Lesson Overview
Grade Level/Audience: This lesson plan is intended for young adults and adult learners who will be traveling to a Spanish speaking country in the future.
Subject: This lesson plan focuses on words and phrases that wil be helpful to navigate through a Spanish speaking country.
Time Frame: This lesson should take no longer than thirty to forty-five minutes and should be repeated with variations once a week for six weeks to drive understanding of the words and phases. (6 classes)
Content Standards:
The following content standards were used to create this lesson plan for K-12 Education from the North Carolina Public School’s official content standards for learning World Languages.
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/curriculum/worldlanguages/scos/
Technology Standards:
- ISTE 2: Digital Citizen – Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.
- ISTE 5: Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.
- ISTE 7: Global Collaborator – Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.
Objectives:
- Given the daily warm up activity, the students will be able to discern the most important phrases to learn for traveling by popularity among the class.
- Given all the speaking activities, the learner will be able to accurately pronounce critical words and phrases for traveling in Spanish speaking countries.
- Given the listening activities, the learner will be able to discern the different basic words and phrases (at a minimum the phrases used in the warm up video as these are repeated throughout the other activities).
- Given the speaking activities (online and in person conversations) the students will gain a minimum level of comfort needed to use the words and phrases learned in the classroom with native speakers.
- Given the multiple blog posts the students create throughout the 6 classes, the student will have created a basic reference guide that they can access to continue learning after the course is over.
Description of Technologies Used:
- Static Technologies: (Free)
- Coffee Break Spanish Podcast
- This podcast has 15 minute episodes with a variety of instructors speaking different words and phrases and explaining when to use them. This gives practice listening and speaking. It can be accessed online on a web browser or using the person’s preferred podcast app for iPhone or Android.
- https://radiolingua.com/category/coffee-break-spanish/
- Coffee Break Spanish Podcast
- Online Collaboration Tool: (Free)
- Google Hangouts (optional – online only)
- This online collaboration tool uses the student’s Google account to send messages and have video/audio calls online for free. It also has a mobile device app option for both iPhone and Android
- https://hangouts.google.com/
- Google Hangouts (optional – online only)
- Multimedia mini-projects: (Free)
- FlipGrid
- This is an online collaboration tool that also has a mobile app option available. Students should can use their computer or mobile device to record a video response 2-4mins in length and other students can watch, comment, and record response videos.
- https://flipgrid.com/
- FlipGrid
- Mobile App: (Free)
- Duolingo
- For iPhone or Android or Web Browser – this mobile app is a free language learning tool that combines flash card-like games with listening and speaking activities that moves through different topic areas to teach important words and phrases in the language of your choice.
- https://www.duolingo.com/
- Duolingo
- Portfolio: (Free)
- Blog site
- This can be a Google Site, WordPress Blog, or Wix Blog
- Each of the above sites are free to use and are quick to set up.
- Blog site
Support Materials and Resources:
- Laptop with internet access (ability to access a web browser)
- Smart phone or tablet with internet access and video/audio recording capability
- Flip chart/white board/ poster board or paper and marker or Classroom projector
- Headphones with microphone, computer with microphone, or mobile device with microphone (all need video recording capability as well)
Lesson Description
This lesson can be done individually or as a class, however, this lesson plan is written in the format that the lesson would be completed in an in-person classroom environment. If this lesson is being completed online have class discussions be completed in discussion boards and all group activities be posted in a separate discussion board by one group member. All class video activities will have to be done individually and responses recorded in a discussion board among students.
Learning languages is best done by practicing speaking, listening, and reading. This lesson combines all three activities with the use of various technologies.
Instructor Pre-work: 10 mins
- Instructor will write or type the 30 phrases in the video below onto a slide to project during class. The instructor will write tally marks next to each phrase during the Warm Up Activity to track which phrases were chosen by students.
- Instructor will make a class Flipgrid for students to post videos. https://flipgrid.com/
Grading: 10 points + bonus points (2 point maximum)
Students will be graded solely on participation. This includes the use of Spanish and actively completing the activities. Points are detailed in the activities below. Each student can earn 10 points per class for a total of 60 points throughout the 6 classes. There is a maximum of 2 bonus points available per class during the prework/homework warm up activity for a maximum of 12 bonus points.
Student Pre-work: 10 mins
Before class, students should review the following video and choose 3 phrases they think they would use most often and write them down to bring into class the next day. Students should also create a blog on Google Sites, WordPress, or Wix to record these words. This will become their portfolio of critical words/phrases. Students must create a new blog post for each completed activity where blog posts are mentioned. This also helps record when students complete activities. Links to blogs should be submitted to the instructor via email or discussion board.
TIP! Encourage students to pause the video and practice saying the phrases as they go along.
Warm Up Activity: (Objective 1) 30 mins
Each student will take turns presenting the phrases they chose in the prework/homework to the class. The other students should be able to respond by saying what the phrase is in English. Those who answer correctly should be awarded one bonus point on their overall score. This activity is to get students to start talking and using the words and phrases in front of other people out loud. It also helps the other students with their listening skills because they will hear certain phrases multiple times.
The instructor will write tally marks next to each phrase that was chosen by each student and project this data on the board. This will show what the class thought was most important collectively. The class should discuss why the top three became the top three. This will show which phrases should be memorized first for travel.
Grading: (2 points + bonus points)
- Students will receive 1 point each for participation by presenting their phrases.
- Students will receive 1 point for showing that they wrote down the phrases from the prework activity on their blog.
Speaking Activity: 10 mins
For online classes this should be a regular activity. For in-person classes this should be assigned as homework or students should find a private, quiet setting to record their videos apart from other students in their class so they can focus on speaking and listening. (May require headphones w/ microphone)
Using the class flipgrid set up by the instructor, students will be assigned to groups of 2 and should practice speaking by recording some of the phrases they have learned into a conversation. For example:
- Student A will record a video saying:
- Their name and where they are from in Spanish. They will then ask what the next person’s name and where they are from in Spanish.
- Student B will record a response video doing the same thing.
- Student B will record a video asking 2 more questions of their choice.
- Student A will record a response video to those questions.
Students should discuss in their response videos if they understood what their partner was saying and if they felt that they knew how to respond correctly or not.
Grading: (5 points)
The instructor should take note of participation during this activity for grading. Students who meet all above criteria for participation should receive 5 points.
- 1 point for posting a video
- 1 point for responding to a video
- 1 point for viewing each video (2 points total)
- 1 point for recording using Spanish phrases
Listening/Speaking Activity: (Objective 2) 15 mins
Using the Season 1 – Lesson 01 Podcast of Coffee Break Spanish
The instructor should play the lesson on their preferred podcast app or using the website on a computer during class. Students should listen to the podcast as a class and repeat the words as the podcast instructs.
Grading: (1 point)
The instructor should take note of participation during this activity. Students will receive 1 point for participating.
https://radiolingua.com/category/coffee-break-spanish/
Closing In-class Activity: (5 mins)
Students should practice speaking in pairs using the words/phrases they have learned thus far. (This should be done via Google Hangouts or Discussion Board – written – if in an online class) This should be a 3 minute activity.
Students should record at least 3 more critical words/phrases on their blog by the end of the class and date when they were added so the instructor can keep track of participation. This date should be recorded by using the blog post entry NOT pages.
Grading: (2 points)
Students should be given 1 point for participation.
Students should be given 1 point for posting their blog post with critical words.
Homework:
- Duolingo Mobile App (Can also be accessed via web browser)
- Duolingo should be used to practice vocabulary. The first five lessons should be completed for homework.
- Students should write down ten words or phrases that they think would be most useful when traveling. This will be presented to the class in the same discussion warm up activity as in the beginning of this lesson plan. This reiterates the three skills of listening, speaking, and writing/reading.
- See Activity Variation List below for a suggested course plan using the different activities to use over the six classes.
- https://www.duolingo.com/
Lesson Plan by Week with Variations:
- Class 1
- 30 Phrases YouTube Video prework used for the Warm up activity
- Speaking Activity w/ Flipgrid as detailed above.
- Listening/Speaking Activity w/ Coffee Break Spanish – use Lesson 1.01
- Closing Activity – Repeat as instructed above.
- Class 2
- First 5 lessons in Duolingo as Homework & used for Warm up activity
- Speaking Activity w/ Flipgrid but using new words and phrases from the homework.
- Listening/Speaking Activity w/ Coffee Break Spanish – use Lesson 1.02
- Closing Activity – Repeat as instructed above.
- Class 3
- Next 5 lessons in Duolingo as Homework & used for the Warm up activity
- Speaking Activity w/ Flipgrid but using new words and phrases from the homework.
- Listening/Speaking Activity w/ Coffee Break Spanish – use Lesson 1.03
- Closing Activity – Repeat as instructed above.
- Class 4
- Next 4 lessons in Duolingo as Homework & used for the Warm up activity
- Speaking Activity w/ Flipgrid but using new words and phrases from the homework.
- Listening/Speaking Activity w/ Coffee Break Spanish – use Lesson 1.04
- Closing Activity – Repeat as instructed above.
- Class 5
- Next 4 lessons in Duolingo as Homework & used for the Warm up activity
- Speaking Activity w/ Flipgrid but using new words and phrases from the homework.
- Listening/Speaking Activity w/ Coffee Break Spanish – use Lesson 1.05
- Closing Activity – Repeat as instructed above.
- Class 6
- Next 4 lessons in Duolingo as Homework & used for the Warm up activity
- Speaking Activity w/ Flipgrid but using new words and phrases from the homework.
- Listening/Speaking Activity w/ Coffee Break Spanish – use Lesson 1.06
- Closing Activity – Repeat as instructed above.
Supplementary Resources:
- List of additional learning tools
- List of additional podcasts
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