Gina's Homework (Spanish lesson)
Language Objective:
Learn lexical to give a Spanish speech.
Content Objective:
Common words used in Spanish language.
Activity:
Day 1: Write a poem or speech to your family in your native language.
Day 2: Find out your 20 favorite words in it, and write the list in a notebook where you can stick some of your family photos.
Day 3: Find out which are the words in Spanish for those words, and make a similar list.
Day 4: Memorize them.
Day 5: Practice their pronunciation in Spanish using the links.
Day 6: Record yourself saying the words.
Day 7: Listen to the tape
Day 8: Make simple sentences in Spanish using those words to practice word order (link).
Day 9: Start making another speech but in Spanish.
Day10: Give me a copy of it, to give you feedback.
Links:
Pronunciation: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/spanish/frameset.html
Common words: http://www.spanishpronto.com/spanishpronto/spanishvocab.html
Word Order: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Spanish/Word_Order
On Line Dictionary: http://www.wordreference.com
