Spanish Level 1, Activity 14: Un Buen Repaso / A Good Review (Face-to-Face)

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"Un Buen Repaso", Spanish, Novice Mid

Proficiency Level:

Novice Mid

Description:

In this activity, students will review by talking about things revolving around the university, family, and vacations, using memorized vocabulary. Students will be interviewed by each other based on scenarios provided. Students will ask and answer questions entirely in Spanish. 

Keywords:

Vacation, hotel, opinion, class, university, family, vacation, review.

NCSSFL-ACTFL World-Readiness Standards:

  • Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
  • Standard 1.2 Students understand and interpret spoken and written Spanish on a variety of topics.
  • Standard 1.3 Students present information, concepts, and ideas in Spanish to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.

Idaho State World Language Standards:

  • COMM 1.1 - Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions
  • COMM 2.1 - Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
  • COMM 3.1 - Present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media in the target language.

NCSSFL-ACTFL 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
  • I can answer simple questions about my plans (Intercultural)

Materials Needed:

Scenario Cards

Google Slideshow 

Would you like to make changes to the materials? Access the template(s) below:

- Scenario Cards (Canva Template, free account required) 

Warm-up

  1. Begin by opening the Google Slideshow and introduce the Can-Do Statements.

  2. Ask quick, basic questions to get the students into Spanish and feeling comfortable:
    • ¿Cómo están?
    • ¿Tienen planes para el fin de semana?
    • ¿Tienen planes para las vacaciones?
    • ¿Están listos para los exámenes finales?

Main Activity

1. Share these rules with students: 

Tienen que hablar en español por todo el lab.
No pueden hacer preguntas durante la actividad. ¡Intenten usar el español que saben! Vamos a tener unos minutos tras el final para preguntas.
Si terminan las preguntas temprano, tienen que hablar más. Tienen que hablar por tres minutos total. 

2. For this activity there will be a set of scenario cards with three questions on each card. 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. With each pair, each person should receive one of the two scenario cards (one green and one blue). 

Para esta actividad, vamos a tener tarjetas con tres preguntas en cada una. Van a trabajar en pareja y una persona va a tener una tarjeta azul y la otra va a tener una tarjeta verde. 

3. 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. 

La persona con la tarjeta azul va comenzar la conversación. Va a hacerle las tres preguntas a su pareja y su pareja debe usar 3 minutos completos para responder las preguntas en detalle. Después la persona con la tarjeta verde va a hacer lo mismo con la otra persona. La meta es que los estudiantes hablen continuamente en Español por 3 minutes a la vez.

4. 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. 

Después de que las parejas tomen sus turnos (6 minutos en total), van a cambiar. Una pareja puede cambiar a la derecha y la otra puede cambiar hacía la izquierda.

Wrap-up

Ask students the following questions to finish the lab: 

  1. ¿Qué temas son los más fáciles? ¿Qué temas son los más difíciles?
  2. ¿Qué preguntas tienen? ¿Hay una cosa que quieren repasar juntos?

End of lab:

• Read Can-Do statements once more and have students evaluate their confidence. 
(Use thumbs up/thumbs down or download our student cards.) 
• Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation.
• Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!

Relevant NCSSFL-ACTFL 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
  • I can answer simple questions about my plans (Intercultural)

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