Lesson Plans 
 

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

Lección 2: 3-Quarter System
(11 days, including 1 for testing. Each class = 50 minutes.)

Day 9

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Direct students’ attention to Sobre el autor (p. 76). Ask them how they think Benedetti’s life experience is reflected in Idilio.
  2. Have students summarize the story after lines 5, 10, 15, and 24 (pp. 76–77).
  3. Ask students to discuss what they think is the moral lesson of the story (Análisis literario, p. 75) and Benedetti’s purpose in writing the story (Estrategia de lectura, p. 75).
  4. Put students in pairs and have them find all the reflexive and direct object pronouns in Idilio (pp. 76–77), as suggested in the annotation in the IAE, p. 76.
  5. Work through Después de leer activities 1 and 2 for Idilio (p. 78) with the class. Put students in groups of three and have them peer correct each other’s paragraphs for activity 4 (p. 78). As a class, discuss television’s effects on viewers and the implications of those effects.
  6. Put students in pairs and have them work through Después de leer activity 3 for Idilio (p. 78).
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Read Antes de leer and study the Vocabulario for Perfil: Shakira (p. 79).
  2. Read Perfil: Shakira (pp. 80–81) and prepare the Después de leer activities (p. 82) for the next class.
  3. Continue preparing the Lecturas activity from the ENFOQUES web site to be submitted electronically before class on Day 11.
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE OPTIONS
  1. Do the corresponding exercises for Estructura 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 on the ENFOQUES CD-ROM.
  2. Take the Quiz on the ENFOQUES CD-ROM and review any problem areas.