11EPISODE: Travelling Abroad
LANGUAGE: Spanish Math
TITLE: Lets take a trip around the world
ADAPTATION: By means of a floor map with South America depicted
on it, the students will have a budget in which they can travel to different
countries. They will need to label and name the capitals of the countries
they wish to fly to and budget their travel, as the flights will vary in
cost from country to country.
EXTENSION: The use of currency exchange through the means
of dialogue and a math conversion table.
RATIONALE: The students will not only learn the geographical
location of the countries and capitals,
but will also learn the value of each nation's monetary system.
Language and Children Making the Match, p. 242.
CORRELATION: This activity will expand cultural awareness
of the countries' locations making travel arrangements not only informative,
but meaningful.
12EPISODE: Seeing/going to Soccer Matches in Spain
LANGUAGE: Spanish Physical Education
TITLE: World Cup '82
ADAPTATION: You're going back in time...you arrive in Spain
for the Soccer matches. Through the use of language-experience activity,
the students will write a dialogue explaining how they will buy tickets.
EXTENSION: The students can study the different geographical locations
of the venues where the matches will take place.
RATIONALE: Dialogues are of value in the elementary school
because they provide a structure for a series of utterances that combine
to develop a meaningful idea.
CORRELATION: The use of dialogues in the context can provide an
infinite amount of cultural knowledge.
13EPISODE: Trip to the jungle (role play)
LANGUAGE: Spanish - Science
TITLE: Welcome to the Jungle
ADAPTATION: Students play the role of various animals that
inhabit the rain forest. Through the use of
pictures and labels, the students identify their appropriate habitat
and feeding habits.
EXTENSION: Create a schematic web consistent with their animal
identify and living condition.
RATIONALE: Through the use of role playing, students expand
their cultural awareness of indigenous life forms that inhabit the
jungle. Language and Children Making the Match, p. 124.
CORRELATION: Role playing uses imagination to create a culturally
embedded base of information
making the task informative and meaningful.
14EPISODE: Going shopping in Mexico
LANGUAGE: Spanish - Civics
TITLE: Let's go to the market
ADAPTATION: Using role play, students go shopping in a market
in Mexico to buy various items.
What would you find there? The introduction of new vocabulary
through dialogue.
EXTENSION: Role playing can be used to simulate buying tickets,
going to a movie or travelling.
RATIONALE: Role play moves a step beyond the dialogue and
places students in a situation in which they are called on to cope with
the unexpected, using the materials they have memorized through dialogues
and other classroom activities. Language and Children Making the
Match, p. 124.
CORRELATION: Role playing uses imagination to prepare for
real life situations making the learning
process contextually meaningful. Language and Children Making
the Match, p. 124.
15EPISODE: Las vacaciones
LANGUAGE: Spanish Topography
TITLE: Land Forms
ADAPTATION: The use of language-experience
approach with small
group or pair work Have students
pick a Latin American country where they would like to vacation,
give them a jigsaw puzzle with different
land forms so, once completed, they can write and talk about it.
EXTENSION: They can exchange puzzles and expand on the different
forms.
RATIONALE: Through the language-experience approach, you incorporate
all of the communication skills
of speaking, listening, writing and reading. The cooperative
pair work also enhances self-esteem and other affective areas of development.
Language and Children Making the Match, p. 124/139.
CORRELATION: Activities in small group or pair work enhance
cooperative learning; set in the proper context the cultural aspect is
tied in to the activity.
16EPISODE: Attending an art show
LANGUAGE: Spanish Art Colors
ADAPTATION: Through the use of thematic webbing, you can incorporate
colors into the vocabulary Through the use of audio-visual equipment,
you can present colorful paintings by Latin American artists Through repeated
depictions of the same color through out various slides, a thematic web
is created.
EXTENSION: Many concepts can be exposed through the use of audio-visual
equipment Geographical scenes can be labeled; for example, mountains,
deserts, jungles and so forth.
RATIONALE: Concepts can be reinforced by the use of thematic webbing.
The theme or objective is reinforced upon repetition throughout various
topics Language and Children Making the Match, p. 105.
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CORRELATION: The use thematic webbing is an effective form
of effective
modeling and repetition which emphasizes the concepts being learned.
17LANGUAGE: Spanish Literature
TITLE: Cinderella in Spain
ADAPTATION: Act out and tell a story
the students are already familiar with Repeat the story having students
act out the scenes in a different cultural setting.
EXTENSION: Through the use of story telling, you can introduce other
approaches; i.e., backward build-up and dialogue.
RATIONALE: Story telling using familiar stories reinforces vocabulary.
Language and Children Making the Match, p. 130/131.
CORRELATION: Story telling relies on comprehension and listening
skills, not oral skills Story telling enables the instructor to begin
a common contextual setting and work from there.
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