Preparation For Final, Novice Mid-High, English Foundations

Created Feb. 7, 2024 by Amber Hoye, Madison Gallagher

Preparation For Final Activity

Theme:Preparation for Final

Description: In this activity, students will have an opportunity to practice Spanish in preparation for their final. They will be using scenario cards to ask and answer certain questions that pertain to what they have learned over the course of the semester

Relevant Can-Do statements:

  • I can effectively use the vocabulary and grammar functions I have learned throughout the semester.
  • I can be interviewed in Spanish and answer questions in detail.
  • I can speak Spanish for an extended period of time.

Materials:

Question cards (each set from a particular scenario) (based on scenarios from: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13snDo4x67V99I0IDHFilS9Xrw7q8aUkExfWTIUzm3Vw/edit)

Scenario Cards

Download: Scenario_Cards.pdf


Warm-up

Ask quick, basic questions to get the students into Spanish and feeling comfortable:

  • How are you?
  • Do you have any plans for the weekend?
  • Do you have plans for a vacation?
  • Are you ready for your final exams?

Main Activity

Important Rules:

  • The students must speak Spanish at all times.
  • No questions during the interviews. Students should practice using what they know!
  • The goal is for the student being interviewed to continuously speak Spanish for 3 minutes, so, even if they finish answering the questions really quickly, they must continue talking until the 3 minutes are up.
  1. Share these rules with students:

"For this activity there will be a set of scenario cards. There are a total of three scenarios, with two cards per scenario (one green and one blue). Students should partner up and each pair gets a scenario. Within each pair, each person should receive one of the two scenario cards (a green and a blue). Each card will have 3 questions. The students will sit across from each other. The student with the blue card will begin by asking their partner their questions, one by one in an interview format (3 minutes). After time is up, the partner with the green card will ask their questions and their partner will answer (3 minutes). The goal is for the student being interviewed to continuously speak Spanish for 3 minutes, so, even if they finish answering the questions really quickly, they must continue talking until the 3 minutes are up."

"After both partners take a turn to be interviewed (6 minutes in total), the student sitting at the right side of the table will move forwards, and the student sitting at the left side of the table will move backwards. That way, every student will find a new topic and partner after every 6 minutes. "

Wrap-up

  1. Which topics were easy? Which topics were hard?
  2. What questions do you have? Is there anything you want to go over together?


End of lab: Can-Do statement check-in... “Where are we?”

  • Read can-do statements and have students evaluate their confidence with cards
  • Encourage students to be honest in their self evaluation
  • Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!




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