Spanish Level 1- Activities Designed for Online Instruction
🤔 Spanish Level 1, Activity 03: Cognados y Los Amigos Falsos / Cognates & False Friends (Online)
Practices: Marketing, socially appropriate discourse in advertising
Perspectives: Value of having a variety of choices, connections between Spanish and other world languages
World-Readiness Standards:
- Standard 1.1 – Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
- Standard 4.1 Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons between Spanish and English.
- Standard 1.2 Students understand and interpret spoken and written Spanish on a variety of topics.
- Standard 4.2 Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons between Hispanic cultures and their own.
Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:
- COMM 1.1 – Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions
- CONN 1.1 – Compare and contrast information acquired from other content areas.
- CONN 1.2 – Relate information studied in other subjects to the target language and culture.
- COMP 1.2 – Identify patterns and explain discrepancies in the sounds and the writing system in the target language.
- CONN 2.1 – Access authentic materials prepared in the target language by or for native speakers.
- COMP 2.1 – Identify, describe and compare/contrast products and their use in the target culture with the learner’s culture.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can recognize words that are similar in English and Spanish
- I can answer a simple yes or no question
- I can use cognates to guess the meaning of a word when similar to English
Materials Needed
Warm Up
Materials Needed for the Warm Up
- Open the Google Slideshow. Then, introduce the activity to students and review the can-do statements:
Hoy, vamos a hablar sobre los cognados. Un cognado es una palabra que es muy similar en inglés y español también. Por ejemplo: ¡carro es ‘car’ en español! ¿Cuál es otro ejemplo en inglés? - Go over the meaning of cognates and false cognates.
Un cognado es una palabra que es más o menos lo mismo en inglés y español. Un cognado falso, o amigo falso, es una palabra que parece lo mismo, pero no es lo mismo. - Play the Kahoot game to practice identifying cognates.
Vamos a jugar un partido de Kahoot. - When there is a false cognate in the Kahoot, explain what the false cognate actually means.
Main Activity
Materials Needed for the Main Activity
- Go through the slides with the different advertisements and ask students to identify the cognates they find
Ahora vamos a buscar los cognados en cada anuncio. ¿Cuales cognados encuentras? - Repeat with each advertisement
Wrap Up
- Ask the following wrap-up questions:
¿Cuál es tu cognado favorito? (What is your favorite cognate?)
¿En tu opinion, hay muchos o hay pocos cognados entre el inglés y el español? (In your opinion, is there lots of few cognates between English and Spanish?)
¿Qué otros cognados pueden pensar? (Can you think of other cognates?)
End of Lab
- Read can-do statements and have students evaluate their confidence with cards
- Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation
- Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!
Can-Do Statements:
- I can recognize words that are similar in English and Spanish
- I can answer a simple yes or no question
CULTURAL NOTES:
- Most helpful Spanish Cognates for Beginners
- Online Cognate practice games
- Cognados “Juego en linea”
- False Friends and Cognates
How to Revise or Remix a Pathways Project Activity
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