Spanish Level 1, Activity 10: Estás Invitado / You are Invited (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.
- COMP 1.1 – Observe formal and informal forms of language.
- COMP 1.3 – Compare and analyze idiomatic expressions in the target language.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can accept or reject an invitation
- I can invite and make plans with someone
- I can exchange information about when to meet and where to go, such as the store, the movie theatre, a concert, a restaurant, the lab
Materials Needed
Warm Up
Materials Needed for Warm Up
- Begin by opening the slideshow and introducing the can-do statements.
Hola, ¿cómo están? Estoy ____. Vamos a empezar el lab de hoy con los can-do statements. - Play the linked Kahoot! game to practice/learn ways to accept/reject invitations
Vamos a jugar Kahoot para practicar y aprender frases para aceptar y rechazar invitaciones. - Assign the invitations to the students and tell them that they are going to invite each other to a party.
Tengo unas invitaciones para unos eventos para ustedes. - Using one invitation, invite the students to model what they will do.
Ahora voy a mostrarles cómo invitar a un amigo o una amiga a un evento. Después de escuchar a mi invitación, tienen que aceptar o rechazar mi invitación. - Now, ask the students who wants to accept the invitation and who wants to reject the invitation, and why/why not.
¿Quién quiere aceptar mi invitación? ¿Porque sí o porque no? - Students will then practice by inviting the class to their assigned event
Main Activity
Materials Needed for Main Activity
- Each student will make an invitation that they will use to invite the class to a hypothetical activity.
Cada estudiante va a hacer una invitación que les guste y un plan para invitar a sus amigos. - Students will have 5-7 minutes to plan an event using the template provided. They can use a computer document or a pencil and paper. You can also ask them to draw or search for an image to represent the event if they would like.
Tienen siete minutos para crear una invitación para la clase. Necesitan incluir toda la información en el ejemplo. Puede usar la computadora o un papel y lápiz y pueden incluir una foto si quieren. - After the time is up, students will invite the rest of the group to their event. Every other student will respond by saying if they would like to attend or not and why.
Después de siete minutos, los estudiantes van a invitar al resto del grupo a su evento uno por uno. Cada otro estudiante va a responder con una respuesta apropiada (sí/no y por qué).
Wrap Up
- Ask the following questions as a wrap up:
- ¿Cuál es tu pasatiempo favorito?
- ¿Prefieres ir a un concierto u obra de teatro?
- ¿Te gusta ir a eventos deportivos?
- ¿Haces invitaciones con papel o usando alguna tecnología?
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 accept or reject an invitation
- I can invite and make plans with someone
- I can exchange information about when to meet and where to go, such as the store, the movie theatre, a concert, a restaurant, the lab
Cultural NOtes:
- Spanish Vocabulary Quizlet: Invitation
- How To Accept and Decline an Invitation
- Invitaciones para una Quinceañera
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