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Language: Spanish Level: 2 Textbook: ¡Ven conmingo! Time Period: Month of May

Unit Title: Where in the world would you go?

Topic: Vacations Essential Question: I have decided to have an essential question for the entire semester and then hypothetically break it down into 2 different "mini-questions" for each cardmarking. My over-arching essential question is "How does one go about defining himself/herself?" Part one of that would be "What does s/he do with his/her time and money?" (The direct question corresponding to my topic) and part two would be "With whom does s/he choose to do it?

Unit Rationale: I have decided to do my unit on vacations because I feel that, in this topic, there is something for everyone. Especially with the frequency of study abroad today, students really should get to know about the cultures and places of the language that they are studying. Moreover, vacation vocabulary and expressions are far more common in day-to-day speech than the vocabulary and expressions of, say, wildlife. Plus, I believe that there are so many different activities that students can do related to vacations.

I decided to create my essential question based on "defining oneself" for many reasons. The first, and most important, reason is that the students that we are teaching are at a point in their lives in which they are trying to figure out who they are and what they believe in. This over-arching question can touch on so many different aspects of self-definition that at least one has to capture the interest of every student.

Goals for the vacations unit: 1) Students will master the vocabulary related to vacations, travel and tourism in foreign countries. 2) Students will feel comfortable having conversations in the target language related to trip planning, traveling around the countries and telling stories of their travels. 3) Students will be introduced to the future tense using ir + a + infinitive. 4) Students will have a better grasp of the past-tense and how to distinguish the use between preterite and imperfect.

National standards (or the 5 C's) Communication: Students will participate in dialogs in multiple scenarios including, but not limited to, making reservations, interacting with the locals and telling stories of thier travels Cultures: Students will learn more about the cultures of the countries to which they are traveling. Connections: Students will make connections among the different Hispanic countries and their customs in dealing with travels Comparisons: Students will compare US travel to travel in and to other countries Communities: Students will learn how communities interact with each other and with foreigners in other countries

Assumed prior knowledge of students: It is assumed that students have previously been introduced to the preterite and imperfect tenses. By covering these topics again, I plan on reviewing briefly the conjugation, but spending most of the time on the differences between the two tenses.

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 * Means of travel
 * In the airport
 * Around town

Grammar:
 * Preterite v. Imperfect
 * Conditional
 * Ir + a + infinitve future tense

Other:
 * Polite phone etiquette

Major tasks: ~ booking a vacation (proper phone etiquette) ~ choose someone and tell them all about your trip
 * Skits
 * Create a pamphlet about the place to which you travel OR create a scrapbook of your trip.

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