Dover Sherborn Middle School Curriculum Road Maps

Course Title: 7^th Grade Spanish Grade: 7

Unit: Chapter 9 – The Body & Health

Month Presented: November-January Unit Length (in weeks): 5 weeks

Essential Question (s):

- How do you feel? - ¿Cómo te sientes?

Learning Objectives:

-Describe how you are feeling.

-To tell a doctor what hurts and where.

-To ask someone how he/she is feeling and ask specific questions regarding his/her illness.

-To discuss healthy habits (eating, exercising) in target language.

-Compare health practices in the United States with health practices in Central America.

Skills:

-Identify parts of the body using the correct definite & indefinite article.

-To correctly use the verb “doler” with indirect object pronouns in both statements & questions.

-Using the expression “¿Cuánto tiempo hace que…?” to ask how long something has been hurting or for how long someone has been sick.

-“Tener” expressions – Tener frío, tener calor, etc…

-A few reflexive verbs – quedarse, lastimarse, sentirse

-Stem-changing verbs – o à ue – Emphasis on the verb dormir.

-Indirect Object Pronouns (me, te, le, nos, os, les)

-La sustantivación de adjetivos – Be able to say “The left one” instead of “The left arm” for example. Me duele el brazo izquierdo à Me duele el izquierdo.

-The expression Hace…que – to talk about how long something has been hurting/going on.

Instructional Strategies & Activities:

-Presentation of vocabulary – Students stand up and model what I do. We touch parts of our body and say the word in Spanish.

-Vocabulary Bingo

-Card game – 2 teams, each student has 4 words – 1^st person to shout out Spanish word gets a point for their team

-Language Lab activities. Repetition of Vocabulary. Voices are recorded and played back to students.

-Drawing activity. Students are giving a sentence in Spanish. They need to draw a picture that represents that sentence. Students pass pictures around and write sentences to describe the pictures. For example: A Juan le duelen las piernas.

-Use of pictures from website - http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/ to practice use of vocabulary. Examples of pictures:

-Students take notes on stem-changing verbs.

-Practice the verb dormir by interviewing classmates to see how long they sleep.

-Students perform skit in front of class. One plays the role of the doctor and one plays the role of the patient.

-Video & Audio activities that accompany textbook.

Materials Utilized:

-Overhead projector

-Language Lab Computers

-Videos

-Audio Tapes

-Bingo Cards

-Textbooks

-Workbooks

-Flashcards

-Pictures

-Whiteboard

-Power Point presentations

-Vocabulary Sheets

Assessment Strategies:

-Participation during class activities.

-Quizzes

-Unit Test

-Pronunciation Check-ins at language lab

-Homework completion & correction