Dover Sherborn Middle School Curriculum Road Maps

 

 

Course Title:                 Spanish 8                                                         Grade:              8         

 

Unit:                 Paso a Paso 2 – Chapter 4 – Having fun                                  

Month Presented:                     January - February         Unit Length (in weeks):           6-8      

 

Essential Question (s):

 

  • ¿Cómo te diviertes? – How do you have fun?

 

Learning Objectives:

 

  • Talk about past and present activities
  • Extend, accept, or reject an invitation
  • Discuss and evaluate a lesiure-time activity

 

Skills:

 

  • Use sports-related vocabulary to talk about what we need to play certain sports.
  • Use the verbs prestar (to lend) and pedir prestado (to borrow) in conversation.
  • Extra-curricular related vocabulary is used to talk about one’s interests and what one does not like.
  • Use the preterite tense of the verb “ser” to talk about what people or things were in the past.
  • Use the preterite tense of the verbs hacer, poder y tener with the above mentioned vocabulary to talk about playing sports or participating in activities in the past.

 

Instructional Strategies & Activities:

 

  • Vocabulary Bingo
  • Card Game
  • Power Point presentation
  • Language Lab activities
  • Listening activities
  • Video activities
  • Activities on www.quia.com
  • Paired discussions on extra-curricular activities.
  • Teacher led discussions on sports and clubs.

 

Materials Utilized:

 

  • Textbook
  • Workbook
  • Teacher-made worksheets
  • Language Lab
  • Audio tapes
  • Video tapes
  • Computers
  • Power-Point

 

Assessment Strategies:

 

  • Quizzes
  • Unit test
  • Classroom Participation
  • Homework completion
  • Language lab “check-ins”
  • Cooperation during group/paired work.