Spanish Level 1, Activity 09: ¡Tantas preguntas! / So Many Questions! (Online)
Description: This activity will help students practice initiating conversations in Spanish with someone. They will use phrases and vocabulary that will help them gather information from others and give information about themselves. Students will talk about school life, weather, and activities they enjoy.
Semantic Topics: Hobbies, school, weather, sports, questions, pasatiempos, escuela, clima, deportes, preguntas
Grammatical Structures: Verbs, present tense, sentence subjects, questions in Spanish, verbos, verbos en el presente, subjetos de la oración, preguntas en español
Practices: Expressing emotions, preferences, and opinions
Perspectives: The importance of being able to share and ask about emotions, preferences, and opinions
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
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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