Description
Develop the Spanish needed to describe professional experience, discuss workplace skills and participate in team selection with this illustrated eight-page A1 lesson, designed for lawyers, business professionals and adult learners.
Experiencia y habilidades en el equipo combines practical workplace vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar, listening and guided communication activities. Students explore a fictional international project involving professionals in Spain and Latin America, learning to describe their previous experience, personal qualities and availability.
What the lesson includes
1. Professional vocabulary and personal qualities
Students learn to describe colleagues using adjectives such as organizado, puntual, responsable, comunicativo, paciente, despistado, nervioso and optimista.
Matching and sentence completion activities reinforce vocabulary, adjective agreement and expressions such as muy, bastante and un poco.
2. Reading comprehension: An international project
Students read a professional email about selecting a team for a project involving a company in Chile.
The text introduces language for discussing previous experience, preparing contracts, reviewing documents, writing reports and participating in international meetings.
3. Grammar: The pretérito perfecto
The lesson explains how to form and use the pretérito perfecto with haber and the past participle.
Students practise regular and irregular participles, including hecho, escrito, visto and dicho, and expressions for describing experience such as alguna vez, nunca, varias veces and muchas veces.
4. Experience, ability and availability
A dedicated section compares three useful structures:
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He preparado informes to describe experience.
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Sé preparar informes to describe an acquired skill.
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Puedo preparar el informe hoy to express availability or possibility.
Students practise choosing between saber and poder in realistic workplace situations.
5. Listening comprehension: A professional interview
Students listen to an interview with a lawyer discussing his international experience, language and technical skills, personal qualities and availability.
Activities include identifying previous professional activities and completing an information table.
6. Team selection, discussion and role play
Students compare professional profiles and select a suitable person to present an international project.
Guided speaking activities encourage them to justify their decisions using experience, skills and availability. A structured role play allows students to conduct a professional interview.
7. Professional writing
Students write a short email of 40 to 50 words recommending a colleague for a project, using the vocabulary and grammar practised throughout the lesson.
8. Grammar appendix and additional exercises
A two-column grammar appendix explains eight topics, including the pretérito perfecto, participles, frequency expressions, saber and poder, personal qualities, adjective agreement and formal questions with usted.
Eight additional exercise sets provide further practice.
9. Complete answers and transcript
The PDF includes answers to the lesson and additional exercises, together with the transcript of the professional interview.
| Resource details | |
|---|---|
| Level | A1 |
| Format | Downloadable PDF |
| Length | 8 pages |
| Topic | Professional experience, workplace skills and team selection |
| Grammar | Pretérito perfecto, participles, saber, poder and adjective agreement |
| Skills | Vocabulary, reading, listening, grammar, speaking and writing |
| Includes | Grammar appendix, additional exercises, answers and transcript |
Internet access and external links
The PDF includes a clickable link to the accompanying listening recording. Internet access is required to complete the listening comprehension activities. The interview transcript is included in the resource.
This resource is intended for Spanish language learning rather than legal or business training.
