers, post-secondary study options, future and intention structures (pensar + infinitive, ir a).

Tourist Information and Traveling Abroad

Analyzing benefits of bilingualism, cognitive skills, and international workplace opportunities.

Encabezado 4

Bilingualism, cognitive skills, job opportunities, idioms for workplace argumentation.

Tourist Information and Traveling Abroad

Describing past internships, work experience, responsibilities, and tasks completed.

Encabezado 4

Basic professional duties, office responsibilities, combined use of Preterite and Imperfect for work reports.

Tourist Information and Traveling Abroad

Discussing ideal career fields, salaries, dream professions, and evolving global jobs.

Encabezado 4

Job sectors, salaries, emerging tech professions, use of Conditional Simple for ideal ambitions.

Tourist Information and Traveling Abroad

Discussing student pocket money, part-time opportunities, babysitting, and weekend shifts.

Encabezado 4

Temporary jobs (babysitting, waiter), pocket money, financial/student pros and cons.

Tourist Information and Traveling Abroad

Digital literacy in workspaces, emails, professional communications, and virtual interactions.

Encabezado 4

Formal tech vocabulary, professional emails, formal greetings and closings at work.

Tourist Information and Traveling Abroad

Applying language fluencies in meetings, translating materials, and global client interactions.

Encabezado 4

Language fluency in meetings, translation of business materials, global client interactions, executive expressions.

The International World

This topic prepares you to become a global citizen by exploring international travel and cultural diversity. You will learn to navigate the global landscape through two key areas:

Travel at Home and Abroad:Learn to handle tourist information booths, understand brochures, and navigate a foreign country or manage emergencies while abroad.

Life in Other Countries: Make cultural comparisons regarding daily lifestyles, explore unique international traditions, and discuss major world events.

Tourist Information and Traveling Abroad

Navigating foreign informational booths, brochures, currency exchange, and flight bookings.

Encabezado 4

Tourist information points, international brochures, flight bookings, and currency exchange.

How to Get Around in a Foreign Country

Solving real-world scenarios like asking for emergency help, lost passports, or navigating custom barriers.

Encabezado 4

Survival scenarios, medical emergencies, lost passports, customs, requests for help in Spanish.

Cultural Comparisons Between Countries

Contrasting schedules, greetings, lifestyles, and societal values across global communities.

Encabezado 4

Cultural differences, schedules, greetings, lifestyles, and societal values.

Unique International Traditions

Exploring unique worldwide celebrations, national holidays, and major heritage rituals.

Encabezado 4

Global celebrations, unique national holidays, international heritage rituals.

World Events and Global News

Discussing worldwide sports tournaments, ecological summits, and global interconnectedness.

Encabezado 4

Worldwide sports tournaments, international news, global events and environmental summits.