Description
Deseos y necesidades en el trabajo is a comprehensive, illustrated 10-page Spanish lesson for A1–A2 learners who want to communicate their wishes, needs, obligations and professional interests in Spanish.
Designed for lawyers, business professionals and adult learners, the resource introduces essential Spanish structures through practical workplace situations, including preparing meetings, communicating with clients, reading contracts, writing emails and discussing professional plans.
What does the lesson cover?
1. Expressing wishes, needs and obligations
Students learn to distinguish and use:
- Querer + infinitivo: Quiero hablar con mis clientes.
- Necesitar + infinitivo: Necesito preparar una reunión.
- Tener que + infinitivo: Tengo que presentar un informe.
- Me gustaría + infinitivo: Me gustaría trabajar en Buenos Aires.
2. Professional vocabulary and illustrated activities
Students identify common workplace actions, including reading contracts, writing emails, presenting reports, attending meetings, travelling for work and speaking with clients.
Illustrated matching activities help students associate vocabulary with realistic professional situations.
3. Grammar in context
Guided exercises practise the present tense of querer, necesitar and tener, as well as interesa and interesan.
Students also learn to distinguish between por qué, porque, por and para when explaining reasons and purposes.
4. Comic-based dialogues
An illustrated four-panel workplace comic allows students to complete and reconstruct conversations between a lawyer and a business professional preparing an important client meeting.
5. Reading comprehension
A professional email and a daily agenda provide opportunities to practise reading for specific information, including appointments, deadlines, documents and meeting preparations.
6. Listening comprehension
Two listening activities reinforce professional questions and answers, workplace vocabulary and expressions of wishes and needs.
7. Speaking and writing
Students practise describing their professional interests, exchanging messages, preparing questions for clients and explaining their personal Spanish learning priorities.
A guided role play places the student in the role of a lawyer interviewing a client about an upcoming business meeting.
8. Grammar appendix
A dedicated grammar appendix explains eight essential topics:
- Querer + infinitivo
- Necesitar
- Tener que + infinitivo
- Me gustaría
- Interesa and interesan
- Pronouns with interesar
- Expressing reasons and purposes
- Formal questions using usted and ustedes
9. Additional exercises
Eight supplementary exercise sets provide further practice in verb conjugation, pronouns, sentence correction, expressing reasons and purposes, and writing a personal professional development plan.
10. Answer key and listening transcripts
The final page contains the answer key, model answers and listening transcripts. The transcripts are designed for the teacher to read aloud, so separate audio recordings are not required.
Resource details
Level: A1–A2
Format: PDF
Length: 10 pages
Audience: Lawyers, business professionals and adult Spanish learners
Skills: Vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening, speaking and writing
Includes: Illustrated activities, professional dialogues, comic exercises, grammar appendix, additional practice, answers and listening transcripts
This resource is intended exclusively for Spanish language learning. The professional situations are educational examples and do not constitute legal or business advice.
