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Grade 5 · Unit 1 · Puentes

Los Viajes
Travel

Packing bags and building itineraries: transportation, luggage, tickets, and planning an imaginary trip that the geography unit will bring to life.

🎯 Novice High (emerging)📚 4 lessons planned🚧 Lessons in production

Unit objectives

  • Name transportation modes and travel items
  • Plan a simple itinerary: primero vamos a…
  • Handle travel situations: tickets, times, gates
  • Pack and justify a suitcase in Spanish

Can-Do targets

  • I can plan a simple trip in Spanish.
  • I can buy a ticket and ask about departure times.
  • I can explain what I packed and why.

Vocabulary scope

el avión, el tren, el autobús, el boleto, la maleta, el pasaporte, el viaje, viajar, salir, llegar, el horario

How this unit builds

Grade 2 time-telling and Grade 4 directions merge into itinerary language; sets up the geography deep-dive next unit.

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.

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Lesson 1

El transporte — how we go

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Lesson 2

En la estación — tickets and times

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Lesson 3

La maleta — packing with reasons

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Lesson 4

Mi itinerario — trip planning

Cultural connection

Distances that surprise

Chile is longer than the USA is wide; a bus ride across Argentina can take two days. Students calibrate the true scale of the Spanish-speaking world before choosing destinations.