Spanish Level 3, Activity 05: Medios de Comunicación / Media (Online)
Products: Technology, smartphones, text messages, word cloud
Practices: Giving suggestions and advice, working together in a group, problem-solving
Perspectives: The importance of good communication, how to address complicated or tricky situations
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.
CONN 2.1 – Access authentic materials prepared in the target language by or for native speakers.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can initiate conversations in the target language
- I can bring the conversation to a close
- I can give reasons for my preference
- I can hold conversations regarding personal opinions with others in the target language (intercultural)
Materials Needed
Warm Up
1. Begin by introducing the Can-Dos for today’s activity and displaying the Google Slideshow on the screen.
Hoy vamos a discutir el uso diario de la technología. Vamos a charlar sobre con quién hablamos con regularidad y cómo contactamos a ellos. También vamos a decidir cómo navegar unas situaciones de manera apropriada.
2. Students will answer open-ended questions. They will express their opinion and the reasoning behind that opinion.
- ¿Qué es lo que te gusta sobre los mensajes de texto?¿Qué no te gusta?
- En tu vida diaria, ¿quién te manda mensajes de texto, te escribe correo electrónicos o te llama por teléfono frecuentemente?
- ¿Eres una de esas personas que se comunica más texteando o hablando por teléfono?
- ¿Cuáles son las ventajas y desventajas de conocer a un amig@ en línea?
Main Activity
1. Have the students go into breakout rooms and discuss the following questions!
- Si tuvieran la oportunidad de enviar un mensaje de texto a sí mismos cuando eran pequeños, ¿qué consejos se darían?
- ¿Cuál es el mejor consejo que han recibido? ¿Quién te lo dijo? ¿Por qué es lo mejor para ti?
Wrap Up
Ask students wrap-up questions to finish the activity. Have students show a classmate their most recently used emojis to see if they have any in common. Have them explain the stories behind their most recently used emojis.
- Tienes que eliminar un emoji. ¿Cuál eliminarías? (You have to eliminate an emoji, which do you eliminate?)
- ✋👆👉👍👤👦👧👨👩👪💃🏃💑❤😂😉😋😒😭👶😸🐟🍒🍔💣📌📖🔨🎃🎈🎨🏈🏰🌏🔌🔑
- Un día mandas un mensaje de texto para tu novio/a a uno de tus padres. ¿Qué harías? (One day you send a text message for your partner to one of your parents, what would you do?)
- ¿Cómo crees que los celulares van a avanzar en 10 años? (How do you think cellphones will advance in 10 years?)
End of Activity
- Read Can-Do statements once more and have students evaluate their confidence. (Use thumbs up/thumbs down or download our student cards.)
- Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation.
- Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future activities!
Can-Do Statements:
- I can initiate conversations in the target language
- I can bring the conversation to a close
- I can give reasons for my preference
- I can hold conversations regarding personal opinions with others in the target language (intercultural)
Cultural NOtes:
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