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Course: Spanish I Unit: 5 City Life- The Home, The Family and Urban Activities
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Essential Questions
1. How can I describe my immediate environment in Spanish?
2. How can you describe public buildings and places used for leisure-
time, activities, recreation or entertainment in the city?
3. How do you use verbs in Spanish correctly for different situations Curriculum Infusion Levels of Instruction
and time?
4. How has the culture of Spanish-speaking people contributed to the
cultural celebrations and atmosphere of the U.S.A.?
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1. Spell, pronounce and use Students will play a vocabulary bingo
vocabulary associated with game dealing with city life. X
city life and urban activities.
Students will draw a map of the city of
New Brunswick and label, in Spanish,
X
all the public buildings and their
favorite stores.
2. Ask and give directions in In pairs, students will look at a map of
Spanish. a Spanish city and ask each other X X X
where the different places are located.
Students will write sentences
describing how they get from their X X X
houses to three of their favorite places.
3. Write a simple paragraph in Begin with a prewriting activity. Have
Spanish describing the city students work together to list all the
of New Brunswick. Spanish words they could use in
3.2 X X X
describing New Brunswick. They will
then write simple paragraphs
describing the city.
New Brunswick Public Schools 1 of 3 2007/2008
Course: Spanish I Unit: 5 City Life- The Home, The Family and Urban Activities
________________________________________________________________________________________
Essential Questions
1. How can I describe my immediate environment in Spanish?
2. How can you describe public buildings and places used for leisure-
time, activities, recreation or entertainment in the city?
3. How do you use verbs in Spanish correctly for different situations Curriculum Infusion Levels of Instruction
and time?
4. How has the culture of Spanish-speaking people contributed to the
cultural celebrations and atmosphere of the U.S.A.?
Comprehensio
Interdisciplina
Technology
Application
Knowledge
Evaluation
Synthesis
Extended
ry Study
Modified
Analysis
Infusion
Infusion
Career
n
Objectives Suggested Activities/Strategies
Students will exchange their
paragraphs with a partner who will
peer edit the paper, correcting errors 3.2 X X X
in Spanish vocabulary and grammar in
each sentence.
4. Use the verbs “ir” (to go) Using the near future (ir+ infinitive) (to
and “venir” to come in all go + infinitive) write sentences about
forms in the present tense. what each student is doing tomorrow.
Use pictures of students and students
in the classroom.
The students will imagine there will be
a party at 8:00 p.m. In pairs, write
X X X
sentences that say when each person
is coming to the party.
5. Use the simple past tense of Students will view various action
selected irregular verbs. pictures. Say what the person did,
made, had or where he/she went using
the past tense of selected irregular
verbs. Illustrate several irregular
X X X
verbs in the notebook and write a
New Brunswick Public Schools 2 of 3 2007/2008
Course: Spanish I Unit: 5 City Life- The Home, The Family and Urban Activities
________________________________________________________________________________________
Essential Questions
1. How can I describe my immediate environment in Spanish?
2. How can you describe public buildings and places used for leisure-
time, activities, recreation or entertainment in the city?
3. How do you use verbs in Spanish correctly for different situations Curriculum Infusion Levels of Instruction
and time?
4. How has the culture of Spanish-speaking people contributed to the
cultural celebrations and atmosphere of the U.S.A.?
Comprehensio
Interdisciplina
Technology
Application
Knowledge
Evaluation
Synthesis
Extended
ry Study
Modified
Analysis
Infusion
Infusion
Career
n
Objectives Suggested Activities/Strategies
caption under each picture.
Write a simple paragraph describing
what you did in the city using selected X X X
irregular verbs.
6. Describe how the cultural The students will read about the feast
events relating to this time of “Los reyes Magos” (The Three
of year are observed in Kings) which takes place on January 6. X X
Spanish-speaking countries. This is the official end of the holiday
season in Spanish-speaking countries.
Taste a “Bizcocho de Reyes” cake. If
a student receives the piece of cake
with the “figurita” (porcelain figurine)
in it, he/she becomes the king and X X X
chooses his queen for the year and
vice versa. The king and queen wear
crowns for the rest of the day.
New Brunswick Public Schools 3 of 3 2007/2008
