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Level 1 Beginner Spanish: Unit 2 My Body and Numbers

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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Daily Lessons  1 - 5  6 - 10 11 - 12 13 - 17 18 - 20

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”?


Lessons 1 - 5: My Head and My Face -  Mi Cabeza y Mi Cara  
Duration: 5 sessions @ 20 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?

Activities

  1. Watch the Video Lesson (body, head, hair, eyes, nose, mouth)
  2. Practice listening, saying and identifying parts of the face in the Parts of the Face Simulation or Your Face in Spanish.
  3. Build a Baby's Face -click and drag the parts of the face to the right location on the baby's face. Say each part of the face aloud when you place it correctly.
  4. Play the Body Parts Match Game.
  5. Print Label the Parts of the Face. Write the correct Spanish word on each line. Then check your answers.
  6. Add the 14 Spanish and English words below to your vocabulary notebook. Pronounce each word aloud while you write them in your notebook.
  7. Use the Virtual Mr. Potato Head to build your own Mr. Potato Head by adding parts of the face. Practice your Spanish by saying aloud each part as you add it to your potato. Print your final Mr. Potato head and teach a friend the parts of the face in Spanish saying, "This is Mr. Potato Head. This is his nose. These are his eyes. etc." "Este es Senior Potato Head. Este es su nariz, este estan su ojos, etc." You can also Build Mr. Lemon. Mrs. Pepper or Miss Onion. You can also bring your potato head picture to class to share and and help your classmates review the parts of the face.
  8. Take a Quick Quiz to see how well you are learning the parts of the face. Try it several times and see if you can improve your speed.
ears eyes chin cheeks face forehead neck
las orejas los ojos la barbilla las mejillas la cara la frente el cuello

 

mouth mustache teeth nose head hair skin
la boca el bigote los dientes la nariz la cabeza el pelo el cuerpo

Differentiation
Extension - Students can Play Go Fish with the deck of Body Parts cards.
Support - Students can use the Vocabulary Card Deck - Body Parts (as flash cards with students covering the English words for their partner.


Lessons 6 - 10: Parts of The Body  
Duration: 5 sessions @ 20 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:
printed score from the Quick Quiz

Activities

  1. Watch the Video Lesson (arms, legs, hands and feet)
  2. Play the Body Parts Match Game
  3. Body tracing - lay on a piece of paper and have someone draw around you or draw a picture of yourself. Label the parts of your body that you have learned in these lessons. Keep the drawing in your Spanish notebook. When we learn colors you can add those vocabulary words to the color clothes you are wearing in your picture. You can also bring your picture to class to share and and help your classmates review the parts of the body.
  4. Add the 14 Spanish and English words below to your vocabulary notebook. Pronounce each word aloud while you write them in your notebook.
  5. Practice matching the body parts in the Body Parts Simulation.
  6. Play "Where is your... or Donde esta tu.....?" This interactive game uses the parts of the body in Spanish sentences. See how many you can get correct.
  7. Take a Quick Quiz to see how well you are learning the parts of the body.
arms legs hands feet stomach / abdomen  knees elbow
las brazos las piernas las manos los pies el estomago / el abdomen el rodilla el codo

 

 chest heart shoulder  finger  skin back  wrist
el pecho el corazon  el hombro  el dedo la piel  la espalda  la muneca

Differentiation
Extension - Play the Body Parts Match Game. Students can Play Go Fish with the deck of Body Parts cards.
Support - Students can use the Vocabulary Card Deck - Body Parts (as flash cards with students covering the English words for their partner.


Lesson 11 - 12: Morning Routines
Duration: 2 sessions @ 20 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?

Activities

  1. Watch the Video Lesson (face, hands, and morning routines)
  2. Video Lesson (body parts review: Simon Says Game)
  3. Body Parts Review  and Body Parts Review Video

Differentiation
Extension - Play the Body Parts Match Game. Students can Play Go Fish with the deck of Body Parts cards.
Support - Students can use the Vocabulary Card Deck - Body Parts (as flash cards with students covering the English words for their partner.


Lessons 13 - 17: Numbers 1-20
Duration: 5 sessions @ 20 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: Quiz on Spanish Math Vocabulary

Activities

 1 one 2 two  3 three 4 four 5 five
 uno  dos  tres  cuatro cinco
 6 six 7 seven 8 eight 9 nine 10 ten
seis siete ocho nueve diez
11 eleven 12 twelve 13 thirteen 14 fourteen 15 fifteen
once doce trece catorce quince
16 sixteen 17 seventeen 18 eighteen 19 nineteen 20 twenty
diez y seis diez y siete diez y ocho diez y nueve veinte
  1. Print a copy of Numbers 1-20. Add the print out to your Spanish notebook.
  2. Listen to the Spanish pronunciation for Numbers 11-20.
  3. Play the Review Game for Numbers 1-20. Say the number names along with the audio. Another source of practice is Fun With Spanish Numbers.
  4. Hear the Spanish words for 1-20 as you play Connect the Dots. You'll see the flag of another spanish-speaking country, Costa Rico.
  5. Play Como Se Dice? with one or more friends or classmates. To play, use a printed copy of the Numbers 1-20 Word Chart. Say "Como se dice four in Espanol? "How do you say four in Spanish?" If the player answers correctly, cuatro, he or she stays in the game to play the next time it is his or her turn. The goal of the game is to see who can stay in the game without being eliminated. It may take several games to get all of the words correct. This is a great game to play while you are riding in the car with a parent. Another way to practice it to play a Counting Game. The first player starts by saying uno, the next player says dos, and play continues until one player can't name the next number. See how fast you can finish a game after you have learned all 20 number words.
  6. Numbers 1 - 13  Deck of Cards - can be printed and used to play Old Maid, Go Fish or any other card came.
  7. Practice Spelling the Spanish words using the Spell Checker.
  8. When you are sure you know how to spell all of the Spanish numbers uno - diez, you will take a quiz. You will first be asked to enter our name then the hour of your class. For the hour, enter 1. Take the Quiz on Spanish Math Vocabulary. Print a copy of your final score. Share it with your parents and teacher.

Differentiation
Extension -  Can you count backwards from 20 to 1 in Spanish? Use the Rocket Countdown Connect the Dots to practice counting backwards.
Support -  An alternate test could be verbally counting from one to twenty in Spanish.


Lessons 18 - 22: Numbers 21-100
Duration: 5 sessions @ 20 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?

Activities

  1. Now that you know how to write and say the numbers 1-20, we can learn numbers for 21 - 100. If you Listen to the Introduction Audio Game for numbers 21 - 40.  Practice repeating the words until you fell that you can count from 21 - 40 without mistakes.
  2. Use the Review Game  to practice saying the numbers 41-60.
  3. Practice learning numbers with the Electronic Flash Cards or use the Number Word List as a guide and make your own set of flash cards for the numbers 41-60. On one side of the card write the number and write the word on the other side.
  4. Play the Number Concentration or the Number Matching Game for practice. Remember to say the words aloud while you play.

Differentiation
Extension - Do  you think you can correctly spell all of the numbers 21-40 in Spanish? Use the Spelling Game Quiz and practice your spelling.
Support - 
An alternate test could be verbally counting from 20 - 100 in Spanish.


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) People in the Family (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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