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Unit 1
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Unit Plan
Estimated time:
1 session.
Topic:
La población latinoamericana.
MAPA CULTURAL
Estimated time:
1 session.
Writing:
Un personaje interesante.
Estimated time:
1 session.
Writing:
Un álbum de fotos de tu vida.
ESCRITURA
PROYECTO
Estimated time:
1 session.
Text:
Personajes famosos.
Functions & forms:
•
Useful expressions used to
organize a text, to give instructions,
to express personal likes and
interests, to ask for confirmation,
and to express wishes.
•
Review of known vocabulary for
personal information and family
relationships, and for describing
people.
Las tareas/Antes de empezar
Estimated time:
5 sessions.
Text:
Una argentina famosa.
Functions & forms:
•
To describe people.
•
Physical characteristics and
personality traits.
•
The verbs
ser
and
estar
.
•
Comparisons and superlatives.
Culture:
•
Mafalda
.
•
Las tiras cómicas.
•
Don Quijote.
Reading:
Una historieta de detectives.
DESAFÍO 1
Estimated time:
5 sessions.
Text:
Retratos de familia.
Functions & forms:
•
To talk about past actions.
•
Family relationships and marital
status.
•
The imperfect and the past
progressive tenses.
•
To express ownership.
Culture:
•
Los pintores de la corte.
•
Estereotipos familiares.
•
Fiestas familiares.
Reading:
Una breve biografía.
Frida Kahlo.
DESAFÍO 2
Estimated time:
6 sessions.
Text:
Flor de leyendas.
Functions & forms:
•
To narrate and describe in the past.
•
Biographies. Life stages and events,
rites and celebrations, and religions.
•
The preterite and the imperfect
tenses.
•
Time expressions to narrate in
the past.
Culture:
•
Las leyendas tradicionales.
•
Cuando era puertorriqueña.
•
Leyendas de Guatemala
.
Reading:
Los hermanos Ayar: una
leyenda sobre el origen del imperio inca.
DESAFÍO 3
Estimated time:
1 session.
Todo junto:
Review of
Desafíos 1–3.
Tu desafío:
•
Desafío A:
Write and draw a comic
strip.
•
Desafío B:
Describe a painting and
give information about the artist.
•
Desafío C:
Invent and write a legend.
Para terminar
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