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Before school high intermediate: entrevistas 4/30/13

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students arrived and wrote for 10 minutes about their trips. They talked in pairs with someone who was on a different trip about their experience.

I proposed the question for conversation: ¿Por qué estudian español? (Why do you study Spanish?) Students shared their motivations for language learning. We are going to start a short unit interviewing Spanish-speakers about what Spanish has meant to them.

We listened to a song called Nadie (lyrics attached) and students had to fill in missing lyrics. The song is about how we're not born being good at something but that we learn them with time and effort (like Spanish!).

Tarea: write 7 interview questions for guests who are going to visit our class next week

Fluency level: 
Intermediate

2nd Period Matrix- 4/26

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students learned more about present tense verbs, and the basics of conjugation in the present tense (see attached sheets).
-Students worked on writing their own sentences while others finished their pages for the Alien Book.
-HOMEWORK: worksheet on present tense verbs (attached).

Class topics: 
present tense
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Before school intermediate: verbos 4/24/13

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students arrived and translated sentences using the past tense.

I quizzed students on the first 50 verbs (on attached sheet) in Spanish.

We went over the preterite conjugation and played some games (one with a bunch of verbs on the board and they had to find the correct one and another was board races).

Tarea: students need to make 25 more flashcards of the verbs (bringing total to 75 out of our 100 most common verbs).

Fluency level: 
Intermediate

3rd Period Matrix- 4/24

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students answered questions about themselves in the past tense.
-The class split up into partners to work on their bilingual books. Each pair picked the topic of their story that they plan to write.
-HOMEWORK: Pairs divided up work for themselves. Each student should know what they need to work on to be prepared for class on Friday.

Class topics: 
past tense
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

2nd Period Matrix- 4/24

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Class reviewed matching adjectives and nouns in complete sentences.
-We practiced talking about the time.
-Students finished working on their pages for the Alien Book.
-HOMEWORK: Students need to finish the written part of their page and turn it in on Friday.

Fluency level: 
Beginner

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