Sub-topic 6: Nuestro pasatiempo familiar

Suggested Lexical Content:

Specific Learning Objectives

After completing this subtopic, the student will be able to:

1. Understand when someone speaks about their family’s recreational activities.
2. Understand simple dialogues related to family.
3. Hold simple family- related dialogues.
4. Talk about the family’s pastimes.
5. Understand simple and short family letters
6. Understand written dialogues related to the family.
7. Understand simple stories about the family’s pastimes.
8. Write simple and short family letters.
9. Write descriptive paragraphs about their family’s pastimes.
10. Write dialogues about the family and their hobbies.
11. Relate to past family events.
12. Understand past familiar events, as long as the speaker speaks at a slow pace.

Suggested Activities

Written Comprehension

Step 1

▪ The teacher will ask the students to state their family’s favorite hobby.

▪ Students will have the opportunity to state the answer in Spanish or English. 

▪ The teacher will present the Spanish vocabulary list on the board. Then, the teacher will elicit from the students the English translation of the vocabulary.

 

Oral and Written Comprehension

Step 2

▪ The students will participate in an interactive activity.

▪ The teacher will ask the students to form a circle in the middle of the classroom.

▪ The teacher will place several pictures of a family spending leisure time together in the center of the circle.

▪ Then, the teacher will put several flash cards or strips of paper containing the names of the various types of a family’s pastimes/recreational times inside a surprise box.

▪ Next, the teacher will give the surprise box to one of the students in the circle. The teacher will begin to say, “pasa la caja" or “play the music.”

▪ The student, who is holding the box, will pass it to the student on his right. The box will keep moving in the right direction until the teacher says, "pare" or suspend the music. The student will hold the box when the music stops. The teacher will then indicate when to take a strip of paper from the box. The student will read aloud the words written on the flash card/strip of paper.

▪ The students, who are standing on the left and right side of the reader, will immediately run to the center of the class to find the picture representing the words read. 

▪ The student who finds the picture that corresponds to the words read from the flash card/strip of paper will receive a prize (the prize, award, or privilege is left to the teacher’s discretion). 

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Written Comprehension

Step 3

▪ The teacher will request from the students to do Exercise # 56 of the workbook. In this exercise, the written comprehension skill will be developed. The exercise is divided into two sections: Instruction 1 consists of understanding a reading comprehension passage, and Instruction 2 consists of a comprehension exercise based on the reading comprehension passage. Detailed instructions are provided for the exercise.

 

Oral Comprehension

Step 4

▪ The teacher will give the students an audio. The audio will include five different family pastimes/recreational times of three distinct families. Using the audio, the students will complete Exercise # 57 of the workbook.

 

Oral Comprehension, Oral Expression, and Written Expression

Step 5

▪ In pairs, students should prepare a dialogue about their family pastimes/recreational times. Each pair will familiarize themselves with the dialogue. Then, each pair will be ready to do an oral presentation of their dialogue to the class. (Students should not use notes for the presentation.)

Oral Comprehension and Oral Expression

Step 6

▪ In groups of five, the students will have to prepare to present a role-play. The role-play will consist of a family, who are enjoying their family pastime/recreation time together. Each group will be held responsible for bringing necessary accessories/props for the presentation. 

▪  For instance:

If the family pastime is going to take place at the zoo, the students will need to pretend that they are preparing for the trip, traveling to their destination, arriving at the zoo, paying the entrance fee, going on tour to see the animals, enjoy talking about the place and their experience, etc.

Note: The students need to have a constant conversation/dialogue with each other to display family interaction during the family’s recreational time.

 

Written Expression

Step 7

▪ Each student will write a letter to a friend who lives in a foreign country. The letter needs to narrate in detail how each student spends time with his/her family. The teacher should establish the main points (criteria) that are needed to be inserted in the letter.

 Written Comprehension

Step 8

▪ The teacher will ask the students to do Exercise # 58 of the workbook. The exercise contains a reading passage for instruction 1 and a reading-based comprehension exercise for instruction 2. Detailed instructions are provided in the exercise.

 

Oral Comprehension

Step 9

▪ The teacher will give the students an audio. The audio will consist of a narration of someone’s past and present hobby.  After listening to the audio, the students will complete Exercise # 59 of the workbook. 

Oral Comprehension and Oral Expression

Step 10

▪ The teacher will request the students to prepare a presentation. The presentation will consist of a description of one’s favorite hobby they enjoyed in the past and present. If any student is unable to identify a hobby, he/she will need to use his/her imagination and creativity to make up the content for the presentation.

▪ Each student will present the information orally .

▪ After the presentation, the teacher will select two students from the class. One student will explain their family’s hobby carried out in the past and the other students will state their family’s hobby done presently.    

▪ The dynamic will continue until all students have participated in stating their family’s favorite hobbies of the past and present times.