Present+Perfect+and+Future

In my Spanish 5-6 (Level 3) we were learning to use the present perfect and the future. I found some pictures of Detroit from the 20's - 60's and some pictures from right now in Detroit. I picked specific places, like campus Martius, and had the students compare the pictures. They use the present perfect to talk about how Detroit has changed and they used the future to talk about how we could make it better in the future. Our unit had to do with advances in technology and the environment.

In the activity I set up four different stations with multiple pictures of the same place. The students worked in groups of four and wrote down the changes that they saw from the pictures. They also talked about it with each other. The next day we worked on the overhead to compile a list of what they had wrote down. We also talked about the advantages and disadvantages of the changes they had seen in the pictures. After all of this, we made a plan of things we would do in the future to make the city even better than it is now. They really liked it I think because the majority of them are from Detroit.

Here are some links for examples of pictures... http://info.detnews.com/dn/history/martius/images/2.jpg - old http://www.theworldiscoming.com/images/gitg.campusmartiuslights.jpg - now