Unit Theme:Vamos de viaje
Level 2, Unit 3
Spanish 2
Duration of Unit: 30 hours
Context for the Integrated Performance Assessment
Interpretive Task
Read about Sara’s trip to Costa Rica. Answer questions based on the reading.
Interpersonal Task
Students will discuss events that they did in the past.
Presentational Task
Students will describe what they did on a trip and how they made the plans to go on the trip.
Project: Tarjeta Postal
Unit Understanding(s)
Students will understand that…
 Various documents are needed to travel worldwide.
 Bartering is a frequent method used in open air markets in
many Spanish speaking countries.
 The value of the U.S. dollar changes due to exchange rates
when travelling.
 Patterns that existed in the present tense are not the same in
the preterite tense.
Unit Essential Question(s)
 How can you effectively communicate in a Spanish speaking
country?
 How do your past experiences and travels affect your present
life?
 What information is essential when planning for an
international trip?
Students will …
 Ask for and exchange information about past events.
 discuss past travel plans.
 Utilize the preterite accurately.
Eugene Ashley High School
Unit Theme:Vamos de viaje
Level 2, Unit 3
Spanish 2
Duration of Unit: 30 hours
North Carolina World Language Essential Standards
Students
NM.CLL.2.2 Understand the meaning of memorized words and phrases in sentences
NM.CLL.2.4 Infer conclusions from simple spoken and written passages about familiar topics, using context clues and
cognates
NM.CLL.2.5 Understand language components (stems, prefixes, tones, verb endings, parts of speech) that are used in
the target language.
NM.CLL.3.1 Use memorized words and phrases in presentations on familiar topics, such as likes, dislikes, emotions,
everyday activities, and immediate surroundings.
NM.CLL.3.3 Use appropriate pronunciation and voice inflection in spoken presentations.
NM.CLL.4.1 Compare basic cultural practices of people in the target culture and the students’ culture.
NM.COD.2.3 Interpret short, non-fiction passages from academic content areas using context clues (signs, charts,
graphs, etc.).
NM.CMT.1.1 Use memorized words and phrases to ask and answer simple questions on familiar topics.
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.1.4 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 expression
NH.CLL.3.1 Create simple phrases and short sentences in spoken or written presentations to provide information about
familiar topics.
NH.CLL.4.3 Analyze the language conventions from simple written and spoken texts in the target language.
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Unit Theme:Vamos de viaje
Lexical
Content
Travel preparations:
La agencia de viajes
El/la agente de viajes
Confirmar el vuelo
Hacer la maleta
Hacer un viaje
Ir de vacaciones
Llamar a
Viajar
El boleto
El boleto de ida y vuelta
El equipaje
La identificación
El itinerario
La maleta
El pasaporte
La tarjeta de embarque
El traje de bano
Abordar
Aterriza
La escala
Hacer la escala
La ventanilla
Un vuelo sin escala
El pasillo
El aeropuerto
El/la auxiliar de vuelo
Facturar el equipaje
Hacer cola
La pantalla
El/la pasajero(a)
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Level 2, Unit 3
Spanish 2
Support
Structures
Preterite
Ar verbs p. 65
ER/IR verbs p. 95
Irregular (dar, ser,
hacer, ir) p. 70
Irregular stem p. 173
Stem changing verbs
p. 178, 232
Car, gar, zar p. 227
I  y verbs p. 226
Duration of Unit: 30 hours
Suggested Resources
and Materials
 Avancemos 2
Suggested
Instructional Strategies
Instructional
Strategies:
 Vacation vocabulary
Internet resources:
http://www.spaleon.com
– create a trip for the
/ - Conjugating Verbs
teacher – tell teacher
online – students get
where she is going,
immediate feedback, but
who with and what
cannot be submitted to
s/he is going to do
teacher
there – students vote
on their favorite
http://www.youtube.com
vacation
/user/SrMara - Parodies
of Justin Timberlake for  Lotería de Nombres
Verb Conjugations
– Bingo Nombre –
put a list of questions
http://www.quia.com/ on the board –
quiz students online
students must write
the questions into a
http://www.epals.com/ bingo board –
get an internet pen pal –
students then walk
you register and all
around and find the
emails go to you first
students
http://www.studyspanish
.com/ http://www.moma.org/ art exhibits online –
especially useful during
http://www.polleverywh
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
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
Culture
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Entertainment
Travel norms
Geography
Languages
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:Vamos de viaje
Pasar por seguidad
La puerta
La salida
El vuelo
Por favor , ¿dónde
queda…?
La estación de tren
La oficina de turismo
La casa de cambio
La parada de autobús
Tomar un taxi
La llegada
Pasar por la aduana
El reclamo de equipaje
Going on vacation:
El barco
El bote de vela
La canoa
Hacer un crucero
Hacer esquí acuático
Hacer moto acuática
Hacer el surf de vela
La isla
Bucear
El mar
Nadar
Patinar
Patinar en línea
La playa
Tomar el sol
Acampar
Dar una caminata
Estar de vacaciones
Level 2, Unit 3
Spanish 2
Duration of Unit: 30 hours
ere.com/ - like a twitter,
anonymous polling – Be
careful with the texting
comments because you
cannot track comments
http://www.sheppardsoft
ware.com/ - geography
puzzle pieces
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

Speaking Drills –
create a transparency
http://www.newseum.or
g - 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.co
m/ - upload voices
http://www.pixton.com/
- create your own
comics – best if used as
a project outside of class
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Unit Theme:Vamos de viaje
Hacer una excursión
Mandar tarjetas postales
Montar a caballo
Pescar
El tiempo libre
Tomar fotos
El/la turista
Ver las atraciónes
Visitar un museo
El alojamiento
El ascensor
La habitación
-doble
-individual
La cabaña
El huésped
Hacer/tener una
reservación
El hostal
El hotel
La llave
La recepción
El regalo
Recibir
El papel de regalo
El anillo
El arete
Las artesanías
El collar
Las joyas
El recuerdo
La tarjeta postal
Bello
Caro
Level 2, Unit 3
Spanish 2
Duration of Unit: 30 hours
or in 20 minutes at a lab
(not including
instructional time)
(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
http://goanimate.com/ create your own
character – send project
with students and have
them e-mail it to the
teacher.
Additional resources:
http://quizlet.com/ Free site that allows
you and your students
to make electronic
flash cards

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
www.mindomo.com –
students can create Venn
diagrams
www.techsmith.com/jin
g/ - 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.
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Unit Theme:Vamos de viaje
Demasiado
El dinero en efectivo
El mercado al aire libre
Regatear
La tarjeta de crédito
Anteayer
El año pasado
El mes pasado
La semana pasado
Travel documents:
El certificado de
nacimiento
La inmigración
La visa
Level 2, Unit 3
Spanish 2
Duration of Unit: 30 hours
www.voicethread.com –
this allows students to
create a slide show while
narrating the information
on various slides
www.glogster.comstudents can create
online collages to show
the material they are
learning
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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 changes – other
students are to listen
and answer random
questions
www.hippocampus.org
– online digital media
that provides homework
help and additional
material
vimeo.com – this allows
students upload videos
http://www.izzit.org/eve
nts/index.php - This site
provides a different
daily news article with a
series of discussion
questions every weekday
throughout the school
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year.
www.wordle.com –
students can create
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Talk a thons – 2
week activity students are giving a
document and have
to write the
conversation with
Unit Theme:Vamos de viaje
Level 2, Unit 3
Spanish 2
Duration of Unit: 30 hours
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
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
www.bubblecomment.co
m – this allows teachers
or students to add 30
second videos in a
bubble form to any
Listening Activities
website
onetruemedia.com  Alphabet song
students can create
http://www.youtube.
various videos
com/watch?v=JUcu9
PUh9_A
http://www.opendiary.co
m/ - online diary that
 Numbers to 30
students can use for
http://www.youtube.
daily writing
com/watch?v=L26jw
assignments and can
qF9Zro
share with others in the
class or teachers
 Take a Spanish song
quizlet.com – students
and delete some of
can create flashcards that
the words. Students
are interactive, practice
receive bonus credit
material in test form,
for every word they
play review games
get correct.
http://www.vizu.com/ind 
ex.html - this allows you
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20 yr old guy who
knows 11 languages
Unit Theme:Vamos de viaje
Level 2, Unit 3
Spanish 2
Duration of Unit: 30 hours
– Alex Rawlings
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=55_G
66g02QU
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
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
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1 semester of
Spanish love song
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=ngRq8
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Unit Theme:Vamos de viaje
Level 2, Unit 3
Spanish 2
Duration of Unit: 30 hours
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:Vamos de viaje
Level 2, Unit 3
Spanish 2
Duration of Unit: 30 hours
Eugene Ashley High School
Unit Theme:Vamos de viaje
Level 2, Unit 3
Spanish 2
Duration of Unit: 30 hours
Context for the Integrated Performance Assessment
Interpretive Task
Read about Sara’s trip to Costa Rica. Answer questions based on the reading.
Interpersonal Task
Students will discuss events that they did in the past.
Presentational Task
Students will describe what they did on a trip and how they made the plans to go on the trip.
Project: Tarjeta Postal
Eugene Ashley High School