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Gustar: sentence order

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Class Activities: 

Students completed attached do now activity explaining their knowledge of how the verb gustar is used.

Reviewed on board how gustar is used.

Proposed a sentence that students needed to put in order:

escuela la gusta me

Students ordered the sentence: Me gusta la escuela.

Individually, students received the attached worksheet to use with the class activity. Students received a stack of notecards, each with a word on it. Students needed to put the cards in order to create a sentence, which they wrote down. Once students correctly ordered and wrote down sentences, they passed along the cards/sentence to the next person.

Tarea: translate the sentences you ordered in English (under column inglés).

Class topics: 
gustar
indirect object pronouns
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Exploring Latin America wrap up

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

For do now activity, students worked on correcting mistakes on their tests. If they did not finish, they need to compete it for homework.

Travel brochures were due. Students presented their brochures briefly to class, explaining the place, tourist package and any other important information.

Students played lotería with past tense verbs, where I presented a verb in Spanish (ella caminó) and students had to cross it off their lotería card (she walked).

Tarea: complete test corrections if you haven't already.

Class topics: 
past tense verbs
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Gustar: describing people and their likes/dislikes

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Do now activity: students corrected the mistakes in the sentences below:
1. Me gusto la escuela. (Me gusta la escuela).
2. Te encanta los perros. (Te encantan los perros).
3. Me gustan viajar. (Me gusta viajar)
4. Te gusta español. (Te gusta el español).
5. Me gusta no correr. (No me gusta correr).

Students received attached worksheet and had to match the descriptions with the students and answer questions on the second page.

Tarea: complete worksheet from class. Several students already completed the assignment in class.

Class topics: 
describing people
gustar
indirect object pronouns
asking questions
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Test on Explorning Latin America unit

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students had a few minutes at the beginning of class to review past tense verb conjugations.

Students were given attached test to complete relating to our unit. If they had time after taking their test, they could use a computer to work on their final draft of their travel brochure.

Tarea: complete travel brochure and be ready to present it on Thursday.

Class topics: 
past tense verbs
Antigua
places in a city
test
Valparaíso
Cartagena
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Gustar: me/te/le

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students completed attached do now activity.

As a class, we reviewed the verb gustar.

Me gusta el chocolate.
Te gusta el chocolate.
Me gusta estudiar.
Te gusta estudiar.
Me gustan los animales.
Te gustan los animales.

Using attached worksheet with all student names and a space to write what each person likes or dislikes. Students were to choose a like and dislike from their list of likes and dislikes. Students were then to go around and ask everyone in class what they liked and what they disliked using model below:
¿Qué te gusta? Me gusta el chocolate.
¿Qué no te gusta? No me gustan los insectos.

Reviewed use of third person singular pronoun le.
¿Qué le gusta a Liora? A Liora le gusta el océano.
¿Qué no le gusta a Liora? A Liora no le gustan los insectos.

Tarea: attached translations

Class topics: 
gustar
indirect object pronouns
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Gustar: introduction

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students corrected mistakes on their test as do now activity.

Students received a copy of the attached word list (including mostly cognates) and practiced pronunciation in pairs. Students asked if there were any vocabulary they didn't know.

Introduced gustar (to be pleasing to) and explained how it's different than most verbs.
Me gusta el chocolate (Chocolate is pleasing to me. Chocolate is doing the action)
Students asked their partner if they liked 5 things on the list:
¿Te gusta la música?
Sí, me gusta la música.
o No, no me gusta la música.

When talking about plural nouns (mountains, animals, insects), the verb changes to gustan.
¿Te gustan las montañas?
Sí, me gustan las montañas.

Tarea: 5 things students love (me encanta/n)
5 things students don't like

Class topics: 
gustar
common verbs
indirect object pronouns
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Exploring Latin America: Travel stories

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students completed attached do now activity.

Went over past tense conjugation for irregular verb ir(to go).
fui fuimos
fuiste
fue fueron

Students listened (twice) to three people talking about recent trips they've taken. While listening, students were to answer these questions:
¿Adónde fue?
¿Qué hizo?

Students were given a handout with common travel verbs, and worked in pairs to make up a story about a trip to the Spanish-speaking world.

Tarea: complete story and prepare for test on Exploring Latin America unit. Test will include: past tense verbs about travel, direction vocabulary (north, south, go to the left, etc.), information about Cartagena, Antigua, and Valparaíso, and places in a city.

Class topics: 
past tense verbs
travel vocabulary
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Latin American cities: quiz

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students completed attached quiz (without notes). If your student was absent today, please have them complete and bring the quiz to me. It took most students around 10 to 15 minutes to complete.

Students completed a word scramble (attached) with vocabulary related to places in a city.

Tarea: bring in a list of 5 things you like and 5 activities you like (and can look them up in a dictionary or at wordreference.com.

Class topics: 
places in a city
adjectives that describe cities
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Exploring Latin America: travel brochure

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students completed attached do now activity.

Students were paired up to create a travel brochure (see explanation attached) to a tourist destination in the Spanish-speaking world. Students were given time together and had access to a computer to plan and start working on their brochure. The brochure should promote and describe the tourist destination, put together a 5-7 day trip that they are promoting as a package, and explain how to get to the destination. Students were to divide tasks and come to class on Thursday with a rough draft.

Tarea: complete rough draft of travel brochure

Class topics: 
places in a city
descriptions
writing
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Latin American cities: preparing for quiz

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students completed attached do now activity.

To review our unit describing cities, students completed attached worksheet. They did as much as they could without using notes and then could use notes if necessary.

Tarea: review information about DF, Cusco, and Buenos Aires. Students will take a quiz on Wednesday that is very similar to classroom activity today.

Fluency level: 
Beginner

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