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Grade 8 · Unit 2 · Mi Voz en Español

Planes Futuros
Future Plans

High school, careers, and dreams — the simple future tense joins voy a, and students articulate real plans with reasons: what’s next and why.

🎯 Intermediate Low (exit target)📚 5 lessons planned🚧 Lessons in production

Unit objectives

  • Form the simple future: estudiaré, seré, viviré
  • Discuss high school plans and career interests
  • Connect goals to reasons and steps
  • Interpret authentic career-day videos

Can-Do targets

  • I can describe my plans for high school and beyond.
  • I can explain the steps toward a goal.
  • I can understand young people discussing their futures.

Vocabulary scope

estudiaré, seré, trabajaré, la carrera, la meta, el sueño, planear, lograr, dentro de cinco años, el futuro

How this unit builds

Grade 5’s voy a matures into the full future tense; goal language from the portfolio thread becomes personal strategic planning.

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 futuro simple — the tense

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Lesson 2

Mi camino — high school plans

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Lesson 3

La carrera — careers explored

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Lesson 4

Los pasos — goals into steps

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Lesson 5

IPA: Mi futuro

Cultural connection

Many roads from fifteen

University at 17, apprenticeships, family businesses, el norte — young people across the Spanish-speaking world walk different roads after school. Students compare paths without ranking them.