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Each day in the classroom, I try to include activities that focus on the four skills of communicative learning: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. I also try intersperse lecture with conversation, reading with games, and writing with group work in order to keep my students' interest. I think that a syllabus should reflect a balance of these skills as well, including days that are at the same time dedicated to grammar, culture, and literature.
View the syllabus that I created at Transylvania University for Spanish II: The Spanish World as a PDF or in MS Word.
Below is a lesson plan with the objectives of teaching about -ar verbs and the verb gustar. It was taught in an introductory language course (Spanish 101 at the University of Kentucky), using the book Vistas.
Spanish 101 Lesson 2.2
Friday, Sep. 13, 2002
Objectives: 1) Students practice speaking about a classmate, introducing them to the class and describing their class schedule. In their presentations they practice using days of the week and the verb tomar. 2) Students view a very short PowerPoint presentation on forming -ar verbs. Theycreate positive and negative sentences with –ar verbs and describe pictures using –ar verbs in context. They read sentences containing –ar verbs and guess their meaning. In doing this, they discover how to draw conclusions from the context of the sentence, even if they don’t know what every word means. 3) Students formulate sentences with the verb gustar. They describe their likes and dislikes using gustar, and answer questions about themselves both positively and negatively. |
Class Plan, text p.44-48 |
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- Roll.
- Brief review: questions such as “Qué día es hoy?”.
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1:00 – 1:02 |
- Follow up on oral interviews: each student presents his/her partner to the class, describing their schedule.
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1:02 – 1:15 |
- (Listening and Speaking Activity)
- Short PowerPoint presentation of –ar verbs.
- ask for each form of an –ar verb
- students try to guess the meaning of some sentences using –ar verbs (with a little bit of new vocabulary)
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1:15 – 1:20 |
- Look at p. 44 – 46 together
- talk about the infinitive, when it is used
- discuss making a verb/action negative using “no”
- ask for examples on how pronouns can be positioned in a sentence
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1:20 – 1:25 |
- Group activity: Inténtalo (p.46) as a class.
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1:25 – 1:30 |
- Discussion about the use of “me gusta…”
- Practice using “me gusta”.
- individual questions to students (i.e. “¿Te gusta bailar?”). Students answer positively or negatively
- Práctica 1 Me gusta… (p.47)
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1:30 – 1:35 |
- Individual activity: Práctica 3 Oraciones (p.47)
- students do the activity on their own, writing down the answers.
- student volunteers write their answers, and as a class decide if they are correct/incorrect
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1:35 – 1:40 |
- Class activity: Comunicación 4 (p.48)
- students describe the pictures and answer questions about them using –ar verbs
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1:40 – 1:45 |
- Closing activity: ¿Qué te gusta hacer?
- show “gustar” transparency
- each student describes what they like to do using the yo form
- students use gustar to say what he/she/they/we like to do
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1:45 – 1:50 |
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Materials: T4.verbos –ar, Gustar transparency, Practicing with -ar verbs handout
(back to my classroom) |