Lesson Plans 
 

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Lección 1 - Lengua: Quarter System
(12 days, including 1 for testing. Each class = 50 minutes.)

Day 7

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Review Estructura 1.4 (pp. 26–27) by asking students to explain the different uses of ser and estar.
  2. Collect students’ written paragraphs describing the meeting of the personalities depicted in Comunicación exercise 3 for Estructura 1.4 (p. 29) and correct them while students work in pairs.
  3. Have students do the Comunicación activity for Estructura 1.4 (p. 29) in pairs and then have each pair present its interview to the whole class.
  4. Debrief A conversar by having the groups report their results to the whole class (step C, p. 30).
  5. Preview Actualidades (pp. 32–33), going over Antes de leer (p. 32) and starting to have students read the comic strip aloud in class.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Read Actualidades (pp. 32–33) and be prepared to answer #1 of Después de leer (p. 33).
  2. Go to the VENTANAS web site, prepare the Actualidades activity, and submit it electronically before the next class.
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE OPTIONS
  1. Prepare the Composición section in the workbook section of the Student Activities Manual and do the corresponding activities.