Warm+Up+Activity+with+Menu



This is a copy of a menu from Dominoes Pizza in Austin, MN. I used it to work with the kdis on reviewing how to recommend something to someone else and also how to use the verb estar to say something is hot or cold. What I liked most about it though is that my second year kids have been learning about Tex Mex food and how it differs in Texas from Mexico. It's has been a wonderful opportunity for the kids to see how Mexican culture and the Spanish language exist in the United States. However, I felt like a lot of the students did not see the hispanic culture in other parts of the US so I asked kids where they thought the menu was from (it says Austin right on it) and they immediately assumed Austin, TX. This lead me straight into an opportunity to talk about how even in a small town such as Austin, MN (pop ~ 8,000) Spanish is used on a daily basis because the hispanic population is so large. This activity was just a really easy way to transition from grammar to practical application.