Spanish Town & Local Area: Mi barrio Lesson | Conti-style

Two complete Conti-style Spanish lessons on town and local area, built around high-frequency chunks students need for speaking and writing: hay / no hay, opinions with reasons, and pero.

Students learn 12 places in town with colourful picture icons, then build up from simple hay / no hay sentences to describing where they live, giving opinions, reading a text about a Spanish town and designing their own ideal barrio.

24 slides with teacher notes, ready to teach with no prep.
Suitable for S2–S4 and Y8–10, National 4/5 and GCSE Foundation. Also works as revision for Higher-tier GCSE.

LESSON 1: WHAT IS THERE IN YOUR AREA?

• True or false starter on towns in Spain, with answers
• 12 places in town with picture icons
• Listening game: escucha y escribe la letra (pictures only)
• Hay / no hay explained step by step, with top tips on un / una and muchos / muchas
• Sentence builder: what there is and isn’t in your area
• Two games: Lee la mente and Eco defectuoso
• Sentence bingo, with the Spanish in the notes and a checking slide
• 3-2-1 plenary

LESSON 2: WHAT IS IT LIKE?

• Picture retrieval starter
• Describing where you live: 6 key phrases with icons, plus adjectives and agreement
• Opinion builder: opinion + reason + pero, with a future extension (me gustaría vivir en…)
• Speaking: 4 typical exam-style questions with model answers
• Reading: Lucía describes her town, with Find the Spanish and English questions, plus answers
• Translation into Spanish, plus answers
• Creative writing: design your ideal barrio, with checklist and sentence starters
• Colour-coded model answer
• 3-2-1 exit ticket

WHY THIS ONE’S DIFFERENT

Built on Gianfranco Conti’s Extensive Processing Instruction (EPI) methodology. Students hear, read and play with the language many times before they produce it, moving from pictures, to sentence builders, to reading, to translation, to independent writing.

Every translation sentence uses language students have already met in the lesson.

The speaking questions and model answers match the home town questions students meet in National 5 and GCSE speaking.

PAIRS WITH A FREE WORKSHEET

My Mi barrio vocabulary worksheet is free and uses the same chunks, with matching, gap-fill and translation tasks. Use it for homework or as a follow-up after Lesson 2.

FORMAT

Fully editable PowerPoint. 24 slides with teacher notes throughout.

Not sure whether my resources are right for you? TRY A FREE WORKSHEET FIRST: download my Present Tense Regular Verbs worksheet free.
Last updated: 24 October 2026