SANTILLANA USA - Descubre Teacher Guide C Sampler 2018

Nos conocemos | 13 Predict INTERPRETIVE • Explain to students that they will read two dialogues. Have them turn to page 14 and quickly scan the illustrations. Then ask them what they think the dialogues are about, according to what they see. Elicit ideas by referring students to this unit’s Big Idea. Write students’ ideas on the board and do not erase them until you confirm predictions after the reading. • Have students again say who the characters on pages 12–13 are. Ask them where they think Tomás is from. Elicit that he might be from México. Have students discuss whether they think Tomás will be in the dialogues or not. Close INTERPRETIVE Total Physical Response Have students build a Character Poster using poster board, adhesive tape, and the Character Cutouts. Then ask students to pick up a particular character and tape it to the poster. Model as necessary. Toma a Anna. Ponla en el cartel. Take Anna. Place her on the poster. Toma a Charlie. Ponlo en el cartel. Take Charlie. Place him on the poster. Language in Context • Read the dialogue on page 12 to students as they follow along. Then have students chorally repeat the dialogue after you. You may wish to have them close their books and repeat the dialogue after you two or three times before they open their books again as you have them repeat one more time. Role-Play Have volunteers form groups of two or four to role-play the dialogue. • Read aloud the introductions on page 13, except for the incomplete one. Have volunteers read the introductions aloud again. Then point to yourself and say: Yo soy el señor/la señora/la señorita _____ [your name]. I’m Mr./Mrs./Ms. _____. • Next, have students look at the incomplete introduction on page 13 and repeat the pattern, Yo soy _____, filling in their name. Have all students in the class introduce themselves individually. Day 1 13 Yo soy... Yo soy Anna. Yo soy Tomás. Yo soy Charlie. El Zócalo Conversa. Yo soy... Standards National Communication: 1.1–1.3 Cultures: 2.1 Connections: 3.1 27