Personal+Ads

 Have students look at personal ads in the TL and pick out a few people the would date, and a few they wouldn’t, and explain their reasoning. They can do this even at the beginning of the year, as soon as they learn to describe what people look like and what they like to do. A lot of the professions are cognates too, so that helps- you could also give a list of useful vocab. (like “looking for” or anything else that comes up often.) Then, have students write their own personal ad including their name, age, address, e-mail, if they’re single or not, their profession, and a short message describing what they look like, what they like to do, what they’re looking for (friendship, a boyfriend, a Spanish tutor, etc.) I subscribed to Cosmo en español for a year, so I used their “Punto de Encuentro.” If you don’t have a magazine with something like that in it, try looking online ([|http://www.teamo.com/amor/index.htm)], and make up a worksheet of your own, but with real information so it’s appropriate, but students feel so much better about it when they know it’s authentic text and they can navigate it after only a few weeks of Spanish class!
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