The Hodge-Tate decomposition for an abelian variety is a p-adic analogue of the Hodge decomposition of a complex algebraic variety which allows us to relate the étale cohomology of a variety to its Hodge cohomology groups. In this talk, we sketch a proof of this decomposition for H^1 of an abelian variety over a p-adic field with good reduction. The only prerequisites are the basic facts about p-adic fields and abelian varieties.