Spanish Level 1- Activities Designed for Online Instruction
❓ Spanish Level 1, Activity 09: ¡Tantas preguntas! / So Many Questions! (Online)
World-Readiness Standards:
- Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
- Standard 1.2 Students understand and interpret spoken and written Spanish on a variety of topics.
- Standard 1.3 Students present information, concepts, and ideas in Spanish to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:
- COMM 1.1 – Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions
- COMM 2.1 – Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
- COMM 3.1 – Present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media in the target language.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
I can…
- provide basic personal information
- make simple statements in a conversation
- answer a variety of simple questions
Materials Needed
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Warm Up
Materials Needed for Warm Up
- Begin by opening the Google Slideshow and introducing the Can-Do Statements.
Hola, ¿cómo están? Estoy ____. Vamos a empezar el lab de hoy con los can-do statements. - Create a new class on the whiteboard website and then share the link with students. Once they have joined the class, you are going to have access to the students’ boards.
- This activity is similar to Mad-Libs! Every student will have access to a virtual whiteboard. Each person will be assigned a specific task. One student will write a subject, another will write a verb, and another will write a place or location. You can assign multiple students to write verbs if there are more than three students in the lab.
Para el calentamiento, cada persona va a tener una pizarra virtual. Una persona necesita escribir un sujeto (persona), otra persona va escribir un verbo, y la otra un lugar. Por ejemplo: Shakira, Bailar, Panda Express. - Instruct the students to work together to create a complete sentence that incorporates the subject, verb, and location, with the verb conjugated to match the subject! (Repeat this warm-up three to four times, and instruct students to change roles each time so that everyone has the opportunity to contribute a subject, verb, and location at least once.)
Vamos a trabajar juntos para formar una frase completa con un sujeto, verbo y lugar. Ej: Shakira baila en Panda Express. Bueno, ahora vamos a cambiar de papeles. Tú vas a escribir el sujeto, tú el verbo y tú el lugar.
Main Activity
Materials Needed for Main Activity
- Lab assistant, click on the hyperlink that says ¿Qué te gusta hacer? This will take you to a Thing Link.
- By clicking on the yellow question mark on each theme, you are able to access a list of questions related to the theme. Begin by asking a student which theme they would like, then choose a question from the list to ask them. After they respond, they will ask another student which theme they would like and will ask them a question from that theme’s respective list. Continue this for multiple rounds.
Cada tema tiene una lista de preguntas. Voy a empezar. Despues de responder, por favor preguntar a otro estudiante. “Estudiante, ¿cúal tema?” *student will pick a topic and instructor will ask a question from the list.*
Wrap Up
- Ask the students to share something they learned about one of their group members.
Vamos a compartir algo nuevo de una persona en el grupo. (We will share something new about a person in the group)
Ej. ______ le gusta ir a Roaring Springs en el verano en Boise (Ex. _____ likes to go to Roaring Springs during the summer)
End of Lab
- Read can-do statements and have students evaluate their confidence in the chatbox
- Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation
Can-Do Statements: I can…
- provide basic personal information
- make simple statements in a conversation
- answer a variety of simple questions
Cultural NOtes:
- 49 Spanish Questions You Need To Know to Speak like a Native
- Top 10 Questions In Spanish
- Preguntas Quizlet
- Personal Information Vocabulary
- Personal Information Quizlet
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