Lesson Plans 
 

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

Lección 10 - Lengua: Quarter System
(12 days, including 1 for testing. Each class = 50 minutes.)

Day 8

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Have students work in small groups to write a short story. The story must use the future perfect, the conditional perfect, the past subjunctive, si clauses with compound tenses, and at least two different ways of saying to become. Have each group read its story to the class, and the class will select the most humorous, the most inventive, the most surrealist, etc.
  2. Check comprehension of the Actualidades reading by asking students about Buñuel, Dalí, and Lorca.
  3. Put students in pairs to discuss the Actualidades Después de leer questions. Ask each pair to summarize its discussion for the class.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Prepare steps A–D of Manos a la obra for use in class on Day 12.
  2. Study the Vocabulario.
  3. Write a paragraph describing one of the situations depicted in Práctica y Comunicación activity 3 for Estructura 10.4. Describe what happened before the event in the illustration and what would have happened if certain events had been different.
  4. Actualidades refers to movies as the Seventh Art. What do you think the first six arts are? TV has been called the Eighth Art, and comic books the Ninth Art. What do you think the Tenth Art will be? Prepare your answers in writing.
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE OPTIONS

  1. Prepare the Escritura section on the VENTANAS CD-ROM.