Content Area: Spanish as a foreign language
Title: Greetings in Spanish
Grade Level: Beginning Spanish high school students
Title: Greetings in Spanish
Grade Level: Beginning Spanish high school students
Big Idea: Spanish greetings reflect the diversity of Spanish speakers and differ from region to region
Essential Question: How to Spanish speakers greet one another?
Lesson Objectives: Learn basic greetings in Spanish, reinforce understanding of the diversity reflected in the Spanish-speaking world.
Assessment: Students' learning will be assessed through multiple activities in which the students will be asked to utilize the structures in authentic contexts
Essential Question: How to Spanish speakers greet one another?
Lesson Objectives: Learn basic greetings in Spanish, reinforce understanding of the diversity reflected in the Spanish-speaking world.
Assessment: Students' learning will be assessed through multiple activities in which the students will be asked to utilize the structures in authentic contexts
Lesson Opening:
- The teacher will begin by greeting the class using her normal greeting and asking for some students to respond (this is possible even in absolute beginner classrooms since most students have been exposed to the absolute basics of Spanish greetings (i.e. "Hola" or frequently "¿Cómo estás?"). Then she will ask students what other greetings they have heard in Spanish.
- If the class is not 100% immersive, the teacher can include a cultural comparison piece where the students are asked reflect on greetings in English: Do we have formal and informal greetings in English? Do we always greet each other in the same exact way? How do we say goodbye? Does the way we say goodbye depend on when we are going to see that person again? Do you think Spanish has the same number of ways to greet someone as English?
3. As a hook, the teacher will show the short video to the right where people from all over the Spanish-speaking world give examples of their greetings and goodbyes. The first time, students will just watch the video.
4. The teacher will play the video again. This time, as they watch students should listen for greetings and goodbyes they know and try to write down one new greeting and one new goodbye. The differences between accents and the greetings will be discussed after the video. The teacher may ask some more thought-provoking questions: Why are there so many ways to greet someone in Spanish? Why do you think the greetings differ so much from one another? |
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Lesson Body - Explanation
Then the teacher will break the students in to pairs or small groups. In their small groups students will watch the next video (to the right), which explains how to form basic greetings and goodbyes in Spanish. While watching, the students will take notes. It will be necessary for the students to pause the video frequently in order to write down the pertinent information. This gives the students the power to control the speed of the "lecture" while assuring that they get the necessary information. Note taking from lecture is a skill that high school students are developing, so giving them an assignment where they have to pick out the important facts is an important learning opportunity. |
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Lesson Body - Check for Understanding
Once the students have watched the "lecture" video and have taken notes on how to greet in Spanish, they will work individually with headphones to reinforce the information and check for understanding. They will navigate to the website Digital Dialects to the activity shown and linked below. This activity tests for oral comprehension of greetings by asking students to match the audio in Spanish to the corresponding written word in English.
Lesson Body - Check for Understanding
Once the students have watched the "lecture" video and have taken notes on how to greet in Spanish, they will work individually with headphones to reinforce the information and check for understanding. They will navigate to the website Digital Dialects to the activity shown and linked below. This activity tests for oral comprehension of greetings by asking students to match the audio in Spanish to the corresponding written word in English.
Lesson Body - Extended Practice After the students have completed the introductory audio activity, they will complete a more comprehensive activity that reviews and reinforces all of the concepts from the lesson and quizzes students on the material. For homework, students will navigate to the website LearningALanguage where they will complete a series of activities under the "Greetings" Module, Unit 2: "Listen and Repeat", "Memory Machine", "Soccer Game." Then students will complete the "Quiz" under Unit 3: Review/Quiz. (Screenshots shown). |
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Lesson Closing
To complete this lesson, students will complete three separate projects that integrate and demonstrate the students' learning. First, students will participate in the ePals Greetings activity as set up by the teacher (see photo). This activity facilitates very basic conversations with schools from around the world. Students will have structured interaction with students from 5 different Spanish-speaking countries so that they can compare the greetings they receive from their ePen Pals. Second, the students will participate in a class chat with a group of students from a bilingual school in Honduras via a Skype in the Classroom chat (see photo). Here students will be prompted to use their greetings to greet and say goodbye to actual Spanish-speaking students. Third, the students will participate in an in-class role-play activity where they will be prompted to use the greetings and goodbyes learned in the lesson in real-life scenarios. |
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