All of the "stories" (some are more like descriptions) are based on popular music videos. Students acquired a lot of language, were engaged, and saw a lot of cultural products, practices, and perspectives.
Here is an example for the song "To' my love" that I am going to start with this coming year. I think it is going to be a hit!
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These are the songs that are included. There are two immigration songs because we did a big immigration unit. Those two songs could be used at separate times during the semester.
Here is what I did almost every week with my Spanish 1 students:
- Monday:
- As students enter, play the song (do this every day all week), but don't show the video yet!
- Tell students the story/description in a Story Listening fashion (or read more about it here) , meaning just have students listen. Communicate meaning by drawing, acting, and/or writing in English. By doing this quiet listening, students are learning to make meaning of sounds.
- Show the video.
- If time (and if there is a cloze activity for the song), listen to the song, do a cloze activity, and go over the translation of the song in English. I have found that students will be much more engaged with songs if they get the gist of what it is saying!
- Tuesday:
- Listen to the song, read along, and try to sing the song.
- Students read the text of the story/description and translate it together as a class or in partners.
- If there is a slideshow,
- Start Textivate Sequence (due at end of the week). These are usually translations (Spanish to English) and Put the Story in Order.
- Wednesday:
- Work on Textivate Sequence (due at end of the week).
- Other activities, such as: Quizlet Live, listening and acting out the story, Agárralo (AKA The Marker Game), listen and draw, and listen and identify picture.
- Thursday:
- Work on Textivate Sequence (due at end of the week).
- Other activities, such as: Quizlet Live, listening and acting out the story, Agárralo (AKA The Marker Game), listen and draw, and listen and identify picture.
- Friday:
- Textivate Sequences are due.
- Quiz - usually cierto/falso about the story.