Conexiones v8.1: making connections outside of the Spanish classroom
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Tarea:
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Social
Network
2
Spanish
Channel
3
Pandora
4
Cooking
6
Household
Products
7
Dining out
8
Biografía
9
DVD
10 Public Event
12
Coloring
books
13 Wordsearch
14
Cellular or
MP3
15
TWEET
16
17
Bookstores
SPE
Objetivo:
In the “Evidencias” box:
Log in to your favorite social networking site and change
Write 5 words/expressions you learned and what they
the language to Spanish. Explore your profile in Spanish
mean in English.
and find five terms that you can recognize.
Watch a Spanish channel for 30 minutes.
What station was it and what was the program?
Is it like programs you watch in English?
Why or why not?
Create a Pandora station in Spanish. Listen to at least five
Answer:
songs on your new station.
1. What five songs did you hear in Spanish?
2. Is the music like what you listen to in English?
3. Why or why not?
Prepare a recipe from http://www.quericavida.com/
Answer:
1. What is the name of the recipe?
2. Is it like food you normally eat?
*You do not have to print the photo if you can show it
3. Why or why not?
digitally in class.
Show, print, or upload a photo of your dish.
Read product information in Spanish on items around the
Write 5 words/expressions you learned and what they
house. Using the English version and context clues, figure
mean in English.
out the meanings of five different words.
Go to a restaurant (or other place of business) where the
Turn in a note, in SPANISH, from an employee saying
employees speak Spanish and use only Spanish to talk to
that you spoke only in Spanish.
them.
Use the internet to find a biography (in Spanish) of a
Answer:
famous Spanish-speaker. Go to http://wordle.net and
1. Who did you research?
create a WORDLE copying the text of the biography.
2. What are the three most prominent words?
Print or upload your Wordle.
Change your DVD settings to use Spanish subtitles. By
Write 10 words/expressions you learned and what
listening in English and by using context clues, write your
they mean in English.
understood meaning of ten words.
Attend a public event (such as a church service) in
Answer:
Spanish. Keep a program or brochure from the event.
1. What was the event? The date/time?
2. What did you learn?
Show me a brochure from the event.
Find a coloring book page and label twenty items on the
page in Spanish. It can be a copy from a book or a
printable coloring page online. Do not color the page.
Find a twenty-word vocab list online or create your own
from a specific category. Create a word search puzzle
from the Spanish terms. http://www.puzzle-maker.com/
Change the language on your device to Spanish for an
entire week. What new words do you learn from the
experience?
Send out a tweet in Spanish and English. Minimum 100
characters. Tag friends from Spanish class!
Explore the Spanish-language section of a bookstore. Do
you recognize any titles that you are familiar with in
English?
Visit the Spanish Language Proficiency exercises at
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/ and listen to at least
three segments of speech. Read the text and write five
words you understand. View the text in English and write
down five more words you can identify. Listen to the text
again without reading and reflect on how well you
understand what is being said.
Submit the page. Do not color it.
Turn in the word search. Do not complete it.
1.
2.
1.
2.
Write the dates of the change.
Write 5 words/expressions you learned and what they
mean in English.
Write out your tweet in both languages.
Answer:
Write two titles you recognize.
Write the titles of two more books you might find
interesting.
Make two lists (5 words in each list), one of the words
you already recognized and one of the words you
figured out by listening to and reading both
languages.
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HASHTAG
19 Audio-Lingua
20
Headlines
22
Postcards
23
Teach
24
VOKI
26
MUSIC
27
CLEVERBOT
30
Interview
31
Karaoke
32
Meme
33
Texting
34
Wattpad
Hashtag a Spanish Word and read the last ten tweets with
that tag (skip tweets that are not in Spanish). Choose one
word from each tweet. Find out what the word means if
you do not know it.
Listen to two files from http://www.audio-lingua.eu/
1.
2.
Visit one of the newspaper sites listed below. Scan the 1.
headlines and select five that you can tell, more or less,
what they are about.
2.
http://www.diariodemocracia.com/index.asp (Argentina),
http://www.lun.com/ (Colombia),
http://www.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/ (Venezuela),
http://www.elpais.com.uy/ (Uruguay),
http://www.elnuevodia.com/ (Puerto Rico),
http://www.prensa.com/ (Panamá),
http://www.diariodesevilla.es/ (España),
http://www.diariodemorelos.com/ (México).
Send an online postcard to a friend. Use the site,
http://www.kisseo.es/. Pick a card. Write a message in
Spanish of at least three sentences. For your email
address, use [email protected]
Teach a parent a grammar lesson in Spanish.
Write the ten words (one from each tweet) in Spanish
and English.
Write the names of the two files you listened to.
Write a list of ten words from the files, in English and
Spanish.
Write the name of the newspaper and the date of
publication.
Write the five titles and what you think they mean in
English.
Write what the message said (at least three
sentences).
Record the lesson or submit your lesson plan and
parent signature.
Write complete link to your VOKI.
Create an avatar at http://voki.com using your own
recorded voice. Minimum of one minute, using only
Spanish.
Visit http://lyricsgaps.com and complete a song in
Print your completed song
Spanish
Visit http://cleverbot.com and ask him five questions in
Record your questions and his responses. Are his
Spanish.
replies logical?
Interview a native speaker.
Write five questions and their answers.
Record yourself singing a Spanish song. Minimum 2
Email the recording to [email protected]
minutes.
Create a Meme in Spanish and share it on Social Media. Show in class that you shared it.
Text a conversation with a friend in Spanish. Must have a Print or upload a screen shot, or show it to me in class.
minimum of five sentences/questions per person.
Read student-published material in Spanish on
Tell what you read and write a 3-4 line summary of the
wattpad.com
content.
Do not repeat the same activity in a quarter. If you repeat an activity in the following quarter, change the content.
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