Carol-Jean McGreevy-Morales Multimedia in Language Teaching Project Claire Bradin Siskin, Instructor June 29, 2001

Overview of El Tiempo Exercise

Target Group: Spanish I students

Purpose:

• To coordinate with Juntos I, Chapter 5 (?), where students learn expressions for weather and clothing. They have already learned how to talk about going to different places.
• To have students work with images on the computer in the language lab and create sentences in the target language.
• To have students work cooperatively in pairs to compare the sentences they have produced and then to choose the best two sentences of those they have created.
• To have students present the pair's best two sentences orally to the entire class or to several other groups. Students could then decide the best of those sentences.

Time Required for Exercise: Probably 10 minutes

Drawbacks and solutions: Students may have difficulties moving the images on the screen to achieve the order they wish for their sentences. In that case, students may simply write the sentences (on paper or on the computer), or they may print the images and cut them apart, then placing them in the order they wish to create.
Perhaps the computers are not working, in which case the teacher Would revert to a backup plan.

Cautions: This exercise needs to be further refined before being presented to the class. Additional images could be added.

El Tiempo

Create sentences in Spanish. First put the images in the order you wish to create sentences. (Try for three images for each sentence.)..

Then write a sentence below each series of images. Begin each sentence with: Cuando hace; then tell what you wear; then tell where you go or what you do. For example: Cuando hace calor, llevo los lentes de sol y voy a la playa Your partner and you will then share with each other in Spanish the sentences you have created and choose the be two sentences to present to the class orally.