This activity allows students to take a quick peek at what is culturally relevant in Mexico City in regards to hobbies and how young adults spend their free time. Students will be able to make connections in writing about activities that they like doing in their free time.
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Students will navigate a Spanish supermarket website looking for different items in various departments. Students will also talk about foods, beverages, and restaurants. Students will express their likes and dislikes in regards to foods, beverages, and restaurants.
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This project entails lessons an activities that allow students to study the history of Spanish and the countries in which it's spoken. The final product is a cultural celebration event in which students showcase their country's portfolios.
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Students will discuss their future career preferences. They will practice how to be persuasive with their speech to achieve something or to be convincing. Students will decide appropriate ways to talk about themselves and their talents in a formal setting.
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In this activity, the students will discuss their hobbies and what they like to do in their free time. They will practice asking and answering questions related to popular activities.Students will split into groups and move around interacting with the other group.
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I wanted students to have authentic examples of these greetings before they practice them so I added some videos of Germans greeting each other in various forms. I also wanted to add German music playing in the background just to give students a feeling of being in Germany.
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In this activity, students will read an article about factors to consider when renting a vacation property. Then, they will compare lists with a partner or in a small group to come to a consensus on the five most important factors. Students will work together to find a vacation rental in a francophone area that incorporates their considerations and will present their choice to the class. As a possible extension on this activity, students can choose an accommodation and write a mock review of the accommodation.
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In this activity, students will examine advertisements in French. They will also collaborate to develop an advertising campaign to sell prom tickets at their school. This activity will target all three modes of communication.
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In this activity, students will read an article and create a visual representation of the differences between inventions and innovations. Then, they will choose between two emails to write: one to propose a solution to a global problem and the other to ask questions of a student inventor.
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Students planning to live or interact with Arabs from the Middle East and North Africa have a tendency to speak without using typical words to express their meaning. There are hand gestures, non-word sounds, and other country specific actions that one might do depending on a situation. Students will learn 5 hand gestures and compare these to those of their home country as well as learn the accompanying “real words” that accompany these gestures, signs, and actions.
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In this activity, students will identify and interview a partner regarding their "bucket list" for fall. (While designed for fall, this activity could easily adapted for any season.) Once complete, they will also be present their list to the group and discuss some aspects of their daily routine during the fall.
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Students will be comparing different dishes of food and defending their opinion on which is more healthy. After that, the lab assistant will facilitate an open discussion (via prompted questions) about the Deaf community interacting in fast food businesses compared to hearing people's experiences.
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During the warm-up students will review how to sign shapes and the cardinal numbers from the slideshow. For the main activity, students will pair up and each grab a picture card without showing it to their partner. One student will describe the picture card being specific to location, color, etc, while the other draws what their partner just described to them. The partners will then switch roles.
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This lab will introduce ASL students to having conversations with others. Students will learn how to properly ask and answer questions, as well as how to feel more comfortable in a conversational atmosphere. Students will also learn how to describe each other's responses.
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Students will review what theatrical interpreters consider when signing live performances. After creating a list together, students will be grouped into two or three, analyze their movie clip and work together to interpret it. Students will learn more about interpreting live performances, and how to best interpret performances.
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For this activity, students will practice their circumlocution skills concerning their recent vocabulary. They will be given a word to explain without using the exact word, or similar words.
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This lab will allow students to fingerspell with each other and work on their receptive skills. There is also a fun spy game for the students so they can also work on their conversational skills.
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This activity will be a review for ASL students. There are categories like physical descriptions, numbers and shapes, and Deaf culture. There is also a short fingerspelling quiz for the students to practice their receptive skills.
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This lab will introduce students to the days of the week and will allow them to sign their schedule to someone else. Students will also get to plan an event and ask if their peers can attend.
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Students are exposed to a wide variety of things to do with this activity, each individual activity focuses on either expressive or receptive signs. All four activities work on improving fingerspelling skills, as well as reading fingerspelling. Students also get a chance to experience tactile signing in one of the activities!
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