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Save hours of prep and use these lesson plans to help your students make cultural connections to the 2021 Sony Dreamworks film Vivo! These plans are ideal for pre-viewing, but can be used to extend post-viewing as well. Students will view a series of videos with a variety of scaffolded questions and reflection activities to dig deeper into the movie's setting and musical inspirations including: A news article with interviews from Lin-Manuel Miranda (co-creator and voice of Vivo)Celia Cruz (the

Have you shared different legends and folklore from Latin America with your students? Now have them create their own legend (ideally using present, preterite, and imperfect tenses)! Use this group project to assess your students' writing and speaking in a creative way that they will love. This completely editable document includes: - detailed directions and expectations - daily focus activities and deadlines - a brainstorming / note-taking page - a list of supplemental vocabulary (to

Struggling to get your Spanish students to actually talk during discussions—and stay in the target language? Try this student-friendly chat mat to support your language learners. Includes: Story elements vocabulary“En vez de decir no sé…” alternativesSentence stems for expressing opinionsHigh-impact analysis stemsOptions to ask for clarificationWays to agree, disagree, and share opinionsBuilt-in support for using text evidenceSupport for connecting ideasPerfect for: Literary circles or book

Looking for a way to reinforce locations AND prepositions with your students? Look no further than this visually appealing map activity, in which students must interpret various statements and clues in order to identify vocabulary and write appropriate sentences. Included are 8 vocabulary description sentences, 10 True/False + correction questions, and an answer key! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please feel free to provide

After introducing direct object pronouns and travel vocabulary, help your students practice using DOPs with this high energy game! Students will work in teams to piece together sentences in a relay fashion. The first team to have their sentence in the correct order wins a point! Your purchase includes: - Teacher instructions - Sentence pieces - A PowerPoint with 22 practice sentences The vocab used reflects travel vocabulary from Avancemos 2, Unidad 1, Leccion 1 and reinforces the words tha

Get your students out of their seats and speaking in the target language! This "human scavenger hunt" or "human bingo" activity asks students to talk about their weekend plans - where they are going and what they are going to do. Students ask and respond in full sentences to practice the structure IR + A. This activity can be set up as a race against classmates or against the clock, or as a simple, laid back speaking practice. You can further extend the speaking by having students ask a follo

Finished reading La Guerra Sucia by Nathaniel Kirby? This fun final project encourages both creative thinking and synthesizing of information by asking students to create their own newspaper or magazine article. Students are given two angles from which to attack their article, both of which require them to include historical context of Argentina's Dirty War as learned through the reading. The assessment document itself includes: project context, student scenarios, project requirements, and ru

We don't always have the time, budget, or energy to take our students on the amazing trips we wish we could... But thanks to the awesomeness that is technology, we can still help them explore the beauty and culture of foreign cities. With this editable three-part mini-project, your students will use Google Maps Street View to tour a Spanish-speaking city (and even see inside some buildings!) while picking up on cultural cues and comparisons. You can use this editable project to assess your stud

NO PREP!If your students are as competitive as mine, then they will love this editable review game! Students who know the answer to a question (or want to take a risk) stand up to try and earn their team points. Stealing allowed! This version will review: - the verb SER and its forms - adjective vocab - adjective agreement - definite articles - indefinite articles Questions are labeled as red and blue in order to combat complaints of fairness. As question format varies and points are stolen, you

I read about Running Dictation from the Comprehensible Classroom blog by Martina Bex. While I have made some modifications from her version, this highly engaging, cooperative activity has become a staple in my Spanish classroom. Your download includes: - a PDF document with teacher directions and projectable student directions - a lined writing page - a boxed drawing page

Looking to give your students contextual exposure to the verbs ser and estar? Use this story to preview different forms of each verb! After students read through the story, they will engage in focused scanning to identify the verbs and then analyze when to use each. Perfect for those who have taught using vocabulary structures from the SOMOS 1 curriculum by Martina Bex! The file is formatted as a Google Slide, allowing you to upload a copy for each student in your Google Classroom. If you see a

NO PREP! Help your students achieve varying levels of cognition as they explore the wonders of ancient cultures throughout Central and South America! Intended for Avancemos 2, Unidad 4 Leccion 2, this interactive multi-part webquest will: - guide students through different Aztec, Maya, and Inca ruins using Google Maps Street View - identify real-life examples of unit vocabulary - reflect on what they can learn or infer about cultural values based on cultural products - compare ancient and mode

Eliza is a young woman who travels often for her job. Read all about how she prepares for different trips. This reading is great for: reinforcing travel vocabularyreviewing time, weather, clothingintroducing reflexive verbs (se despierta, se cepilla, se va)Your download includes: 1 full page of comprehensible reading3 identification questions2 synonym/antonym matching exercisesA vertical conjugation rewrite (students rewrite from the 1st person perspective)If you see any errors, please send me a

Get your students out of their seats and speaking in the target language using preterite -car/-gar/-zar verbs in this "human scavenger hunt" / "human bingo" activity. Before speaking, students will practice conjugating these irregular verbs; this allows them to help their classmates when they get stuck or forget to practice complete sentences.

Marco and Mario are two twin brothers who are very picky. Their poor mother just wants them to be healthier! The story includes: 1.5 pages of comprehensible readingEmbedded "Párate y piensa" comprehension questionsPersonalized extension questionsThe story target the plural forms of gustar in context. Ideal for a classroom that supports (or is interested in) Comprehensible Input, and works well with the SOMOS 1 curriculum. Teachers who use Avancemos 1 will also find this resource helpful for in

NO PREP!If your students are as competitive as mine, then they will love this editable review game! Students who know the answer to a question (or want to take a risk) stand up to try and earn their team points. Stealing allowed! This version will review: - the verb SER and its forms - adjective vocab - adjective agreement - definite articles - indefinite articles Questions are labeled as red and blue in order to combat complaints of fairness. As question format varies and points are stolen, you

NO PREP! Use this three page guide to hold your students accountable as they watch a documentary on the Inca and Mayan civilizations. This viewing guide follows the order of the video, which comes from the Travel Channel's Secrets of Archaeology - The Road to El Dorado - and can be found on YouTube. A link is included as well. This topic goes along great with Avancemos 2, Unidad 4 and the guide also makes for great notes after watching! There is a transition in the video that makes for a gre

Introduce or review classes vocabulary with this visually appealing PowerPoint. Students are given detailed sentences to determine which class is being described. The sentences include common irregular verbs, as well as regular present tense verbs.

After introducing direct and indirect object pronouns, I created this challenge to get my students excited about using and producing IOPs (and to preview the use of double DOP/IOP), a concept that they had trouble connecting with application. In this challenge, students will scour through magazines to find pictures with which they can create crazy, creative sentences. The product is an editable PowerPoint complete with instructions, scoring guidelines, example sentences and scores, and the pro

I wrote this story for my Spanish 1 students last year. I introduced it toward the beginning of the year after introducing GUSTAR and love it because they really see how much they can understand after just a short time in Spanish class. It is also a great way to reinforce cognates, as this story is cognate-laden! Plus, Harry Potter references which never seem to get old. Your download includes both PDF and editable Word formats. ___________________________________________________________________