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Tour of Cartagena - Advanced (listening exercise)

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Class Goals: 

To practice listening and vocabulary about trips, and to practice commands and future tense.

Class Activities: 

Listen to the attached auditory exercise about Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

Download the attached Tour por Cartagena de Indias document which has pictures of the places you will "see" on your tour. As you listen to the guide taking you around Cartagena, put the photos in order of the places you visit.

The transcript is also attached.

Class topics: 
listening comprehension
travel vocabulary
future
Fluency level: 
Advanced

Time (practicing telling time and schedules)

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Class Activities: 

Students completed attached do now activity.

Comprehensión auditiva: telling time

Introduced to students:
comienza (to start)/ termina (to end)

La clase de español comienza a las ocho.
La clase de español termina a las ocho y veinticinco.

Students received a sheet with several blank clocks. They listened and drew on the clock face what time each class started and ended.

Matemáticas: 8:45-9:15
Ciencias: 9:25 - 10:05
Arte: 10:13 - 10:50
educación física: 10:55 - 11:43
música: 11:58 - 12:20

Students started writing out their schedule for one day, using the classes above and adding on new vocabulary:
desayuno (breakfast)
almuerzo (lunch)
cena (dinner)
teatro (theater)
literatura (literature)
lectura (reading)
recreo (recess)

Tarea: students will bring in their typical schedule for the week including classes and after-school activities. The schedule should include times (ej. 8:00 español).

Class topics: 
numbers
telling time
schedules
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Time (telling time)

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Class Activities: 

Students practiced larger numbers with do now activity.

How to tell time in Spanish

Important vocabulary:
a las at
llegar to arrive
salir to leave
media half (used when telling time as 30)
cuarto quarter (used when telling time as 15 minutes)
menos minus

Los estudiantes llegan a las ocho. The students arrive at 8 in the morning.
Los estudiantes salen a las ocho y media. The students leave at 8:30.
Los estudiantes llegan a las nueve menos cuarto. The students arrive at 8:45 (literally 9 minus a quarter). This can also be said as Los estudiantes llegan a las ocho y cuarenta y cinco.
Los estudiantes salen a las diez y cuarto. _The students leave at 10:15.

Students received attached bus schedule. We went over vocabulary as a class, and students were to answer the questions in complete sentences.

Tarea: complete bus schedule questions.

Class topics: 
telling time
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Ocio: deportes 2

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Class Activities: 

The warm up activity for students was to write indirect object pronouns on a flashcard (me, te, le, nos, les). These are pronouns we use with gustar.

Students were given 10 minutes to work in their groups on their sport presentations. Three groups presented, while other students listened and wrote down what they learned in attached documents.

Next class, the remaining two groups will present and we will complete the listening activity where Spanish-speakers from various countries talk about the sports/exercise they like to do.

Tarea: correct tests. Students were given their tests back with mistakes underlined. They need to fix mistakes they made.

Class topics: 
deportes
listening exercise
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Time (numbers 1-1000)

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Class Activities: 

Students completed attached do now activity.

As a class, we reviewed numbers 1-1000. Drilled numbers by asking students what year they were born.

Using the phrase Mi fecha de nacimiento es el 18 de noviembre de 1999 students got in line in order of age (using year of birth). Students all repeated the year that they were born.

Tarea: students are to match the most likely photo with the description of the person's schedule in the activity attached. There will be some new vocabulary that students can look up in a dictionary or online at wordreference.

Class topics: 
numbers
date of birth

Time related vocabulary (numbers 1-100, months)

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Class Activities: 

Students completed attached do now activity reviewing numbers.

We continued practicing time-related vocabulary where I described a word and they needed to guess what word.
Ej. Es el día entre miércoles y viernes. jueves
La _________ de hoy es el 24 de enero. fecha

We practiced numbers 1-100. Students were to have memorized numbers 1-20, and I presented numbers 20-100. In pairs, students received a pair of dice and alternated rolling them while the other students called out the number.

Students learned the following phrases:
¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños? When is your birthday?
Mi cumpleaños es el 17 de enero. My birthday is the 17th of January.

Using these questions, students lined themselves up in order of birthday.

Tarea: memorize numbers 1-100 and write down numbers in Spanish from 1-1000. When writing numbers down, it's only necessary to count by hundreds (200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000) and provide one number between (205, 334, 482).

Class topics: 
months
numbers
days of week
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Review test

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Class Activities: 

We've been working on a big grammar review the last few weeks and students took the test (attached) today. Several students were not in class today so please give your students the test and have them bring it in Thursday.

When students finished, they paired up and chose a sport that they need to describe and explain how to play using the vocabulary from our recent sport activity. They should keep their explanation relatively simple (what equipment is needed, how many players, etc.) and bring visual aids (photos for more involved sports or if their sport were soccer, a soccer ball).

Tarea: complete writing description of sport and bring visual aids on Thursday. Students will have a few minutes at the beginning of class to prepare presentation with their group and then will present to class.

Class topics: 
deportes
repaso
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Time related vocabulary (review, new vocabulary, numbers 1-20)

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Class Goals: 

To review and introduce time-related vocabulary so that students can talk about

Class Activities: 

Students complete attached activity to practice talking about time.

Introduced new vocabulary:
el día (day)
What are the parts of the day?
la mañana (the morning)
la tarde (the afternoon)
la noche (the night)
Hay 24 horas en un día.
Hay 7 días en una semana.
Hay 4 semanas en un mes.
Hay 12 meses en un año.

Practiced vocabulary by giving clues and students gave response:
_____ es miércoles. Hoy.
La _____ de hoy es el 19 de enero. fecha

Numbers 1-100 were written on the board. Students wrote down numbers 1-20.

Tarea: Continue to review all time vocabulary (days, months, seasons, and vocabulary from today). Memorize numbers 1-20.

Class topics: 
days
months
general time vocabulary
numbers
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Ocio: deportes

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Class Activities: 

Students conjugated a verb in each of the categories for stem-changing verbs for do now activity. We are collecting students do now activities from the last few weeks on flashcards so that students will have them to study.

(e:ie) like querer
(o:ue) like poder
(e:i) like pedir

As a class, we started talking about our new unit: ocio (leisure). Students shared various free time activities they like to do. We started focusing on one cagegory, deportes (sports). In pairs, students received the attached worksheet where they were to identify the sports described. Went over answers after students had 25 minutes to work.

Tarea: study for review exam. On Thursday we will spend some time preparing before students will take test.

Class topics: 
ocio
deportes
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Days of the week/months

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Class Activities: 

Students wrote words in Spanish for following verbs:
I am
She/he is
I have
She/he has
I like
She/he likes
My name is
Her/his name is

Went over time related vocabulary (attached worksheet). Students matched up days of the week and wrote months in order. Talked about time as a class and asked students which their favorite month/season is. Introduced new vocabulary (seasons, date, today).

Tarea: know all vocabulary on worksheet

Class topics: 
days
months
time vocabulary
Fluency level: 
Beginner

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