Students will use their imaginations to create inventions and describe their usage to their classmates in the target language. Students will describe preferences and use reasoning to support their argument as to why their invention should be developed.
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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 lab students will share their interpretations on artwork. They will discuss how they can talk about art and express their opinion with a partner or in a group. Students will answer questions across different time frames (past, present, future).
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In this activity, students will have the opportunity to create a campaign commercial to run as the new president of Boise State. They will practice using vocabulary related to governments and actions that political figures take. Students will be able to discuss preferences relating to politics and government.
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Students will practice discussing their preferences, how to defend and support their ideas. Students learn topics through a game of bingo and express how relevant certain ideas are over others.
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Students will be able to recount events that have happened to them using vocabulary about health and body parts.
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In this lab, students will evaluate how social media affects their wellbeing and describe how they feel about certain current events.
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Students will talk about common health problems and healthy routines. Students will also give each other advice about how to solve health issues.
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Students will talk about future careers and how to interview. They will discuss several interview questions and styles through different scenarios with a partner. Students will also decide how to appropriately answer questions or how to come to a resolution to these situations on their own or with a partner.
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In this activity, students will begin by discussing their preferred type of work environment and typical jobs held by college students. They will then discuss how they might handle a handful of difficult scenarios at work. Students will take turns being the employee and the advice giver.
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Students will chat about popular movies and TV shows. They will discuss their opinions and preferences regarding movies and TV shows. Students will also decide appropriate ways to provide recommendations about what to watch.
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In this activity, students will figure out the lie from three statements about Boise State and Idaho. Also, they will say two statements that are true and one that is a lie about them with a partner or in a group. The rest of the group will guess the lie in the statements.
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Students will engage in conversation about their preferences when given two choices. Students will take turns asking their partners questions.
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Students are going to play a game as their warm-up by creating a storyline using vocabulary words learned in class. For the main activity, the students will create questions to be used in the next conversation lab. They will have an example question to guide them in the process of creating their own.
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The students will start by having a simple conversation. Then they will move into a speed dating activity. They will be using the questions that they created during the previous lab. To wrap things up they will talk about how they are going to practice their Spanish over break.
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Students will create hypothetical inventions to solve a problem. Using reasoning to support their argument, they will present their idea to a group in a persuasive manner.
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In this activity, students will learn how to share their interpretations on artwork from the Spanish-speaking world. They will discuss art and express their opinion with a partner or in a group. Students will answer questions across different time frames (past, present, future).
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Students will be put into groups to create their own tv show using the vocabulary words provided on the slides.
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Students will chat about popular movies and TV shows. They will discuss their opinions and preferences regarding movies and TV shows. Students will also decide appropriate ways to provide recommendations about what to watch.
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The Spanish O.R. Index is a Google site of Internet resources that can be used in the Spanish-language classroom. Indexed resources contain authentic or authentic-like materials and are marked with keywords for thematic unit or content. By referring to the Google site, teachers can use the time looking for usable resources as time to create and scaffold.
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