Spanish Level 4- Face-to-Face Activities
🎬 Spanish Level 4, Activity 10: Una telenovela nueva / A new telenovela (Face-To-Face)
Description: Students will discuss and give reasons for their preferences and interests. They will practice discussing characters, plots, and elements of programs they already enjoy. Students will also decide on appropriate ways to share their ideas in creating a new television program with a small group.
Semantic Topics: Interests, hobbies, preferences, TV shows, movies, favorites, television program, plot, intereses, pasatiempos, preferencias, series de televisión, películas, favoritos, programa de televisión, trama
Grammatical Structures: Preterite, imperfect, narration in the past, preterito, imperfecto, narración en el pasado
Products: Spanish-language television shows, telenovelas
Practices: Families/friends watching telenovelas together
Perspectives: What is the cultural significance of telenovelas in Hispanic cultures?
- 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.
- Standard 2.2 – Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of (target culture).
- Standard 4.2 – Students demonstrate an understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons between (the target culture) 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
- 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.
- CLTR 2.1- Analyze the significance of a product (art, music, literature, etc…) in a target culture.
- CLTR 2.2- Describe the connections of products from the target culture with the practices and perspectives of the culture.
- CONN 1.2- Relate information studied in other subjects to the target language and culture.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can spontaneously create a storyline
- I can compare TV shows from different cultures
- I can talk about my television viewing preferences
Materials Needed:
- Google Slide Presentation (hyperlinked)
- Plot Cards
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Warm-Up
- Begin by opening the Google Slideshow and introducing the Can-Do’s.
Hola, ¿cómo están? Estoy ____. Vamos a empezar el lab de hoy con los can-do statements. - Then show students clips of different types of telenovelas. After each clip, ask students to react to what they saw in the clip.
¿Qué piensan del video?
Después de ver el clip de la telenovela, ¿la verían? - Show the students the provided examples of telenovelas from different countries around the world and chat about telenovelas/soap operas that are popular around the world. Ask students about their reactions.
Como pueden ver en la diapositiva, las telenovelas son populares alrededor del mundo.
Si tuvieran la oportunidad de ver una telenovela de cualquier país, ¿cuál elegirían?
Main Activity
- Put the students into groups of 3-4. Give each group four of the trope cards and have them put them face down on the table. Follow by explaining the rules.
Ustedes son escritores de una cadena de televisión muy popular. La cadena necesita una nueva telenovela y, gracias a sus habilidades en español y la escritura, les pide crearla. Los superiores la necesitan pronto, entonces solo tienen 15 minutos para crear la historia.
En grupos de 3 a 4, ustedes van a crear la trama (plot) de una nueva telenovela. Van a recibir cuatro tarjetas con fotos y necesitan ponerlas de cara al suelo (facedown) - Explain to your students: Ustedes van a tomar turnos agarrando una tarjeta. Tienen que incorporar el tropo que tienes en la trama de la telenovela. El primer estudiante va a empezar el cuento y el segundo va a seguir con el cuento. Es importante que presten atención por qué el cuento debe tener sentido. La persona que tiene la última tarjeta necesita intentar resolver el cuento.
- If there is more time, have each group make their own commercial for the show. Ask students to come up with ideas and share how an ad would look for the show.
Wrap-Up
- Ask the following wrap up questions:
– Si tuvieras la oportunidad de vender tu programa a un canal de televisión, ¿Lo harías? (If you had the opportunity to sell your program to a TV channel, would you, do it?)
– ¿Piensas que ABC, FOX, o CBS compraría los derechos del programa? (Do you think ABC, FOX, or CBS would buy the rights to the show?)
– ¿Qué es mejor: leer un libro o ver la tele? ¿Por qué? (Which is best, read a book or watch TV? Why?)
– Si tuvieras la oportunidad de ver tu telenovela, ¿Lo verías? (If you had the opportunity to watch your show, would you watch it?)
End of Lab
- 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 labs!
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can talk about my interests and hobbies
- I can give reasons for my preferences
- I can talk about my favorite TV shows
CULTURAL NOTES:
- ¿Qué son las telenovelas? – Un video que explica las telenovelas
- “Las mejores telenovelas a las que vas a engancharte en Netflix”
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