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Lección 17
(8 days, including test given on eighth day)


Day 1

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Warm up by chatting with the class using previously learned vocabulary, phrases, and structures.
  2. Briefly go over the Lección 17 Communicative Goals. To orient your students to the lesson theme, have them explain what's going on in the lesson opener photograph.
  3. Present the illustrated Contextos vocabulary using the corresponding transparency. You should also point out to students the vocabulary contained in the Más vocabulario box and in the El cine y la televisión box. In addition, you may want to point out and discuss the information contained in the Variación léxica box.
  4. Using the Textbook Activities CDs, work through Práctica Activity 1 with the class. Then have your class work through your choice of the remaining Práctica activities.
  5. Have your students work through your choice of the Comunicación activities. Comunicación Activity 7 is an information gap activity; see the Information Gap Activities Booklet for materials.
  6. Preview the Fotonovela.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Have your students read the Fotonovela and familiarize themselves with the Expresiones útiles.
  2. Have your students prepare one or more of the Reacciona a la fotonovela activities so that you can go over them orally during the next class session.
  3. As an ongoing project, have your students read this lesson's two Panorama sections as they work through the lesson. Tell them that on Day 7 you will ask them the questions contained in the ¿Qué aprendiste? activities, as well as additional questions about the material presented in the two Panorama sections.
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE OPTIONS
  1. Have students complete the activities in their Workbook/Video Manual, Lab Manual, and on the Interactive CD-ROM as they are referenced in the Recursos boxes of the student text. Advise them that they will be responsible for turning the written activities in on the last day, before the test. For today, they should be completing the Contextos activities in those ancillaries.
  2. Have students complete the Exploración activity on the companion website.