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Spanish I Std. 1.2 Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.

Lesson Plans: Espanol from Ronnie Konner Week 10 This site contains four lessons with homework assignments on the alphabet, Spanish countries, greetings, and career opportunities using Spanish. Espanol from Ronnie Konner Week 11 This site contains three lessons regarding days of the week, weather, and assembling a calendar with Hispanic holidays. Espanol from Ronnie Konner Week 9 This site contains five lessons with homework on colors, classroom vocabulary and questions for Day of the Dead research. 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. Planning a Vacation to Spain In this lesson students will learn to create a travel brochure for a destination in Spain. Working in groups, students will be able to create a travel brochure for their hometown. 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. Using Songs in the Foreign Language Classroom This lesson provides ideas for using songs in the foreign language classroom. In this activity, "La Bamba" is used to introduce/review targeted Spanish vocabulary. Mi Casa, Mi Pueblo y los Maya This lesson introduces or reinforces general vocabulary that students need in order to talk or write about where they live. It also compares and contrasts their houses and towns with those of the late classic Maya period in Central America. Basic research skills for finding useful facts and applying their findings is also promoted. Body Parts Using Total Physical Response strategies, students learn body parts in the target language (Spanish). Borders: Metaphors & Realities Students will explore and create definitions of the word "border." Students will engage in a multi-perspective way of looking at the border. 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 Body Parts Students will be taught a variety of vocabulary, including parts of the body and colors, in Spanish. 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. 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. Spanish Body Parts In this lesson students will be taught a variety of vocabulary, including parts of the body and colors, in Spanish. Spanish Days of the Week/Counting This lesson plan will allow students to learn the names for the days of the week and learn to count to 31. Vocabulary Review in Spanish This lesson is a vocabulary review. The class is divided into two teams. Each person has a corresponding partner with which he competes. One person from each team goes to the board, and the one who answers correctly first and can write the answer on the board scores for his/her team. Baseball Vocabulary This lesson can be used as a review of vocabulary and verb conjugations. All levels from beginning levels through advanced can benefit from this lesson. 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. I Hear Latin America Singing In this lesson, students learn about the historical and current social, political, and cultural trends of Latin American countries. After researching a specific country, groups write songs that reflect the music styles as well as the history of the region. 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. 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: Spanish Grammar Tutorial This site features an online grammar guide for those interested in learning Spanish. From this page, visitors can link to individual pages providing instruction in parts of speech, vocabulary, and common phrases and expressions. 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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