Spanish Class: Teaching about School
A theme explored in any beginning Spanish class is talking about school. I have created a bundle of resources and lesson plans, and wanted to share those ideas. You can get the bundle or pick and choose to add to your repertoire.
Objectives. In this unit, students will learn how to talk about basic nouns in Spanish.
They will learn the four ways to say the.
They will learn basic nouns to talk about objects in a classroom.
They will learn how to talk about basic classes, and talk about their classes in Spanish.
They will also learn about basic school verbs.
They will learn the difference between masculine and feminine nouns.
Start with the PowerPoint and introduce basic school objects.
Print out the PDF bingo cards. Play Bingo on school items.
Vocab Quiz One. While it might seem a little bit soon to do a vocab quiz, this great immersive style of offering new vocabulary follows our natural order of language: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Print out the quiz file (School Supplies Visuals). You’re going to want to use these pictures on different days. You might want to laminate them so you can keep them for a long time. You also want some kind of adhesive: removable, easy adhesive, to use for walls or on your whiteboard to give a quiz. Students will actually take the quiz on their own piece of paper.
Training the first time takes a little bit of time, but the results are well worth it. Pick between six and eight words that you’ll give as a quiz the first time. Divide that file up over the course of a few days. Some days you may even do less.
Introduce the pictures, which they’ve already seen in bingo, and the PowerPoint, and which simply asks for recognition. Have them come up and point to them, giving them choices, introducing no more than two or three new at a time. As you’ve introduced, and they’ve identified them, perhaps getting out of their seat and pointing, or giving some kind of signal that they know what you’re talking about, you’re going to use whatever adhesive and just stick that to the board.
Then, when you’ve got all the words that you’ve decided to give as a quiz (be that five, six, seven, eight- depends on your students), you’re going to want to have them start saying them, as you point. That’s step two.
Next, you’re going to give them a little listening quiz. You’re going to want to write down on the board the numbers, one through six, one through seven, one through eight- however many words you’re giving them on this quiz. You then write letters underneath each one of the pictures.
Lesson bundle included here: https://real-life-language.teachable.com/p/immersive-beginning-spanish-lessons