Unit Theme: My School Life
Level 1, Unit 2
Spanish
Duration of Unit: 40 hours
Context for the Integrated Performance Assessment
You are expecting and exchange students from Peru to attend your school this fall and need to familiarize them with what
it will be like when they arrive.
Grammar Task
Time
Verb conjugations (AR, ER, IR)
Vocabulary
Interpretive Task
Look over a typical Spanish school schedule. Answer questions relating to the passage.
Interpersonal Task
Answer 5 of 10 questions about your classes, your school schedule, and your school life.
Presentational Task
Write about the school schedule according to the instructions given.
Project
Create a school schedule according to the instructions given.
Unit Understanding(s)
Students will understand that…
 Schools vary from culture to culture
 Classes vary from culture to culture
 School activities, school sponsored events, and school
schedules vary from culture to culture
 There are similarities and differences between verb
conjugations in different languages.
 The concept of time varies from culture to culture
Unit Essential Question(s)
 What factors influence your classes
 How is your future determined by school classes?
 How are school activities affected by culture?
Students Will
Describe their school schedules
Ask questions about school related topics
Compare their own school and those in Latin America
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Unit Theme: My School Life
Level 1, Unit 2
Spanish
Duration of Unit: 40 hours
North Carolina Essential Standards
NH.CLL.1.1 Use simple phrases and short sentences to exchange
information about familiar topics.
NH.CLL.1.2 Generate conversations using familiar vocabulary and
structures in short social interactions.
NH.CLL.1.3 Generate responses to familiar questions, statements,
commands, or other stimuli.
NH.CLL.1.4 Use simple questions about familiar topics to acquire
needed information.
NH.CLL.2.1 Understand ideas on familiar topics expressed in short
sentences and frequently used expressions.
NH.CLL.3.1 Create simple phrases and short sentences in spoken or
written presentations to provide information about
familiar topics.
NH.CLL.3.3 Produce simple dialogues and short skits using familiar
structures and vocabulary.
NH.CLL.4.1 Classify basic cultural practices of people in the target
culture and the students’ culture.
NH.CLL.4.2 Use learned cognates and loan words to express ideas
on familiar topics.
NH.CLL.4.3 Analyze the language conventions from simple written
and spoken texts in the target language.
NH.COD.1.1 Use simple phrases and short sentences to exchange
information about topics in other disciplines.
NH.COD.3.1 Use the target language to give short spoken or written
presentations about familiar academic topics.
NH.COD.3.3 Use readily available technology tools and digital
literacy skills to present academic information in the
target language.
NH.COD.4.1 Understand cultural practices and perspectives from
the target culture.
NH.CMT.1.1 Use simple phrases and short sentences in short social
interactions.
Eugene Ashley High School
Unit Theme: My School Life
Level 1, Unit 2
Spanish
Duration of Unit: 40 hours
NH.CMT.4.1 Compare traditions and events of the target culture
and the students’ culture.
NH.CMT.4.2 Identify examples of products, practices, and
perspectives in the community related to the target
culture.
NH.CMT.4.3 Identify key characteristics of target culture traditions
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Unit Theme: My School Life
Vocabulary
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Vocabulary to
describe clases
pg 105
Difícil
Fácil
Aburrido
Interesante
Divertido
Favorita
Fantástico
Magnifico
Estúpido
Names of
subjects pg 105
arte
inglés
ciencias
español
historia
matematicas
educación física
almuerzo
Places in school
pg 129
Auditorio
Cafetería
Cancha
Oficina
Oficina del director
Sala de las clases
Pasillo
Level 1, Unit 2
Spanish
Duration of Unit: 40 hours
Grammatical
Content
-Adjective
agreement to
describe classes
-Verb graphic organizer
(pubshare)
-Uses of ser to
describe classes
-Guided notes - verb
conjugations (Pubshare)
-Use of tener to talk
about classes you
have
-Video clip ( “Conjugations
Back)
Resources and Materials
Instructional Strategies/Culture
Instructional Strategies:
 Lotería de Nombres – Bingo
Nombre – put a list of questions on
the board – students must write the
questions into a bingo board –
students then walk around and find
the students

Pelota Mala – students speak in
Spanish, if anyone is speaking
English, they are thrown a ball.
They now have pelota mala.
Whoever has it at the end of the
block must do something (like push
in chair, be the last to leave, etc.)

Silent Ball – students are in a circle,
sitting on their desks. silent! They
toss the ball to each other and call
out vocabulary words. Review
activity.

Onion activity – have students (or
teacher) write questions on paper
and crumple up the paper and roll
the paper on top of the other papers.
Teacher plays music, and students’
play hot potato with the ball. When
the music stops, they must peel a
question off the onion and answer it
-Video clip (Quack video)
-Necesitar to talk
about what you need
in each class
-Introduce –ar, -er,
and-ir verbs to talk
about school life
-Tener + que
-Tener idioms
Internet resources:
http://www.spaleon.com/ Conjugating Verbs online – students
get immediate feedback, but cannot
be submitted to teacher
http://www.youtube.com/user/SrMara
- Parodies of Justin Timberlake for
Verb Conjugations
http://www.quia.com/ - quiz students
online
-Telling time
http://www.epals.com/ - get an
internet pen pal – you register and all
emails go to you first
http://www.studyspanish.com/ http://www.moma.org/ - art exhibits
online – especially useful during
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Unit Theme: My School Life
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El estacionamiento
El salón de clase
Gimnasio
School Supplies
Borrador
Calculadora
Cuaderno
Escritorio
Lápiz
Mapa
Mochila
Papel
Ventana
Carpeta
Tiza
Silla
Reloj
Regla
Puerta
Pluma
Pizarrón
Computadora
Libro
Clase
Escuela
Secondaria
Bloque
con
Level 1, Unit 2
Spanish
Duration of Unit: 40 hours
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Speaking Drills – create a
transparency (or any other data
point) with columns of information.
Students must quickly go through
the information and speak. You can
do this with ANY information you
are covering. Make it work for you.
They are super easy to create

Speak for 1.5 minutes about getting
to know each other – talk about
gestures in other countries – ask
students to incorporate appropriate
gestures

conversation circles – 10 questions
on a note card, divide students up –
inside circle has a questions and asks
the same question – outside circle
moves and answers

Attendance questions – 10 min.
activity - while taking attendance,
students answer certain questions,
sometimes all the same, sometimes
all different – up to the teacher

Buenas noticias – 30 sec activity students begin with the weather and
date and information for the day

Yarn activity – student is required to
pull out colored yard and speak in
Spanish until the color o the yarn
http://www.polleverywhere.com/ like a twitter, anonymous polling –
Be careful with the texting comments
because you cannot track comments
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/ geography puzzle pieces
http://www.newseum.org - online
new articles
http://freerice.com/ - internet
flashcards – random vocabulary
words
http://jeopardylabs.com – create a
jeopardy game for your students.
Options for Online Projects
http://animoto.com/ - online projects
http://www.audacity.com/ - upload
voices
http://www.pixton.com/ - create your
own comics – best if used as a project
outside of class or in 20 minutes at a
lab (not including instructional time)
AR, ER, IR Verb
List
http://goanimate.com/ - create your
own character – send project with
students and have them e-mail it to
the teacher.
Time Vocabulary
-luego
Additional resources:
http://quizlet.com/ - Free site that
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Unit Theme: My School Life
Mas tarde
Próximo
Primero
Después (de)
Antes
De vez en cuando
Muchas veces
Mucho
Nunca
Siempre
Todos los días
Cada dia
Tenemos
Tienen
En punto
A tiempo
Cuarto
Minuto
Media
La hora
Menos
De la mañana
Tarde
Noche
Es la
Son las
A la
A las
El horario
A que hora
Temprano
tarde
Level 1, Unit 2
Spanish
Duration of Unit: 40 hours
changes – other students are to listen
and answer random questions
allows you and your students to
make electronic flash cards
www.mindomo.com – students can
create Venn diagrams

Talk a thons – 2 week activity students are giving a document and
have to write the conversation with
the questions who, what when where
why and how. The conversations
are graded on their grammar and are
paired up. The students then
memorize parts of the conversation
and present it to the class

Communication gap activities (¿A
qué hora tienes la clase de inglés?)
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Paired activities

Questioning strategies (yes/no,
either/or, multiple choice, one
word/short answer
www.techsmith.com/jing/ - this
allows students to capture images and
create videos or share information
www.voki.com – this allows students
to add a voice and information to
various characters. It makes the
content come to life.
www.voicethread.com – this allows
students to create a slide show while
narrating the information on various
slides
www.glogster.com- students can
create online collages to show the
material they are learning
www.hippocampus.org – online
digital media that provides homework
help and additional material
Listening Activities

Take a Spanish song and delete
some of the words. Students receive
bonus credit for every word they get
correct.

20 yr old guy who knows 11
languages – Alex Rawlings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5
5_G66g02QU
vimeo.com – this allows students
upload videos
http://www.izzit.org/events/index.php
- This site provides a different daily
news article with a series of
discussion questions every weekday
throughout the school year.
Eugene Ashley High School
Unit Theme: My School Life
Level 1, Unit 2
Spanish
Duration of Unit: 40 hours
www.wordle.com – students can
create various word art using terms
from daily lesson
www.timetoast.com – this provides
interactive timelines for students to
view and they can create their own
www.bubblecomment.com – this
allows teachers or students to add 30
second videos in a bubble form to
any website
onetruemedia.com - students can
create various videos
http://www.opendiary.com/ - online
diary that students can use for daily
writing assignments and can share
with others in the class or teachers
quizlet.com – students can create
flashcards that are interactive,
practice material in test form, play
review games
http://www.vizu.com/index.html this allows you to create polls you
can use in you classroom that
students can respond to
www.doodle.com –this allows
students to respond to events you are
holding or use calendars to remind
them of assignments
www.slideshare.com – this allows
students to upload PowerPoint’s to
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1 semester of Spanish love song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n
gRq82c8Baw
Culture:
*Teenage behavior
*school norms
*class schedules
*Galeria Hispanica – take photos and
upload to a power points. Teacher
writes an excerpt for each picture (
Flags, people, food, literature, art, all
about one country )
Unit Theme: My School Life
Level 1, Unit 2
Spanish
Duration of Unit: 40 hours
create a video
www.xtranormal.com – this allows
students to create cartoons to express
their comprehension of the material
www.animoto.com – this allows
students to create a short video that
contains content information
www.zooburst.com – this allows
students to create interactive 3D pop
up books
www.imageloop.com – this allows
students to create videos using
images and content
www.toondoo.com – this allows students
to create cartoon strips for the
information
www.chestercomix.com – this allows
you to find comic books that discuss
social studies topics
www.linoit.com – this allows you to
create a bulletin board of post it notes
that students can add to and you can have
an online discussion or share information
www.wikispaces.com – this allows you
to create a document that students can
edit and add information to
bubbl.us –students can create thinking
maps
Eugene Ashley High School
Unit Theme: My School Life
Level 1, Unit 2
Spanish
Duration of Unit: 40 hours
Eugene Ashley High School
Unit Theme: My School Life
Level 1, Unit 2
Spanish
Eugene Ashley High School
Duration of Unit: 40 hours