We all have those days. Homecoming days when there are only morning classes since the afternoons are dedicated to activities. Days at the end of the semester when you don’t want to start something totally new. Late start days when classes are cut short of minutes. Days when we just need a break to recharge. Today was one of those days for me.
Today a science field trip left me with half filled classes throughout my day. I didn’t really have enough students remaining in class to move forward, so I was left with the question...what do we do today? And better yet, what do we do today with minimal prep? Thank goodness for Zach Jones and the amazing resources he has on his website, zambombazo. (side note: If you are not yet familiar with the site, it is filled with incredible, FREE activities. I would, in fact, encourage you to stop reading this blog and visit the site - it is that awesome and worth your time.) At any rate, with the students I had in class today, the plan was to do a stand alone lesson but yet engaging and CI worthy. I chose to base the lesson plan today around the one of the students favorite talking points: movies We began class with some general PQA about what movies they liked to watch, who they went to the movies with, which movie theaters they preferred, etc Students then paired up and completed a pelipareja activity from zambombazo. Pelipareja is an activity where students match a brief description of a movie to its poster. After most pairs had finished the work, we shared the answers to make sure everyone was on the same page Next, I asked students to choose one of the descriptions and work with their partner to translate it to English. This was a great activity to see how students were able to identify cognates and unknown words through context. My Spanish I students were able to translate a description of their choice without any problems To extend this further and get more reading practice, I asked each pair to identify two words they did not know the meaning of, but were able to figure out through context. They could choose the words from any of the descriptions other than the one they chose to translate. Students shared the words they learned from context while I wrote them on the board and personalized each one through personalized question and answer (PQA) With the minutes we had remaining, we played strip bingo with the words identified by the students. Overall, a pretty successful CI lesson plan with minimal prep. My favorite kind of lesson plan for “one of those days.”
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