By Lydia Wanner and Israel Osorio
This is the first lesson in a unit on greetings and common conversational phrases for a junior high Spanish I class. Students will read the following text, which was made on Book Creator, as an introduction to the target phrases for this lesson. After reading as a class, students will be divided into groups and assigned a number of phrases to translate using the pictures from the book as clues. On a Google Slides presentation (see the link below), students will create a picture dictionary for their phrases. Students will put their translations of the Spanish as well as images for each translation on their slides. Students will present their slides to the class and explain why they chose those translations. At the end of class, the actual translations will be revealed using the same text (see the second Book Creator link).
The purpose of using Book Creator for the anchor text was the audio feature. This book has recordings of the correct pronunciations for each phrase. This way, students can hear what the Spanish sounds like. In addition to Book Creator, we decided to use Google Slides to foster collaboration. With each lesson in this unit, more slides can be added to grow the class picture dictionary! Throughout the unit, students will be working together to make a great classroom resource.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HXAiY4apqh2K77TlfuE0A1AZj2AqSJLDG9Ea_wDTA28/edit?usp=sharing
Feature Image by jairojehuel from Pixabay
Lydia and Israel,
That was an excellent lesson. Great energy, fine delivery with engaging “teacher voices.” Lots of fun to participate as a student.
The two Book Creator projects (in Spanish and in English) were well designed. Fun books to look at with clear delivery and organization. Great use of audio to guide Spanish pronunciations.
The shared Google doc was a great way for us to share and showcase our work.
I can see this lesson going great with target audience.