Description
¿Qué ha hecho esta semana? is a comprehensive, illustrated 14-page A2 Spanish lesson designed for lawyers, business professionals and adult learners who want to describe recent activities, discuss professional experiences and communicate about completed and pending tasks.
The lesson focuses on the pretérito perfecto compuesto, with particular attention to irregular past participles, through realistic workplace situations, professional emails, illustrated dialogues and guided communication activities.
What does the lesson include?
1. Reading comprehension and professional vocabulary
Students begin with an email from a lawyer describing her working day and recent activities. Vocabulary exercises introduce expressions such as poner al día, comprobar, descubrir and proveedor.
2. Workplace actions
Illustrated activities introduce common professional actions, including opening an office, writing reports, resolving problems, returning documents and organising files.
Students practise forming the pretérito perfecto using haber and irregular participles.
3. Irregular past participles
A dedicated section develops the use of irregular participles such as hecho, dicho, escrito, visto, puesto, abierto, vuelto, roto, resuelto and cubierto.
Additional exercises explore verb families, including proponer, disponer, deshacer, contradecir, devolver and descubrir.
4. Apologising and explaining problems
Illustrated workplace dialogues teach students how to apologise for delays, forgotten documents, missed trains and email attachments.
Guided role plays encourage learners to explain what has happened and propose solutions.
5. Listening comprehension
A professional conversation between Lucía and Omar introduces recent activities, telephone calls, corrections to documents and meeting preparations.
Students complete an information table and answer true or false questions.
6. Describing personal and professional experiences
Two reading texts describe a lawyer’s summer in Valencia and a commercial manager’s experiences in London.
Students practise describing experiences, discussing travel and asking questions using alguna vez and nunca.
7. Planning a business trip
A practical activity follows a lawyer preparing for a business trip to Buenos Aires.
Students distinguish completed and pending tasks using ya, todavía no and aún no.
8. Expressing opinions and agreement
Four professional profiles introduce language for discussing working from home, meetings, learning Spanish and professional relationships.
Students practise creo que, para mí, estoy de acuerdo con usted and no estoy de acuerdo con ella, as well as conmigo and contigo.
9. Professional writing and role play
Students write a professional email of 70 to 90 words explaining completed tasks, apologising for an omission and proposing a solution.
A guided role play places the learner in the role of a lawyer speaking with a client about outstanding documents.
10. Two-page grammar appendix
The grammar appendix covers the formation and use of the pretérito perfecto, regular and irregular participles, verb families, regional variation, time expressions, pronoun placement, apologies and expressions of opinion.
It also introduces useful participles in legal contexts, including interpuesto, impuesto, opuesto, absuelto and previsto.
11. Additional exercises
Twelve supplementary exercise sets reinforce conjugation, irregular participles, spelling, sentence correction, professional vocabulary, email completion and personal experiences.
12. Complete answers and listening transcript
The final page provides answer keys, model responses and the transcript of the listening conversation.
Resource details
- Level: A2
- Format: Downloadable PDF
- Length: 14 pages
- Audience: Lawyers, business professionals and adult Spanish learners
- Grammar: Pretérito perfecto compuesto, regular and irregular participles
- Skills: Vocabulary, reading, listening, grammar, speaking and writing
- Includes: Illustrated activities, professional dialogues, grammar appendix, additional exercises, answers and listening transcript
Listening and internet requirements
Internet access is required for the activities as presented.
This resource is intended exclusively for Spanish language learning. The professional scenarios are educational examples and do not constitute legal or business advice.
