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Grade 3 · Unit 3 · Mi Vida Diaria

Deportes y Pasatiempos
Sports and Hobbies

What we play and how much we love it: sports, hobbies, and gustar patterns with jugar — the vocabulary of free time.

🎯 Novice Mid📚 4 lessons planned🚧 Lessons in production

Unit objectives

  • Name eight sports and hobbies
  • Say what they play and do: Juego al fútbol, toco la guitarra
  • Extend gustar: me gusta jugar / me encanta
  • Interview classmates about free time

Can-Do targets

  • I can talk about the sports and hobbies I do.
  • I can say what I love, like, and don’t like doing.
  • I can ask and report what friends do for fun.

Vocabulary scope

el fútbol, el béisbol, el baloncesto, nadar, bailar, dibujar, leer, los videojuegos, juego, me encanta

How this unit builds

Grade 1’s me gusta gains verbs (gustar + infinitive) and intensity (me encanta) — opinions become conversations.

Planned lessons

What this unit will contain

Lessons are produced in the same fully interactive format as Kindergarten — flashcards with audio, games, listening tasks, and take-home activities — and will unlock here as they are finished.

In production
Lesson 1

Los deportes — sports

In production
Lesson 2

Los pasatiempos — hobbies

In production
Lesson 3

Me encanta — loving it

In production
Lesson 4

La encuesta deportiva — the sports survey

Cultural connection

Fútbol, the shared heartbeat

Fútbol unites the Spanish-speaking world like nothing else — but béisbol rules the Caribbean. Students map which sports rule which countries and why.