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Profiling 5 Latin American musicians

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Goals: 

For students to continue to plan and work on their poster profiling one of our 5 artists.

Class Activities: 

Students receive a map of the Spanish speaking world for their do now activity. They have to label each artist's country and nationality on the map.

Julieta Venegas (México, mexicana)
Daddy Yankee (Puerto Rico, puertorriqueño)
Jorge Drexler (Uruguay, uruguayo)
Juan Luis Guerra (La República Dominicana, dominicano)
Bebe (España, española)

Students have the remainder of class to lay our their design of the poster and start putting everything together.

Homework: complete poster with information about their artist.

Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Describing people: inventing characters

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Goals: 

To utilize recent vocabulary around adjectives, professions, nationalities, and family.

Class Activities: 

Complete attached do now activity.

Review and complete story of Esmerelda.

Last part of story:
Esmerelda viaja a España.
Conoce a Guillermo.
Guillermo tiene 80 años.
Es simpático, viejo, y gracioso.
Es perfecto!
Guillermo es el nuevo mejor amigo de Esmerelda.
FIN

In pairs, students create a small poster inventing a character of their own. Using vocabulary we've been working on, students draw and describe their invented person, including profession, nationality, physical description, personality and family. Verbs to use: se llama, tiene, es.

Complete invented person for homework.

Class topics: 
adjectives
professions
nationalities
family
Fluency level: 
Beginner

5th artist: Daddy Yankee

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Goals: 

To learn about our 5th and final artist nominated for the 2010 Latin Grammy, practicing past tense verbs and using music-related vocabulary.

Class Activities: 

Start with attached do now activity (translations utilizing vocabulary we've been working on).

Students receive attached profile of artist (Ramón "Raymond" Luis Ayala Rodríguez known artistically as Daddy Yankee). In pairs answered questions below.

Identify artist's country on map (Puerto Rico) and define nationality (puertorriqueño).

Students were divided up in groups of 2-3 and each will be putting together a visual display with information about their artist and his/her life. Students randomly chose one of the artists, and divided up responsibilities for homework.

Requisitos (requirements): photo of artist, information about artist's life, nationality, and nomination they've received for this year's Latin Grammy. Students can also add more information about the artist, including a timeline of their life, information about instruments they play, etc.

Tarea (homework): Students are to bring in whatever they were in charge of for the poster, which they will have some time to work with their partner on Thursday.

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

Describing people: La historia de Esmerelda parte 2

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Goals: 

To complete a story utilizing recent vocabulary and verbs: tener, ser, llamarse, adjectives that describe people.

Class Activities: 

Start with do now activity (attached) related to our story last Wednesday.

Reviewed story up to this point:

Esmerelda (la protagonista) tiene 75 años.
Es generosa, elegante, y guapa.
Esmerelda tiene un problema. Quiere encontrar a un mejor amigo.
Primero, viaja a Colombia por avión.
Conoce a Jorge.
Jorge tiene 13 años y es amigable y joven.
Pero hay un problema con Jorge: es molestoso (annoying).
Jorge no es el mejor amigo de Esmerelda (porque es molestoso).

Entonces, Esmerelda viaja a Argentina para encontrar a su mejor amigo.
Conoce a Lionel Messi.
Messi tiene 25 años.
Es trabajador y alto.
Pero hay un problema con Messi: es serio.
Messi no es el mejor amigo de Esmerelda porque es serio.

Entonces viaja a España por barco.
Conoce a Guillermo.
Guillermo tiene 80 años.
...to be continued...

Tarea (homework): Using attached worksheet, complete a picture sequence of our story (so far) writing the basic story plot below the drawings. Students my want to leave the last one or two boxes blank to be filled in Wednesday for the end of the story.

Class topics: 
adjectives
tener
ser
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Describing people: La historia de Esmerelda

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Goals: 

For students to practice recent vocabulary describing people through inventing and following along with a class story.

Class Activities: 

Students arrive and complete the do now activity (attached below) to practice adjectives that describe people.

As a class, we're inventing a story to utilize some of the vocabulary and structures we've been working on recently. We're using TPRS to tell the story, which uses a lot of repetition and is done entirely in Spanish.

New vocabulary we're using for this story:
quiere encontrar a un mejor amigo (she wants to find a best friend)
viaja a (she travels to)
conoce a (she meets)
por tren (by train)
por avión (by plane)
por carro (by car)

Story so far (that we've created together):

Esmerelda (la protagonista) tiene 75 años.
Es generosa, elegante, y guapa.

Esmerelda tiene un problema. Quiere encontrar a un mejor amigo.
Primero, viaja a Colombia por avión.
Conoce a Jorge.
...to be continued...
The rest of the story aims to practice our ability at this point to describe people (physically, personality, nationality, age, name) and to practice our new phrases above.

Tarea (homework): students need to make flashcards out of the vocabulary we're working on including: words to describe people (worksheet attached), family members (students should have this in their notes as we've worked on it several times), and the verb tener (definition below). We've been working on all of these concepts the last several weeks.

tener (to have)
tengo (I have)
tienes (you have)
(él, ella, usted) tiene (he/she/you formal have)
tenemos (we have)
(ellos, ustedes) tienen (they/y'all have)

Class topics: 
adjectives
tener
describing people
Fluency level: 
Beginner

4th Latin Artist: Bebe

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Goals: 

Learn about the life of our fourth artist, Bebe, and practice past tense verbs and music-related vocabulary.

Class Activities: 

Start class with attached do now activity (matching vocabulary words related to music).

Go over word definitions as a class.

Students share their homework as a group--a biography of artist Bebe.

Students read attached biography in groups of two and answer questions about the artist. Go over answers as big group.

Listen to parts of 2 of Bebe's most famous songs, and students come up with words to describe them.

Homework: Students research Puertorican reggaeton artist Daddy Yankee

Class topics: 
Music
past tense verbs
music vocabulary
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

3rd Latin Artist: Juan Luis Guerra

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Do now: students arrive and answer questions on attached "do now" worksheet relating to their homework (listening to two Jorge Drexler songs).

La República Dominicana: Students share the information they learned about the Dominican Republic. Identify the DR on map of Latin America and define nationality (dominicano).

Juan Luis Guerra: Our 3rd artist is Juan Luis Guerra from the Dominican Republic. In pairs, students alternate reading attached bio and answer true and false questions. Review answers as a class.

Listening activity: students listen to parts of Jorge Drexler and Juan Luis Guerra songs and identify the artist.

Tarea (homework): research fourth artist: Bebe. Students write 5 sentences about the artist's life, using verbs they know (es/tiene/le gusta) or past tense verbs we've been working on recently.

Class topics: 
Music
past tense verbs
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

El rey de la montaña (King of the Hill)

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Title: El rey de la montaña (King of the Hill)
Released: 2007
Director:: Gonzalo López-Gallego

Plot Summary

This Spanish thriller is the story of mysterious Bea who meets the likable Quim by chance in a gas station. Both end up stranded in a remote forest and rely on each other for survival when they are targeted by an unknown sniper.

Topics: 
Cine - Movies
Tags: 
Spain
thriller

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