En El Banco: El Banco, Cuenta Corriente vs. Cuenta de Ahorros, y Préstamos
Overview
Students in my Spanish 2 class learn banking terms. However, for many students, it helps to strengthen working knowledge of banking before transferring the terms to our target language. This project aims to strengthen both background knowledge and Spanish vocabulary, so that students will engage more fully and learn the content with depth.
For the project, divide students into 3 groups: Bank, Checking vs. Savings, and Loans. If class sizes are large, you can have multiple groups research the same topic. Each group will become the experts on their specific topic and will share a Spanish presentation to the other groups. Each group only watches the English version of one video on one topic, but is expected to have a basic understanding of all three topics in Spanish by the end of the project. To check this understanding, all students will need to complete a quiz in Spanish based on all three presentations.
En El Banco
Sample Vocabulary Quiz link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXt1yWpqfd3Hly7DUHIMnhyjE-tQjtAi8luJzRa5M8_g0oww/viewform?usp=sf_link
Sample Presentation Quiz link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeo0DFxFHQRs--unjIDvJpu2cAPl26IzZ4WbxmbD9lovUza3Q/viewform?usp=sf_link
Students will learn Spanish banking vocabulary through the basics of banking, including
1. What is a bank and what does it do?
2. What is the difference between a checking account and savings account?
3. What is a loan and when should it be used? What are the advantages and disadvantages of a loan?
Overview: Students in my Spanish 2 class learn banking terms. However, for many students, it helps to strengthen working knowledge of banking before transferring the terms to our target language. This project aims to strengthen both background knowledge and Spanish vocabulary, so that students will engage more fully and learn the content with depth.
For the project, divide students into 3 groups: Bank, Checking vs. Savings, and Loans. If class sizes are large, you can have multiple groups research the same topic. Each group will become the experts on their specific topic and will share a Spanish presentation to the other groups. Each group only watches the English version of one video on one topic, but is expected to have a basic understanding of all three topics in Spanish by the end of the project. To check this understanding, all students will need to complete a quiz in Spanish based on all three presentations.
Procedure:
1. Assign each group a video to watch. During the video, they are to take notes for content understanding, and write down terms that they will need to know in Spanish.
What is a bank?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqD3hnjZBTM
What is the difference between a checking and savings account?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K8pDRX3oaM
What is a loan? https://bettermoneyhabits.bankofamerica.com/en/personal-banking/help-your-child-understand-how-loans-work
2. As a whole class, have students share the terms they will need to successfully complete their presentations. Create a list of vocabulary words from the group that will be the list of terms to study for banking. A sample list can be found at https://quizlet.com/_a196dg?x=1qqt&i=s24pe. This list can be modified based on additions from students.
3. Give students some time each day to work on their presentations. Presentations must be at least 2 minutes in length and completely in Spanish. Presentations should have a visual component to help ensure that students understand the material shared. Each student must contribute to the spoken portion of the presentation. Students should keep translated words to 20% or less and give credit to any words used from a translation tool (i.e. Google translate). In order to credit the translated words, students keep a translation reference sheet indicating the word in English, the word in Spanish, and the date accessed.
3. On day 2, students should be prepared to take a quiz over the terms that they created in day 1. The quiz will be in a google forms format. Then provide more work time on the presentation.
4. On day 4, presentations are due. Groups present and have question and answer sessions for clarifying purposes. Students who are not presenting take notes, which may be utilized during the quiz. After all presentations, students take a quiz over the content shared. Both quiz links can be found under instructor notes.
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