Description
Un viaje de trabajo is a comprehensive, illustrated nine-page A1 Spanish lesson designed for adult learners, lawyers and business professionals who want to develop practical Spanish communication skills for business travel.
Through illustrated situations, transport schedules, maps, listening comprehension and guided conversations, students learn how to compare travel options, buy tickets, ask for directions and find their way to a professional meeting.
The lesson follows Clara as she plans a business trip, compares transport options and travels to a law office for a meeting.
What does the lesson include?
1. Illustrated introduction and travel vocabulary
A four-panel comic introduces common business travel situations, including comparing tickets, checking the time, asking for directions and arriving at reception.
Students practise essential vocabulary such as andén, transbordo, vuelta, duración and trayecto.
2. Reading comprehension: Choosing a ticket
Students compare three travel options: a direct train, a direct bus and a train requiring a connection.
Using realistic timetables, prices and a fixed travel budget, they practise understanding departure and arrival times, journey durations and return schedules.
Activities include true, false or not mentioned statements, locating information and choosing the most suitable option.
3. Grammar: Expressing preferences and making comparisons
The lesson introduces the present tense of preferir and essential comparative structures:
- Más… que to express superiority.
- Menos… que to express inferiority.
- Tan… como to express equality.
- Mejor and peor.
- Relative superlatives such as el más barato.
Students use these structures to compare prices, journey times and transport options.
4. Asking for and giving directions
A detailed city map introduces practical language for locating places and explaining routes.
Students practise:
- Hay and estar to express existence and location.
- Al lado de, enfrente de, entre, cerca de and lejos de.
- Siga recto, gire a la izquierda, cruce la calle and tome la primera calle.
- Asking about distances and walking times.
Guided activities help students give directions from a station to a law office.
5. Listening comprehension: At the ticket office
Students listen to a conversation between a passenger and a ticket agent.
They identify departure times, arrival times, ticket prices, return journeys and platform information.
A structured role play allows students to practise buying a return ticket and asking for travel information.
6. Listening comprehension: Finding the meeting location
A second conversation follows a professional calling a law office to ask for directions from the station.
Students identify the purpose of the call, arrange instructions in the correct order and complete information about distances, addresses and building floors.
7. Speaking and professional writing
Guided activities encourage students to compare transport options, justify decisions, buy tickets and give directions.
A writing task asks students to prepare a message of 50 to 70 words explaining their chosen transport, arrival time and route to a meeting.
8. Grammar appendix
A dedicated grammar appendix explains six topics:
- Preferences and the present tense of preferir
- Comparative structures
- Relative superlatives
- Hay and estar
- Location and distance
- Giving directions using tú and usted
9. Additional exercises
Eight supplementary exercise sets reinforce comparisons, verb conjugation, location expressions, imperatives, questions and travel decisions.
10. Complete answers and listening transcripts
The final page includes answers to the lesson activities, suggested responses, additional exercise solutions and transcripts of both listening conversations.
Resource details
- Level: A1
- Format: Downloadable PDF
- Length: 9 pages
- Audience: Adult Spanish learners, lawyers and business professionals
- Grammar: Preferir, comparisons, superlatives, hay, estar and imperatives for directions
- Skills: Vocabulary, reading, listening, grammar, speaking and writing
- Includes: Illustrated comic, travel schedules, city map, two listening activities, grammar appendix, additional exercises, answers and transcripts
Listening and internet requirements
The lesson contains two listening comprehension activities, with complete transcripts provided on the final page.
Listening and internet requirements
The lesson includes two listening comprehension activities with external links to audio recordings.
Internet access is required to listen to the recordings. Complete transcripts of both activities are included in the PDF.
