Greetingsandintros

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Asking/ Telling Age


 * ¿Cómo te llamas? Me llamo...** (Spanish 1)

I use this activity at the beginning of the year with my 4th-6th graders who have very little experience with Spanish. I teach four classes in each grade, so rather than make individual copies, I put mine in page protectors and reuse them for each class.

Make a class set of the attached worksheet. Put one copy in each page protector along with a colored piece of paper. I use red in half and blue in the other half. Pass out the worksheets and dry erase markers. (Optional: Give markers to only the students with a particular color of worksheet.)

Instructions (included on the worksheet in Spanish): 1. Stand up. 2. Form groups of two - 1 red, 1 blue. 3. The person with the red paper asks, "¿Cómo te llamas?" 4. Blue responds, "Me llamo... ¿Cómo te llamas?" 5. Red responds, "Me llamo..." 6. Write the name of your partner on your worksheet.

Optional: After going over the instructions, have students repeat the phrases "¿Cómo te llamas?" and "me llamo." Students sit down when they've gotten the names of five partners. The teacher then asks random students to stand and perform the "skit" for the class.

I've had a lot of success with this activity. My students had had very little practice with this kind of independent practice when we did this activity and it went great in all twelve of my 4th-6th grade classes. user:eddingtona


 * Como te llamas, como estas, y de donde eres?** (Spanish 1)

Students should work in groups of no more than 4.Each student gets a card with a country name and capital - each card in a different color (red, blue, green, orange, etc.)Pass students the activity worksheet - depending on the skill and amount of scaffolding students have, you can change or leave out the detailed example.Also provide students with blank maps of the Spanish speaking world - this can be done as a review once the countries have already been introduced.As students greet each other and find out "where" they are from, they should color in the appropriate country on the blank map.Students should check in the box to indicate how someone is feeling - bien, mal, asi asi

Buena Suerte user:SarahPcat

Similar activity: Practicing colors using flags

Greetings Coop Activity - user:chericem1

- By Veronica Quintero

For use with this video: [|Greetings & Saying Goodbye] media type="youtube" key="rLnudV15qBk" width="560" height="315"

[|Greetings] - A list of ideas for teaching greetings user:chericem1

Greetings & Intros Paired Activity user:SarahPcat

Greetings Warm-up - ||
 * Tu vs. Usted ||

- A series of videos of native speakers of Spanish introducing themselves

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