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Level 1 Beginner Spanish: Unit 1 My Family and Me

Overview
View the Video Introduction. These resources will help students in grades 1-2 to begin developing a comprehensive vocabulary in Spanish. Students will learn Spanish greetings, how to ask questions, times, seasons, months, holidays, body parts, colors, fruits and vegetables, and Spanish words for family members. Through speaking, reading, and writing activities, students will begin building the foundational vocabulary that will prepare them for success in middle school foreign language classes. These resources are available for parents to use with their children, for after school clubs and community organizations.
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Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
  • Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
  • Languages are built on basic rules that help people communicate with clear understanding.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.

  • Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?

  • Cultures - How can cultural awareness enhance my language learning and vice versa?  

  • Communities - How does where I live shape who I am?

  • Comparisons - How do I determine the most effective language learning style for me?

  • Connections - How might learning a language open “doors of opportunity”?

Lesson 1: Spanish Greetings
 Duration: @ 30 minutes
    
Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?
Assessment: 

Activities:
  1. Watch the Spanish Greetings Video (3:03) 
  2. Watch the Where Do You Live Video (3:03)
  3. Practice Hide and Seek with the vocabulary chart below. Click and drag your mouse over each square to see the matching English word for each Spanish word.

Vocabulary
hola
hello		 ¿Como estan?
How are all of you?		 bien
well		 mal
bad		 casa
 house		 ciudad
city
buenos dias
 good day		 ¿Como estas?
How are you?		 mas o menos
more or less		 mas o menos
more or less		 apartamentos
 apartment		 granja
farm

Resources:
Differentiation:
Extension -  Play the Greetings PowerPoint Review Game with a partner.

Lesson 2: My Family - Mi Familia
 Duration: @ 30 minutes
    
 Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?

Activities
  1. Watch the Family Members Video
  2. Practice Hide and Seek with the vocabulary chart below. Click and drag your mouse over each square to see the matching English word for each Spanish word.
People in a Family
 Personas en una Familia		 mother / mom
 madre / mamá		 father / dad
 padre / papá		 brother
 hermano		 sister
 hermana		 aunt
 tía		 uncle
 tío
grandmother
 abuela		 grandfather
 abuelo		 cousin
 primo		 niece
 sobrina		 nephew
 sobrino		 son
 hijo		 daughter
 hija

Differentiation
Extension:  Vocabulary Card Deck - People in the Family  Students can Play Go Fish with the deck of Family Member cards.
Support: Students can use the Vocabulary Card Deck - People in the Family as flash cards with students covering the English words for their partner.

Lesson 3: My Family Photo Album Match Game
 Duration: @ 30 minutes
    
 Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?
Assessment: 

Activities
  1. Find either family photos or a family photo album. Cut the Family Member Page into squares and place each square with the Spanish and English words by the correct family photo.
  2. Sit with a friend or someone in your family and practice telling him or her the Spanish word you have learned for each family member. Say the English and the Spanish words aloud. You have to tell your brain what new words you want it to learn. Point to each picture and say, "This is my mother. This is my madre." "This is my father. this is my padre." This is my grandmother. This is my abuela." etc.

Lesson 4: My Family Photo Album Match Game
 Duration: @ 30 minutes
    
 Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?
Assessment: 

Activities
  1. Use the family photo album and the word squares you made in the last lesson. Cut the Family Member Page into squares and place each square with the Spanish and English words by the correct family photo.
  2. Sit with a friend or someone in your family and practice telling him or her the Spanish word you have learned for each family member. Say the English and the Spanish words aloud. You have to tell your brain what new words you want it to learn. This time you will make a full Spanish sentence using the words, "Este es mi or this is my..." Point to each picture and say, "This is my mother. Este es mi madre." "This is my father. Este es mi padre." This is my grandmother. Este es mi abuela." etc.
  3. Practice removing the word squares from your photos or photo album and see how many family member names you can remember without seeing the word squares.

Differentiation
Extension:  Vocabulary Card Deck - People in the Family  Students can Play Go Fish with the deck of Family Member cards.
Support: Students can use the Vocabulary Card Deck - People in the Family as flash cards with students covering the English words for their partner.

Lesson 5: Memorizing Family Member Names
 Duration: @ 30 minutes
    
 Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?

Activities
  1. Use the family photo album and the word squares you made in the last lesson. Cut the Family Member Page into squares and place each square with the Spanish and English words by the correct family photo.
  2. Sit with a friend or someone in your family and practice telling him or her the Spanish word you have learned for each family member. Say the English and the Spanish words aloud. You have to tell your brain what new words you want it to learn. This time you will make a full Spanish sentence using the words, "Este es mi or this is my..." Point to each picture and say, "This is my mother. Este es mi madre." "This is my father. Este es mi padre." This is my grandmother. Este es mi abuela." etc.
  3. Practice removing the word squares from your photos or photo album and see how many family member names you can remember without seeing the word squares.
People in a Family mother / mom father / dad brother sister aunt uncle
Personas en una Familia madre / mamá padre / papá hermano hermana tía tío
grandmother grandfather cousin niece nephew son daughter
abuela abuelo primo sobrina sobrino hijo hija

Differentiation
Extension:  Vocabulary Card Deck - People in the Family  Students can Play Go Fish with the deck of Family Member cards.
Support: Students can use the Vocabulary Card Deck - People in the Family as flash cards with students covering the English words for their partner.

Lesson 6: Family Members Writing Beango
 Duration: 3 sessions @ 30 minutes each
    
 Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?
Assessment: 

Activities
  1. Write the vocabulary words for Family Members on your Beango Game card. Each square should have one Spanish word.
  2. Check the spelling of each word
  3. Family Member Beango Game using BeanGo Cards Small and BeanGo Cards Large - students can review Spanish and English vocabulary words or math families, or other basic content by completing their own bingo cards. Dried beans can be used as playing pieces. Use dried beans, pennies or other small objects as playing cards. Your parent, teacher or a friend will call out words from the Family Members Vocabulary list. If you have a matching word, say it, aloud then spell it. If you are correct,  place a bean or other object on the square. The winner will be the first player to win a row across, a column down or diagonal row.

Lesson 7-8: Family Members Practice Games
 Duration: 2 sessions @ 30 minutes each
    
 Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?
Assessment: 

Activities
  1. Family Members PowerPoint Review Game
  2. Family Members Puzzle Game
  3. People in the Family- use the Vocabulary Card Deck and play Go Fish with the deck of Family Member cards.
  4. People in the Family - use the Vocabulary Card Deck as flash cards with students covering the English words for a partner.  
  5. Family Member Beango Game using BeanGo Cards Small and BeanGo Cards Large - students can review Spanish and English vocabulary words or mat families, or other basic content by completing their own bingo cards. Dried beans can be used as playing pieces.
  6. Online Match Game

Lesson 9: Introduce Your Family
 Duration: @ 30 minutes
    
 Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?
Assessment: 

Activities
  1. Practice introducing all of your family members aloud in Spanish. First, use a greeting you have learned,  introduce yourself, then your other family members. Your introductions may sound something like this:
     
    Hola, buenos dias.
    Mi nombre es _______.
    Este es mi madre, ________.
    Este es mi padre, ________.

Lesson 10: Test on Family Members
 Duration: @ 30 minutes each
    
 Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?
Assessment:  Meet My Family Quizlet

Activities
  1. Practice for the test on the first 10 lessons by going to the Meet My Family Quizlet. First, select Familiarize, and practice saying the words as you see them on the screen.
  2. Go to the Meet My Family Quizlet and practice writing the English word for each Spanish word.
  3. Now, go to Meet My Family Quizlet and play either Space Race or Scatter until you feel that you are ready to take the test.
  4. Finally, take the online test on the Meet My Family Quizlet. E-mail your score to your teacher. You can take the test as many times as you want to to keep improving your score. We want you to be very successful. When you finish, you will have learned the most important first set of vocabulary words. You will use these words many times as you speak Spanish with others.

Differentiation
Extension: The Quizlet keeps track, not only of correct responses, but also of time. See if you can beat the record for timed responses.  
Support: If spelling is too difficult for the student, verbal responses are acceptable. To continue with the test, a teacher or parent will need to type the word into the Quizlet.

Lesson 11: Where do you Live? Donde Vives?
Duration: @ 30 minutes

Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?

Activities
  1. Watch the Donde Vives Video
  2. Family of Tigers Hide and Seek
  3. Goldilocks and Three Bears in Spanish

Differentiation
Extension: 
Support:

Lesson 12: This Is My House
Duration: @ 30 minutes

Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?
Assessment: Practice test in Quizlet

Activities
  1. Learn the name for the rooms in your house by printing the Rooms In My House Drawing, then check your answers with the answer sheet.  Practice the words below for Rooms in the House.
  2. Make Vocabulary Cards for each of the following twelve sets of words. Tape them to the walls or doors in you house while you learn these words.
hall the kitchen dining room bathroom attic bedroom
el pasillo la cocina el comedor el baño el desván la recámara
 stairs study los muebles living room  basement balcony
las escaleras el estudio furniture la sala el sótano el balcon
  1. Go to Quizlet and practice recognizing the Rooms in the House vocabulary words. Try all parts of Quizlet including the game.
 Things Found in a House chair window lamp door couch / sofa ceiling 
Cosas Que se Encuentran en Casa la silla la ventana  la lámpara la puerta el sofá el techo
 stereo  desk furniture ceiling fan  TV walls floor
el estéreo el escritorio los muebles el abanico del techo la televisíon las paredes el piso

Differentiation
Extension: Play the Scholastic Spanish and English Cycle Race
Support: Verbal responses are acceptable if students have difficulty with the writing requirement.

Lesson 13: Things in My House Relay 
Duration: @ 30 minutes

Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?
Assessment: 

Activities
  1. Rooms in my house relay
  2. Where would I find........?

Resources 

Differentiation
Extension: 
Support

Lesson 14-16:  Things In My House Review Games
Duration: @ 30 minutes

Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?
Assessment: 

Activities
  1. Things in the House PowerPoint Review Game
  2. Things in the House Puzzle Game
  3. Things in the House Bingo Game
  4. Things in the House - use the Vocabulary Card Deck and play Go Fish with the deck of Rooms in the House cards.
  5. Things in the House - use the Vocabulary Card Deck as flash cards with students covering the English words for a partner.

Differentiation
Extension: 
Support

Lesson 17: Writing About My House
Duration: @ 30 minutes

Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?
Assessment: 

Activities
  1.  Bring a picture of your house. Use the list of vocabulary words and write sentences about your house. From the list, use as many Spanish words as you can. Use English words. 

Resources
Differentiation
Extension: 
Support:

Lesson 18: Test on My House
Duration: @ 30 minutes

Standard 1:  Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
District Indicator:  Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Enduring Understanding:  Developing knowledge and skills in a second language helps us better understand different cultures.
Essential Questions:  Communication - How will learning a language enhance my life?
Assessment: 

Activities
  1. Use the My House Quizlet to practice for your final test on the rooms of a house. First Click on Familiarize and name the English word that matches the Spanish word.
  2. Now use the My House Quizlet to practice by using the Learn link.
  3. Practice for the test by clicking on the My House Quizlet button for Play Scatter and play the Space Race.

Differentiation:
Extension: 
Support: for students that are not able to type the words, a parent can read the words and ask the child to say the matching word for the parent to type.

Foreign Language Standards - Beginning Level
STANDARD I
Students comprehend the foreign language through listening to a variety of sources.
Benchmark A: Students obtain meaning from diverse listening sources.
Recognize memorized common expressions.
Demonstrate an understanding of vocabulary in context in simple survival situations.
Recognize cultural cues.
Recognize different intonation and stress.
Benchmark B: Students demonstrate comprehension of diverse auditory prompts.
Write appropriate responses.
Recall suitable rejoinders.
Respond kinesthetically.

STANDARD 2
Students speak in the foreign language for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Benchmark A: Students communicate in the foreign language in a variety of situations.
Express personal responses to oral, written, or visual prompts in predictable, familiar structures.
Report personal narrative accounts.
Report factual information gathered from a variety of sources in familiar, predictable situations.
Describe, using level-appropriate vocabulary.
List and recall.
Express personal opinions, likes, and dislikes on familiar topics with learned phrases.
Imitate and incorporate culturally appropriate non-verbal behaviors in familiar speaking situations.
Imitate appropriate social register.
Benchmark B: Students speak using a level-appropriate vocabulary, grammar, usage, and sentence structure.
Use basic pronunciation and intonation patterns.
Demonstrate some accuracy in oral situations when reproducing memorized words, phrases, and sentences.

STANDARD 3
Students read and derive meaning from a variety of materials written in a foreign language.
Benchmark A: Students use comprehension skills to understand text.
Employ word recognition skills, reading strategies, and resources to decode.
Increase vocabulary to ensure understanding.
Infer meaning of unfamiliar words in familiar situations.
Benchmark B: Students use information gained from reading.
Create a product.
Anticipate the outcome of highly predictable text.
Make interdisciplinary connections from the ideas presented in the text.

STANDARD 4
Students write in the foreign language for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Benchmark A: Students use a variety of modes.
Write personal responses to oral, written, or visual prompts, using familiar, memorized vocabulary.
Write to provide and/or obtain information in familiar, predictable situations.
Report factual information gathered from familiar sources to predictable settings.
Benchmark B: Students use a process approach to written communications.
Identify purpose and audience.
Use a variety of planning strategies.
Revise content through multiple drafts.
Self- and peer-edit.
Create a final product.
Benchmark C. Students write using level-appropriate vocabulary, grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Use correct grammar.
Reproduce correct register-level usage.
Reproduce a variety of sentence types and structures.
Reproduce correct punctuation and capitalization.

STANDARD 5
Students acquire and use knowledge of culture while developing foreign language skills.
Benchmark A: Students use the foreign language and culturally appropriate behavior patterns to convey meaning.
Identify everyday cultural characteristics.
Identify culturally appropriate gestures and expressions in personal interaction.
Recognize components of the foreign cultures’ social patterns.
Benchmark B: Students access cultural information available only in the target language.
Use foreign information via technology.
Use library materials in foreign language (e.g. periodicals, literature, reference, tapes, videos, etc.)
Identify signs and symbols in foreign cultures.
Benchmark C. Students analyze social, political, economic, and/or historical aspects of the foreign cultures.
Identify similarities and differences among cultures.
Identify geographical locations relevant to the language.

Decks of Vocabulary Cards - includes playing cards for each of Vocabulary Card Lessons 1-60. (Used in Grades 1-2)

Common Phrases (1-2) Days and Holidays (1-2) Numbers 1 - 13 (1-2)  
Asking Questions (1-2) Colors (1-2) Body Parts (1-2) Months of the Year (1-2)
Time and Seasons (1-2) Refrigerated Food (1-2) Human Face (1-2)  

Computer Review Games - includes vocabulary review games that can be played alone or with a partner.

Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4 Unit 5 Unit 6
Unit 7 Unit 8 Unit 9 Unit 10 Unit 11 Unit 12

Parents

Benefits of Knowing a Second Language
Colorado children need second language fluency in order to be competitive in the 21st century.  Students of foreign language score statistically higher on standardized tests conducted in English.  Students who average 4 or more years of foreign language study scored higher on the verbal section of the SAT than those who had studied 4 or more years on any other subject area. (1992 report consistent with College Board profiles of previous years.)  Students of foreign languages have access to great number of career possibilities and develop a deeper understanding of their own language and other cultures.  Children who receive second language instruction are more creative and better at solving complex problems.  Coloradans fluent in other languages enhance U.S. economic competitiveness abroad, improve global communication, and maintain national, political and security interest.

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