Spanish
Grade 1
15 min
La cena: ¿Qué comes por la noche? (Dinner: What do you eat at night?)
Learn vocabulary for dinner foods (carne, pollo, pescado, arroz, verduras).
What you'll learn
- Identify at least 8 common Spanish dinner food words (like 'pollo,' 'arroz,' 'ensalada') from a picture or spoken word with 80% accuracy.
- Explain in simple Spanish (using phrases like 'Yo como...' or 'Para la cena yo como...') what they typically eat for dinner, using at least 3 different food words learned in class.
- Apply their knowledge of Spanish dinner foods by creating a simple dinner plate drawing and labeling at least 5 items in Spanish with correct spelling.
- Understand simple questions about food in spanish, and answer them with 'si' or 'no'.
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Introduction & Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives
Identify 5 common dinner foods in Spanish.
Say 'I eat...' in Spanish using 'Yo como...'.
Ask 'What do you eat at night?' in Spanish.
Answer the question '¿Qué comes por la noche?' with one food.
Answer the question '¿Qué comes por la noche?' with two foods using 'y'.
Recognize the word 'la cena' as dinner.
¡Hola! Are you hungry? 😋 It's nighttime 🌙. Time for dinner!
Today, we will learn words for dinner foods. We will learn how to ask and answer what we eat for dinner. Let's talk about yummy food!
Real-World Applications
Tell your family what you want for dinner.
Ask a friend what they ate last night.
Share your favorite dinner food with the class.
Pretend to order...
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Key Concepts & Vocabulary
TermDefinitionExample
La cenaThe meal you eat at night. 🌙La cena es por la noche. (Dinner is at night.)
El pollo 🍗Chicken. A yummy bird we eat.Yo como pollo. (I eat chicken.)
El arroz 🍚Rice. Little white grains of food.Me gusta el arroz. (I like rice.)
La sopa 🥣Soup. A warm liquid food you eat with a spoon.La sopa está caliente. (The soup is hot.)
El pescado 🐟Fish. An animal from the water that we eat.Yo como pescado y arroz. (I eat fish and rice.)
La leche 🥛Milk. A white drink from a cow.Yo bebo leche. (I drink milk.)
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Grammar Rules & Patterns
Asking About Dinner
¿Qué comes por la noche?
Use this question to ask a friend, 'What do you eat at night?'
Answering About Dinner
Yo como [food name].
Start your answer with 'Yo como' to say 'I eat'. Then, add the food.
Connecting Two Foods
Yo como [food 1] y [food 2].
Use the word 'y' (it means 'and') to talk about two foods you eat.
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Challenging
Para la cena, mamá come pollo 🍗. Papá come pescado 🐟. ¿Qué come la familia? (For dinner, mom eats chicken. Dad eats fish. What does the family eat?)
A.Solo pollo (Only chicken)
B.Pollo y pescado (Chicken and fish)
C.Solo pescado (Only fish)
D.Sopa y ensalada (Soup and salad)
Challenging
¿Cuál es una cena completa y saludable? (Which is a complete and healthy dinner?)
A.Pollo, arroz y brócoli 🍗🍚🥦
B.Galletas y jugo 🍪🥤
C.Solo pan 🍞
D.Agua 💧
Challenging
Lees esto: 'Me gusta la sopa 🥣, pero no me gusta el pollo 🍗.' ¿Qué pides para la cena? (You read this: 'I like soup, but I don't like chicken.' What do you ask for for dinner?)
A.Pollo
B.Sopa y pollo
C.No me gusta la sopa
D.Sopa
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La cena: ¿Qué comes por la noche? (Dinner: What do you eat at night?) is a Grade 1 Spanish lesson on ExcelOS.
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You'll be able to: Identify at least 8 common Spanish dinner food words (like 'pollo,' 'arroz,' 'ensalada') from a picture or spoken word with 80% accuracy; Explain in simple Spanish (using phrases like 'Yo como...' or 'Para la cena yo como...')….
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