Spanish Food Unit Lesson Plans

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If you’re working on your Spanish food unit lesson plans, I thought I’d share an overview from my La Comida Unit! This Spanish 1 Unit is great for middle and high school students learning about food in Spanish, comer, & beber. This unit plan is perfect for your secondary Spanish students in middle school or high school. The activities include a basic introduction to gustar, as well as food vocabulary, comer, & beber. Let’s take a closer look at the Spanish food unit lesson plans!

Spanish Food Unit Lesson Plans

Here’s a quick overview of what is included in the Spanish food unit lesson plans:

Teacher Guide
10 Days of Lessons & Daily Slides
200+ pages
Comprehensible Reading Passages
Engaging Games
Audio Files
Unit Assessment
Answer Keys
Print & Digital Formats

Click here for digital and printable student activities!

You can use them in several ways:

2 week unit plan for 50 minute class periods
Skills Review for ER/IR Verbs and Food Vocabulary
Sub Plans
Independent Work
Small Groups
Whole Class Games
Individual Lessons to support your curriculum

This unit is designed for 2 weeks of 45-50 minute class periods and includes printable and digital activity options. The daily Google Slides for the teacher to project are editable (except for images where they are locked per terms of use by the artists) and the students are able to edit the digital activities to respond. The worksheets and activities themselves are not editable.

Click here to download the Spanish food unit lesson plans, or keep scrolling to see more!

La Comida Spanish Food Vocabulary

Here is a list of the vocabulary included in the unit:

el bistec
el brócoli
la carne
el chocolate caliente
la comida
las donas
la ensalada
la fresa
la fruta
la galleta
la hamburguesa
el helado
el jugo de naranja
la leche
la limonada
la manzana
el pan
los panqueques
las papas
las papas fritas
la tarta de calabaza
la pasta
el pescado
la pizza
el postre
el refresco
la sandía
el sándwich
las uvas
las verduras
las zanahorias

Spanish Food Unit Daily Lesson Plans

Here’s a day by day snapshot of the Spanish food unit lesson plans. All of the Slides, handouts, and digital activities can be downloaded here!

Day 1

“Buffet” entry to class – students choose food to add to their “plate”
Card Talk with the foods on their plate
Wrap up with a Write and Discuss

If you’re new to Card Talk, check out my video explaining the strategy here!

Day 2

On day 2, we’ll use the reading created from Day 1’s Write and Discuss for several activities.

Choral Translation
Sound Effect Reading
Reverse Running Dictation
Unscramble the Menu Reading Activity

Click here to learn more about this activity!

Day 3

One of the fun things about food vocabulary is that food elicits some strong opinions from pretty much everyone! We’re going to lean into that today:

Food Sort & Discuss
Share Food Opinions Activity
Speaking & Graphing with La Comida Speaking Activity

Click here to download the slides for the Spanish food unit lesson plans!

Day 4

Now that students have had a good amount of time personalizing the food vocabulary, it’s time to use it in a story! Here’s the plan for day 4 of the Spanish food unit lesson plans:

Story Telling with the La Comida Short Story
Story Comprehension Activities

If you’re new to story telling, definitely check out this blog post for tips and strategies!

Day 5

Let’s lean into the story! We’re going to play a reading game today.

If you don’t want to play the Word Chunk Game, there are tons of reading games you could choose from instead. Check out this list here!

Day 6

It’s time for one of my all time favorite activities for input: a gallery walk. Students will be up, moving around, and reading, reading, reading. They read SO much on gallery walk days, and they don’t even realize it!

This gallery walk includes 28 reading passages!

A simple classroom management tip: any time you do an activity where students will all finish at different points it’s handy to have an independent fast finisher ready to go. In this case, it’s the crossword puzzle, but you could choose almost anything from this list, too!

Use the La Comida Reading Comprehension Passages in a Gallery Walk activity
Crossword Puzzle

Click here for tips on how to do a gallery walk!

Day 7

It’s time for a little structured output in the form of a board game! In this game, students will roll a die, move and say the name of the food. You can also scaffold it up or down by having students roll 2 dice, then say a sentence with comer or beber and the item they landed on. Up to you!

Afterwards students will play the scavenger hunt style game, ¡Corre en Círculos!. Just like with the gallery walk, since students will be finishing at different times, it’s helpful to have that fast finisher ready to go with the maze puzzle game!

Day 8

On Day 8 we’ll have some fun with the plate sketch game, before doing some creative writing with a Roll a Story activity!

Plate Sketch Game
Roll a Story Creative Writing

The plate sketch game is another great source of input for students, and it leads to lots of laughs as students listen and draw on the plate on their heads!

Day 9

We’re getting to the end of the 10 day Spanish food unit lesson plans, so for day 9 we’re going to lean into (surprise!) more reading.

Reading the Roll a Story Activities
Most Important Sentence

Students love to see what the Roll a Story activities turned out like because their peers are so creative and the stories just get silly.

Day 10

For the last day of the Spanish food unit lesson plans, we’ll do an assessment. Students will listen, write on a food related prompt of their choosing, and interpret a menu.

Click here to download the Spanish food unit final assessment!