HS Spanish Guide

SPANISH LEVEL 4

UNIT 1 LA VIDA ACTUAL

PACING

PROFICIENCY LEVEL RESOURCE(S)

KEY LANGUAGE USE(S)

● Entre Culturas Unit 1 ● Temas

3-4 weeks

Intermediate Mid

EXPLAIN NARRATE AGUE

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S)

CULTURAL CONNECTION(S)

● ¿Cómo somos in fl uenciados por las personas a nuestro alrededor? ● ¿Cómo nos comunicamos en el mundo actual? ● ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre un viajero y un turista? ● ¿Cómo los viajeros experimentan la vida diaria en otra cultura?

● las relaciones personales ● los viajes y el ocio ● las redes sociales y la ciudadanía global ● las artes visuales y escénicas ● la arquitectura ● la moda y el diseño ● de fi niciones de la creatividad ● la conciencia social

END OF UNIT COMPETENCY WITH LANGUAGE EXPECTATIONS ● Compare products, practices and perspectives about friendship, communication, travel, leisure and daily life in your own and other cultures. ● Understand essential information and main ideas in authentic sources about friendship, communication, travel, leisure and daily life in other cultures ● Exchange information and express opinions about friendship, communication, travel, leisure and daily life in other cultures. ● Present information to describe, inform, compare, give advice and express opinions about friendship, communication, travel, leisure and daily life in your own and other cultures. Language Functions & Features: ● words and expressions related to friendship, communication, travel daily life (la amistad, la comunicación, los viajes, la vida cotidiana) ● present subjunctive to talk about something or someone unknown (eg. verbs with - cer ending) ● expressions to share advice/recommendations (eg. es + adjective + que + verb in the present subjunctive; indirect object pronoun + verb of recommendation in the conditional + que + imperfect subjunctive; indirect object pronoun + verb of recommendation in the present indicative + que + present subjunctive) ● familiar and formal commands (eg. que tenga buen dia) ● conditional tense to discuss things that would happen in the future (eg. me gustaria viajar) Use a variety of visuals with captions to de fi ne meaning of words and phrases. ● Use a graphic organizer to differentiate vocabulary, phrases, & images for students to make associations between objects & vocabulary. ● Pair with partners to practice conversation/group students to allow opportunity for them to practice speaking. Before assigning students a conversation, model the conversation, and provide sentence frames or sentence starters. ● Use gestures and oral repetition of key phrases and words in multiple contexts. ● For additional adjective practice, have students change the adjective form from masculine to femine, from singular to plural form to describe different individuals. ● Provide opportunities for more conversation with fl uent speakers via Zoom or Google Meet. ● Provide more complex text in Spanish for students to read. ● Have students record themselves speaking the language and re fl ect on their progress. ● Students can practice translating from English to Spanish in speech or writing. Extension https://wida.wisc.edu/sites/default/ fi les/resource/WIDA-ELD-Standards-Framework-2020.pdf SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION Skill Building ●

*Updated 7.12.23