¿Cómo te hiciste daño? - how did you hurt yourself in Spanish

Updated for September 2025-26

Learning intention: to express what you were doing when you injured yourself

Learning outcomes:

• Recap of Preterite
• Learn “estaba” + “ando/iendo” structure
• Express what you were doing when you injured yourself

*All exercises come with instructions in the “Notes” area.
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**Lesson includes:
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Written texts
Recorded audios for listening activities
Video with listening activity

Slides order

1. Starter - double translation using me duele structure
2. Objectives
3. Introduction to specific verbs about injuries
4. Recap of the Preterite
5. Reflexive verbs in the Preterite refresh
6. Preterite gapfill
7. Pre-listening preterite time references and extra vocabulary
8. Listening about how people hurt themselves
9. Learning the Past Continuous
10. Introduction to Past Continuous + Preterite interrupting action structure
11. Translate the sentences
12. Reading about how people injured themselves
13. Pre-listening higher level vocabulary
14. Listening
15. Plenary - how did you hurt yourslef
16. Audiovisual extra vocabulary

We also have a Quizlet vocabualry list for the content of the lesson in our Spanish Steps 3 Folder.