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3rd Period Matrix- 10/21

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students practiced conversational skills by asking one another questions and responding correctly.
-Students learned a new question, "¿De dónde eres?", "Where are you from?". You may respond with, "Soy de Colorado" or "Soy de los estados unidos".
-We reviewed how to give directions to someone.
-Students played an "Amazing Race" game by splitting up in teams and following directions to clues hidden around the school.
-For next class, we will play another version of the "Amazing Race" game, using directions that students began writing this class period for the other team.

Class topics: 
directions
asking directions
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

2nd Period Matrix- 10/21

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students practiced conversational skills by asking one another questions and responding correctly.
-Students reviewed directional commands and body parts vocabulary by playing "Simon Dice"
-Students learned how to conjugate the verbs "ser" and "estar" according to the person you are talking about or to. (see attachment for the conjugations)
-We discussed and reviewed when to use "ser" and "estar" (see previous lesson for explanation attachment)

Class topics: 
ser
directions
estar
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Before School- En la tienda (10/21)

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students practiced conversational skills by asking one another questions and giving the correct response
-Students presented their "shopping" experience to the rest of the class. Each took turns selling the items in their store they created and shopping in another student's store.
-Students were evaluated on their pronunciation, vocabulary, confidence, and completion of the assignment.
-Homework sheet is due next class period (Wed 10/26) (see attachment)

Class topics: 
clothing
fit
shopping
cost
Fluency level: 
Beginner

3rd Period Matrix- 10/19

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students practiced conversational skills in class. Those who missed class last period took the oral quiz.
-We reviewed directional commands and how to give directions to others. We practiced giving directions around the school to different classrooms.
-We reviewed transportation vocabulary and talked about what type of transportation you would use to go to different locations. (see previous lessons for vocab list and explanations)

Class topics: 
directions
transportation
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

2nd Period Matrix- 10/19

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students practiced conversational skills in class.
-We reviewed directional vocabulary by doing an exercise similar to the homework assignment. (see past lesson for explanation)
-Students were introduced to the two different ways of saying "I am" in Spanish. See attachment for the list of how to use them.

Class topics: 
ser
directions
estar
Fluency level: 
Beginner

La cocina: salsas

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students arrived and started working on their salsa. Each group had chosen a main ingredient for their salsa (piña, durazno, tomates, y mango) which was provided along with other typical salsa ingredientes (limón, jalepeño, sal, pimienta, cebolla). In groups, students made their salsas. After cleaning up their space, we all taste tested salsas and talked about them.

Tarea: study for next week's test about food including the page about music vocabulary.

Class topics: 
recetas
cocina latinoamericana
salsa
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Música latina: repaso y preparación para el examen

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students gave definitions to the following music words:

Escribe la palabra en español
to dance
to play (an instrument)
to sing
sound
concert
singer
radio
voice
style
song
lyrics
music
rhythm
artist
instrument
band/group

In a big group, we reviewed what we had learned about each artist/group. Using attached worksheet, we went over what is going to be on next Wednesday's (October 24th) test about music.

Students competed in their groups to answer review questions for the test.

Tarea: study for next Wednesday's test (including above music vocabulary, attached verbs, information about artists, identification of country/nationality, identification of artist by song).

Class topics: 
música
examen
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Música latina: proyectos

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students received a map and identified all of the countries they could. We talked about where our Latin American artists are from.

Students were divided into groups and were given one of our artists. Each group is going to make a poster sharing information about the artist. Posters should include a biography about the artist/group, a photo and a flag of their country. The remaining space can be used sharing whatever other information students would like to present. Students had some time to work in groups to work on writing a biography of their artist/group as well as design their layout.

Tarea: complete biography of artist.

Fluency level: 
Beginner

Before School: En la tienda (10/19)

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students reviewed how to talk about cost.
-Students reviewed how to express how clothing fits. See past lessons for explanation.
-Students reviewed how to ask for what they're looking for and for the correct size. See previous lesson for explanation.
-Students learned how to respond when a sales attendant asks, "¿Necesitas ayuda?" ("Do you need help?"). You can say, "Si..." and then ask for the item you are looking for.
-FOR FRIDAY: We will be acting out a shopping experience for one another in class on Friday. Each student is to create their own store to "sell" items. Each store should sell at least five items. The items should have specific prices UNDER $50. Students may choose to offer only specific colors or sizes if they wish. Students should either draw the store items on a piece of paper or may choose to bring things in for demonstration. I will hand out dialog sheet to the students on Friday including the questions they will cover in the interaction. Each student will have a turn "shopping" and being the sales attendant for their store.

Class topics: 
money
clothing
fit
shopping
cost
Fluency level: 
Beginner

3rd Period Matrix- 10/14

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students took an oral quiz on conversational questions. Those who missed class will need to take the quiz when they return to class. See previous lesson for the study sheet attachment.
-Students practiced writing out numbers in Spanish. If you missed class, practice with some at home: 54, 67, 89, 34, 23, 77, 91, 26.
-Students reviewed how to tell time in Spanish. Remember that for one o'clock you say, "Es la una...". For other times you say, "Son las...".
-We reviewed basic directions from last class: right, left, forward, and back.
-Students learned two more directions: up and down, "arriba" and "abajo".
-We played "Simon Dice" (Simon Says) to practice with body parts, commands, and the directions we learned this week.
-Students learned how to ask for and give directions:
Turn left/right = "Gira a la izquierda/derecha"
Continue forward/backward = "Sigue adelante/de atrás"
Go up/down = "Va arriba/abajo"
-Students practiced by giving directions to different classrooms in the school.
-We reviewed transportation vocabulary from last class period.
-Students were given two worksheets for homework, one on directions and the other on transportation vocabulary. They are both due next class period (10/17). See attachment for the worksheets.

Class topics: 
directions
transportation
asking for directions
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

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