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Spanish I Std. 1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.

Lesson Plans: Español This site contains a lot of lessons for beginning Spanish. Introduction to Spanish In this lesson students will introduce another after interviewing them. Students will use basic words and phrases previously learned. 101 Dalmations and Counting In this lesson students recognize and use numbers from 1-101 in Spanish or French when heard randomly and in context other than in the classroom. Students recognize cognates and basic vocabulary related to counting and topics in the classroom. Border Sports: Bullfighting Students will understand the cultural significance and meaning of the bullfight. In addition, students will research internet sources on the ethical aspects of bullfighting, and exercise their rhetorical and argumentative skills in an in-class debate on the subject A Pre-Columbian Mosaic of Latin America: Linguistic Diversity within the Maya Cultural Region Students will look at the diversity of languages and ethnic groups as an identifier of geographic location and isolation, history, and an important ethnic cultural expression. Students will also recognize the fact that over 28 different dialects are spoken by 3 million people who identify themselves a Maya. These dialects define their ethnic groups, as do their clothing, history, and other cultural characteristics. Mexico - Language and Literature The students will develop their language and literature skills and knowledge by engaging themselves within a realm of the Mexican culture. Tasty Tidbits From Spain Students will gain and use vocabulary which deals with some Spanish foods. They will also compare typical American meals with typical Spanish meals. Mexican Food This lesson introduces Mexican food and the history behind it. The main objective of this lesson is to introduce new food vocabulary to the students. In addition, the students will also participate in classroom activities, make a menu of their own, take quizzes, and use the internet to practice the vocabulary. The students will apply what they learn in a Mexican restaurant, by ordering their meal in Spanish Spanish Bingo This is a great lesson for review. It is the same as playing Bingo, but you may call it whatever you wish and have the student call that name out when s/he wins. Spanish This lesson teaches the numbers 0-100 the fun and easy way. Students create their own bingo chart, the teacher calls out numbers randomly; six matches in a row wins. Spanish Days of the Week/Counting Students will learn the names for the days of the week and learn to count to 31. Que Hora Es? What Time Is It? Students will learn how to ask the time and tell the time correctly in Spanish. They will make paper plate clocks and practice asking and responding with a partner in Spanish. ¡Tarjetas Postales! This lesson is intended for a beginning-intermediate Spanish class. Students design postcards to reflect the life and/or work of a Spanish-speaking artist. Students also write personal messages in Spanish for practice in vocabulary terms that have to do with traveling, greetings & farewells, food, climate, and other such typical themes found on postcards. Cup Games: Question Words This lesson, the traditional "cup game" is adapted to help students memorize the question words (who, what, when, where, why, how) in Spanish. Students will be able to ask and answer questions using the Spanish interrogative words. The Mayans This is an interdisciplinary unit which will explore why the Mayan are not as prominent today as they were in the past. Students will also develop a better understanding of Mayan culture and their civilization. Building Communities/Construyendo Comunidades The objective of the lesson is to allow students to take responsibility for their own learning of a foreign language through exploring the theme of what community means. All groups develop their own core vocabulary of words associated with their concept of community. For the Grade and Middle School students the lessons should be kept at a concrete-operation cognitive level. For High School students their theme remains the same, but their development is more on the abstract cognitive level. Questions and Answers in a Foreign Language The object of this lesson is for students to recognize all the interrogative words, how to phrase questions and how to answer questions in a foreign language. Foreign Language Months/Vocabulary Card Game This lesson is designed to reinforce names of months in the target foreign language, teach auxiliary vocabulary, and give students a chance to practice listening. Web Spanish Lessons This site contains three introductory lessons in Spanish. Each lesson is loosely organized around a central theme. New words, sample sentences, pronunciation guides, grammar explanations, and self-tests are included in most of the lessons. In addition, each lesson contains audio of that lesson's new words being spoken to help with pronunciation. Concrete Biopoems In this lesson students create poems about themselves. This reinforces use of adjectives and other vocabulary. To really get the students involved have them put their poems inside a drawing of a shape that is important to them. For example: a football, a car, a parent's face, etc. Las estaciones/The seasons Topic: Introducing Seasons/the types of weather : In this lesson students will be able to classify the types of weather in each season following a lesson on the weather. Procedure: Review the types of weather. Use picture cards and ask with each " Hace buen tiempo o hace mal tiempo?" La Familia After initial vocabulary presentation, you can allow the students to practice recognition with a hopscotch board made with the pictures of the family members as the separate boxes. The students use the family vocabulary as well as reinforce numbers. Spanish Lesson Plan 2 This is a lesson plan for beginning Spanish. Students will learn how to greet, how to ask names, how to ask and respond to how you are doing, and how to say good-bye. Me gusta Following a lecture on how to describe likes and dislikes in Spanish using the formation me gusta(n), elementary students will be able to tell the class things they like or do not like in Spanish with 100% accuracy.

Resources: Quia Spanish Activities Students can use the Quia to practice numbers, colors, etc. The Quia makes repetition and practice fun. Hispanic Magazine This magazine has a list of links to articles for and about Hispanics. Site includes Hispanic culture, business, sports and more. Museo del Prado This website is for one of Spain's most famous museums. It offers online tours of its collection and other museum information. CNN En Español CNN world news in Spanish. A great resource for Sports, weather, international concerns, health, fashion and everything else you are used to from CNN. Online Resources-Spanish This site is dedicated to materials for language learning. It includes courses, grammar, links to practice materials in all four modalities, and much more. Webspañol This site has pronunciation, verbs, lessons, links and much more. This site boasts of their commitment to Spanish Language study with Internet resources. Spanish Grammar Exercises This site is a wonderful practice resource for all those fine tune grammar points that students struggle with so often. Try it out! Noticias y Revistas In case none of the others interest you, here is a nice listing of many of the Hispanic Newspapers available on the web. TeachSpanish.com This Country Resource Center will allow you to explore any Latin American country you choose in either English or Spanish. Also, when you get to a country, simply click on the country flag to get some general demographic information in English about that country. Spanish Storytelling Here is a collection of ideas for teaching command-verbs in Spanish. Focus. - Students listen to teacher utter commands in Spanish and as teacher acts out these commands, students respond by moving just like the teacher. Bienvenidos a mi página WEB This is a Super Website with links to over 630 sites and growing daily.
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